Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
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Founded in 1854, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a 343-acre (1.39 km²) cemetery located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The entrance and the grounds run along a part of chemin Côte-des-Neiges and up the slopes of Mount Royal. The cemetery shares the mountain with the predominantly English-speaking and originally Protestant burial ground, the Mount Royal Cemetery.
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is the largest cemetery in Canada. Its "La Pietà Mausoleum" contains a life-sized marble reproduction of Michelangelo's Pietà sculpture located in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
The cemetery was originally open only to Roman Catholics; it is now open to any Christian, though it continues to be a Catholic institution and serve a primarily Catholic community. Primarily the internment grounds for French Canadians, as they have almost exclusively been members of the Roman Catholic faith, the cemetery is the final resting place for a number of former mayors of the city of Montreal plus other prominent persons including:
- Jacques Augur (1901-1977), actor, comedian
- Raoul Barré (1874-1932), cartoonist
- Jean-Louis Beaudry (1809-1886), entrepreneur, politician
- Maurice Beaupré (1907-1984), actor
- Rolland Bédard (1913-1987), actor
- Richard Blass (1946-1975), gangster, killer, mass murderer
- Charlotte Boisjoli (1923-2001), writer, actress
- Henri Bourassa (1868-1952), publisher
- Robert Bourassa (1933-1996), Premier of Quebec
- Dino Bravo (1948-1993), WWF wrestler
- Sir Georges-Étienne Cartier (1814-1873), statesman
- Thérèse Forget Casgrain (1896-1981), feminist, reformer and stateswoman
- Lorne Chabot (1900-1946), NHL ice-hockey goalie
- Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (1840-1898), lawyer, publisher, politician
- Ernest Cormier ( 1885-1980 ), architect
- Alexandre-Maurice Delisle (1810-1880), businessman, statesman
- Gonzalve Doutre (1842-1880), lawyer, scholar, president of the Institut Canadien
- Jean Drapeau (1916-1999), flamboyant mayor of Montreal
- Lewis Thomas Drummond (1813-1882), jurist, politician
- Ludger Duvernay (1799-1852), founder of Quebec's Société St-Jean-Baptiste
- Marcel Faribault (1908-1972), notary and legislative adviser
- Amédée-Emmanuel Forget (1847-1923), Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan
- Louis-Joseph Forget (1853-1911), financier and president of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
- Sir Rodolphe Forget (1861-1919), financier, statesman, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
- Jean Gascon (1921-1988), stage and film actor/director
- Conrad Gauthier (1886-1964), singer/songwriter
- Sir Lomer Gouin, (1861-1929), Lieutenant-Governor and Premier of Quebec
- Robert Gravel (1945-1996), actor
- Joseph Guibord (1809-1869), patriote, buried through a court order in the Guibord case.
- Doug Harvey (1924-1989), ice-hockey Hall of Fame defenceman
- Camillien Houde (1889-1958), statesman
- Harry Hyland (1889-1969), Hall of Fame ice-hockey player
- Henri Julien (1852-1908), lithographer, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, reporter
- Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1807-1864), jurist, politician
- Alfred Laliberté (1878-1953), sculptor
- Pierre Laporte (1921-1970), statesman assassinated by FLQ terrorists
- René Lecavalier (1907-1999), sports commentator
- Marc Lépine (1964-1989), mass murderer
- J. Louis Lévesque (1911-1994) stockbroker, philanthropist, horse racing builder
- Nick Auf der Maur (1942-1998), journalist, politician
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868), journalist, statesman
- Honoré Mercier (1840-1894), statesman
- Émile Nelligan (1879-1941), poet
- Robert Nelson (1794-1873), medical practitioner, statesman
- John Ostell (1813-1892), architect
- Gédéon Ouimet (1823-1905), lawyer, politician, Premier of the Province of Quebec
- Alice Poznanska-Parizeau (1930-1990), writer
- Pierre Péladeau (1925-1997), businessman, media mogul
- Maurice Richard (1921-2000), Hall of Fame ice-hockey player
- Yvon Robert, (1914-1971), professional wrestler
- Jean "Johnny" Rougeau (1929-1983), professional wrestler
- Jeanne Sauvé (1922-1993), politician and Governor-General of Canada
- Lord Thomas George Shaughnessy, (1853-1923), President of CPR
- Mary Travers, "La Bolduc" (1894-1941), singer
- Charles Wilson (1808-1877), businessman, mayor of Montreal
- Marcellin Wilson (1859-1940), financier, philanthropist, statesman
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