Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery

at 4601, chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal , H3V 1E7 Canada

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Description

Founded in 1854, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a 343acre cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The entrance and the grounds run along a part of Côte-des-Neiges road and up the slopes of Mount Royal. Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Canada and the third-largest in North America.History and descriptionCreated on property purchased from Dr. Pierre Beaubien, the new cemetery was a response to growing demand at a time when the old Saint-Antoine Cemetery (near the present Dominion Square) had become too small to serve Montreal’s rapidly increasing population. Founded in 1854 as a garden cemetery in the French style, it was designed landscape architect Henri-Maurice Perreault, who studied rural cemeteries in Boston and New York. On May 29, 1855, thirty-five year old Jane Gilroy McCready, wife of Thomas McCready, then a Montreal municipal councilor, was the first person to be buried in the new cemetery.Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is the largest cemetery in Canada with more than 55 kilometres of lanes and one million people interred. The Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery site has over 65,000 monuments and 71 family vaults.The cemetery originally served Roman Catholics and rural French Canadians. It is now open to any Christian, though it continues to be a Catholic institution and serve a primarily Catholic community. (There are also two Jewish cemeteries on Mont Royale.)Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Orthodox Greek, Polish, Ukrainian and Huron are also represented, indicated in many instances by ethnic motifs on gravestones. The cemetery shares the mountain with the predominantly English-speaking and originally Protestant adjacent burial ground, the Mount Royal Cemetery. These two abutting cemeteries on the slopes of Mount Royal contain a total of 1.5 million burials.

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Summary

Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery is Montreal based place and this enity listed in Cemetery category. Located at 4601, chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges QC H3V 1E7. Contact phone number of Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery: (514) 566-1361