List of cemeteries in Canada
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This is a list of cemeteries in Canada, posted by province or territory.
Alberta
[edit]- Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer – George Allen
- Beechmount Cemetery, Edmonton – Hank Smith
- Blackfoot Crossing Cemetery, Cluny – Crowfoot
- Calgary Union Cemetery, Calgary – Peter Lougheed, Herbert Greenfield, Red Dutton, Dutch Gainor
- Edmonton Municipal Cemetery, Edmonton – Howard Blatchford, Kenny Blatchford, Ambrose Bury, Dan Knott, John W. Leedy, Sidney Parsons, William Short, Richard Gavin Reid Wop May
- Elnora Cemetery, Elnora – Alexander Picton Brereton
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Edmonton. Burial site for Edmonton Oilers founder William "Wild Bill" Hunter, and Canadian Football League players Johnny Bright and Rollie Miles.
- Lougheed Cemetery, Lougheed – Cecil John Kinross
- Okotoks Cemetery, Okotoks – Max Bell
- Queens Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Calgary – Hank Bassen, Owen Hart
- Rosehill Cemetery, Edmonton – Don Getty
- St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Cochrane – Frank McCool
- St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Chipman – Wasyl Eleniak
- Temple Hill (Warner County, Alberta), cemetery owned by the town of Raymond
- Viking Cemetery – Viking – Clem Loughlin
British Columbia
[edit]- Burrard Cemetery, North Vancouver – Chief Dan George
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Burnaby) – William Aberhart, Fred Hume, Amby Moran
- Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster – Raymond Burr, Cyrus Wesley Peck
- Kelowna Municipal Cemetery, Kelowna – Bill Bennett, W. A. C. Bennett, Ray Powell
- Mountain View Cemetery. The oldest cemetery in the city of Vancouver, it is the resting place of 145,000 people, including numerous notable figures in the city's history.
- Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby – Tommy Burns, Michael Cuccione, Miles Mander, Charles Merritt, Roy Conacher, Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
- Port Coquitlam Municipal Cemetery, Port Coquitlam – Terry Fox
- Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. Final resting place of Sir James Douglas, Emily Carr, Billy Barker and Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the "Hanging Judge".
- Jewish Cemetery of Victoria
- Columbia Riverview Cemetery, Trail
- Chilliwack Cemeteries, Chilliwack
- Langley Lawn Cemetery, Langley
- Hatley Memorial Gardens, Colwood
- Westminster Abbey Cemetery, Mission
- Surrey Centre Cemetery, Cloverdale
- Ladysmith Cemetery, Ladysmith
- Coldstream Municipal Cemetery, Coldstream
- Nanaimo Chinese Cemetery, Nanaimo
Manitoba
[edit]- All Saints Cemetery, Winnipeg – Nicholas Mickoski
- Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg
- Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg – Joe Cooper, Dufferin Roblin
- Glen Eden Memorial Gardens, West St. Paul, Manitoba - Murray Sinclair
- Greenwood Cemetery, Carman – Jim McFadden
- Hillside Cemetery, Portage la Prairie – Robert F. Dodd, Ross King, Bryan Hextall
- Saint Boniface Cathedral Cemetery, Winnipeg. Burial site of Louis Riel. Oldest graveyard in Western Canada.
- St. Vital Cemetery, Winnipeg – Eddie Mazur
- Green Acres Funeral Home and Cemetery, Navin, Manitoba
New Brunswick
[edit]- Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John – Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, Ward Chipman, Amos Edwin Botsford
- Forest Hill Cemetery, Fredericton – Bliss Carman, Alden Nowlan, Charles Dow Richards, Charles G. D. Roberts
- Greenwood Cemetery, Hartland – Richard Hatfield
- St. Albans Cemetery, Bathurst – Herman James Good
Newfoundland and Labrador
[edit]- Anglican Burial Ground, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's – James Pearl
- General Protestant Cemetery, St. John's – Isabella Whiteford Rogerson
Northwest Territories
[edit]- Back Bay Cemetery, Yellowknife
Nova Scotia
[edit]- Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, Viola Desmond
- Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS Titanic sinking.
- Garrison Cemetery, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, The oldest English tomb stone in all of Canada, 1720 CE; though the cemetery was est. 1605.
- Gates of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville – Marty Barry, Denny Doherty, Angus L. Macdonald, Don Messer, Dave Trottier
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada
- Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax. Nineteen victims of the sinking of RMS Titanic are buried here.
- Nictaux Community Centre Cemetery, Nictaux, The oldest cemetery in Nictaux, with soldiers from the Siege of Quebec
- Old Burying Ground, Halifax – Richard Smith
Ontario
[edit]- African Cemetery, Essex – Delos Rogest Davis
- Assumption Catholic Cemetery, Mississauga – Joe Primeau, Marc Diab
- Aurora Cemetery, Aurora – John W. Bowser
- Avondale Cemetery, Stratford – Patrick Crean, Dolly Dolson, William Hutt, Richard Manuel and, Richard Jean Monette
- Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa – Robert Borden, Tommy Douglas, Sandford Fleming, Andrew McNaughton
- Beechwood Cemetery, Vaughan – Eric Clavering
- Belleville Cemetery, Belleville – Susanna Moodie, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Davie Kerr, Albert Holway
- Burlington Memorial Gardens, Burlington – Leslie Mahaffy
- Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston – Alexander Campbell, John A. Macdonald
- Chatham-Kent, nearby, the Hutberg, God's Acre burial ground of the Christian Munsee New Fairfield/Moraviantown
- Colborne Union Cemetery, Colborne – Charles Smith Rutherford
- Dixie Union Chapel and Cemetery, Mississauga – Thomas Laird Kennedy
- Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls – Laura Secord, Karel Soucek
- Elmira Mennonite Cemetery, Elmira – Daniel Snyder
- Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira – Waldo Von Erich
- Erin Cemetery, Erin – Tom Connors
- Fairview Cemetery, Listowel – George Hay, Andrew Edward McKeever
- Fairview Cemetery, Niagara Falls – Ralph Bowman, Bill Cupolo
- Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Toronto – Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Morden Neilson, Henry Pellatt, Domenic Troiano
- Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, London – Charley Fox
- Glendale Memorial Gardens, Toronto – Barry Ashbee, Turk Broda
- Greenwood Cemetery, Owen Sound – Billy Bishop, Lela Brooks, David Vivian Currie, Thomas William Holmes and, Harry Lumley
- Greenwood Cemetery, Sault Ste. Marie – Wayne Maki
- Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton. The traditional burial site of the mayors of Hamilton.
- Heavenly Rest Catholic Cemetery, Windsor – Charles Leo Nelligan, Andy Bellemer, Real Chevrefils, Marcel Pronovost
- Highland Park Cemetery, Peterborough – Les Ascott, Paul O'Sullivan
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Brantford – Bryan Fogarty
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Markham – Philip Francis Pocock, Gerald Emmett Carter, Aloysius Ambrozic, Marshall McLuhan, Jack Tunney, Carl Brewer , Charles Sauriol, Milt Dunnell, Domenic Racco, Emanuel Jaques
- Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, Burlington – Victor Copps, Sir Allan Napier MacNab, John McGovern (VC), Jim Quondamatteo , Ralph Sazio, Papalia crime family , Musitano crime family, Paul Francis Reding
- Keewaywin Cemetery, Kenora – Norval Morrisseau
- King City Cemetery, King City – Rod Smylie
- Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia – Alexander Mackenzie
- Lakeview Cemetery, Thorold – Lorne Duguid
- Laurel Hill Cemetery, Caledon – Keith McCreary
- Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough – Frank Buckland, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Iva Campbell Fallis
- Maple Cemetery, Vaughan – Paisley Maxwell
- Marymount Catholic Cemetery, Guelph – Lou Fontinato
- McMichael Art Collection Burial Grounds, Vaughan – A. J. Casson, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley, Franklin Carmichael
- Mohawk Chapel Cemetery, Brantford – Joseph Brant
- Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener – Pvt. Buckam Singh, Fr. David Bauer
- Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto. The burial site for Margaret Anglin, Morley Callaghan, King Clancy.
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Those interred there include Timothy Eaton, Frederick Banting, Glenn Gould, William Lyon Mackenzie King.
- Necropolis Cemetery, in Toronto. (Toronto Necropolis) – Ned Hanlan, William Lyon Mackenzie, George A. Romero
- Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. Yousuf Karsh, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Aurèle Joliat.
- Oshawa Union Cemetery, Oshawa – Gordon Daniel Conant, Ross Lowe and, Samuel McLaughlin
- Pardes Chaim Cemetery, Vaughan – Cayle Chernin, Adam Litovitz, Max Haines
- Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Vaughan – Harvey Atkin, Corey Haim, Al Waxman, Harry Rasky, Ed Mirvish. Barbara Frum, Marvin Goldhar, Phyllis Gotlieb
- Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto – Jeff Healey, Lou Marsh, Conn Smythe, Stanley Frolick, Jack Marks
- Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa – George G. Blackburn, George Brancato, Gordie Bruce, Harry Connor, Cy Denneny
- Pine Hills Cemetery, Toronto – John McLellan, Nels Stewart, Joseph Harcourt Tombs, Roy Worters and, Peter Zezel
- Pleasantview Memorial Gardens, Thorold – Kristen French
- Prospect Cemetery, Toronto – Colin Fraser Barron, Wes Cutler, Jake Forbes, JEH MacDonald and, Walter Leigh Rayfield
- Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, Vaughan – Tony Rosato
- Queenston Heights Monument, Niagara-on-the-Lake – Sir Isaac Brock
- Resurrection Catholic Cemetery, Whitby – John McCormack, Mickey Roach , Billy Taylor
- Riverside Cemetery, Lindsay – Leslie Frost, Ray Timgren, Dennis Buckley
- Riverside Cemetery, Toronto – Rob Ford, Ed Litzenberger
- Sacred Heart Cemetery, North Bay – Dionne Quintuplets
- Sanctuary Park Cemetery, Toronto – Jimmy Fowler, Victor Kugler, Frederick George Topham
- Stouffville Cemetery, Stouffville – Kevin O'Shea
- St. Andrew's West Cemetery, Cornwall – John Sandfield Macdonald
- St. Columba's Cemetery, Pembroke – Frank Nighbor, Bishops for the Diocese of Pembroke
- St. Mark's Cemetery, Port Hope – Vincent Massey
- St. Mary's Cemetery, St. Marys – Arthur Meighen
- St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Barrie – Dan Maloney
- St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Fallowfield- Murray Costello
- St. Patrick's Cemetery, Lucan – Bridget Donnelly
- St. Thomas Cemetery, St. Thomas – Mitchell Hepburn
- St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery, Oakville – Gregory Hines, Negrita Jayde, Ulas Samchuk, Roman Danylak
- Thornbury-Clarksburg Union Cemetery, Thornbury – Cecil Dillon
- Thornton Cemetery, Oshawa, Ontario - Dale Hawerchuk
- Timmins Memorial Cemetery, Timmins – Bill Barilko, Armand Delmonte
- Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery, Oakville – Jimmy Tapp
- Victoria Lawn Cemetery, St. Catharines – Pete Neumann, Tammy Homolka, Arthur Schmon, William Hamilton Merritt
- West Korah Cemetery, Sault Ste. Marie – William Merrifield
- Willowbank Cemetery, Gananoque – Mary Wiseman See
- Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener – John Metz Schneider, Babe Siebert, George Hainsworth, Bobby Kuntz, Bobby Bauer
- Woodland Cemetery, London – Frank Colman, George Prodgers
- Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph – George A. Drew
- York Cemetery, in Toronto. The burial site of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and her husband Captain Kolikovsky, and Tim Horton.
- List of cemeteries in York Region
Quebec
[edit]- Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal – John Abbott, Frank Calder, John Molson, Howie Morenz, Mordecai Richler
- National Field of Honour, Pointe-Claire, an official veteran's cemetery
- Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, (formerly Sainte-Foy) Quebec City. Politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and Jean Lesage.
- Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal. Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harvey, Pierre Laporte.
- Mount Hermon Cemetery, (formerly Sillery) Sillery Heritage Site, Quebec City. There are more than 70,000 interments, including some who perished on the Empress of Ireland. Also: Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, Frank Carrel, Joseph Morrin, Bartholomew Gugy, and William Wood. Mount Hermon Cemetery National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places.
- St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery, Compton – Louis St. Laurent
Saskatchewan
[edit]- Estevan City Cemetery, Estevan
- Hillcrest Cemetery, Weyburn
- Moose Jaw City Cemetery, Moose Jaw
- Nutana Pioneer Cemetery, Saskatoon
- Prince Albert Memorial Gardens, Prince Albert
- Rainton Cemetery, Weyburn
- Regina Memorial Gardens, Regina
- Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery, Regina
- Rosedale Cemetery, Moose Jaw
- South Hill Cemetery, Prince Albert
- Stoughton Cemetery, Stoughton
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon
- Yorkton City Cemetery, Yorkton
- Alingly Cemetery ~ Spruce Home, Saskatchewan