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Mount Royal Cemetery


 

Opened in 1852, Mount Royal Cemetery is a 165-acre (668 000 m²) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The burial ground shares the mountain with the much larger and predominantly French-Canadian Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges.

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1852 - Mount Royal - Montreal, Quebec - Canada - French-Canadian - Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges

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Mount Royal Cemetery contains more than 162,000 residents and is the final resting place for a number of notable Canadians. It includes a veterans section with several soldiers who were awarded the British Empire's highest military honour, the Victoria Cross. In 1901 the Mount Royal Cemetery Company established the first crematorium in Canada.

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Historically used by members of the English-speaking community and those of Protestant faiths, the cemetery is now non-sectarian and open to all. A few of the prominent people interred in the cemetery are:

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English-speaking - Protestant

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