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. 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see Mount Royal (disambiguation). ... This article needs cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Front entrance, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Founded in 1854, Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a 343-acre (1. ...

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. Victoria Cross medal, ribbon, and bar. ...

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: The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...

• Sir John Abbott (1821-1893), Prime Minister of Canada
• Hugh Allan (1810-1882), financier and shipping magnate
• H. Montagu Allan (1860-1951), businessman, Hockey Hall of Fame member
• Richard Bladworth Angus (1831-1922), banker
• Robert Mitchell Ballantyne (1859-1929), businessman
• William Thomas Benson (1824-1885), businessman, politician
• Frank Calder (1877-1943), National Hockey League executive
• George Caverhill (1858-1937), businessman
• Sir Arthur Currie (1875-1933), First World War military commander, educator
• J. William Dawson (1820-1899), scientist, educator
• George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901), scientist
• Joseph Doutre (1825-1886), lawyer, writer, major adversary of Quebec Catholicism
• William Dow (1800-1868), brewer and businessman
• George Alexander Drummond (1829-1910), entrepreneur
• Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914), author, a.k.a. "Sui Sin Far"
• Charles Edward Frosst (1867-1948), pharmaceuticals manufacturer
• Sir Alexander Galt (1817-1893), businessman, statesman
• Horatio Gates (1777-1834), businessman, statesman
• Andrew Frederick Gault (1833-1903), merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist
• Samuel Gerrard (1767-1857), businessman
• Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan (1848-1938), newspaper publisher
• Charles Melville Hays (1856-1912), Grand Trunk Railway executive and Titanic victim
• Charles Heavysege (1816-1876), author, poet
• Alexander Henderson (1831-1913), merchant and photographer
• Herbert Samuel Holt (1856-1941), financier
• Charles Rudolph Hosmer (1851-1927), miller
• C. D. Howe (1886-1960), American-born politician and engineer
• Anna Leonowens (1834-1915), Governess at the Court of Siam, founder of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
• William C. Macdonald (1831-1917), tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
• Dugald Lorn MacDougall (1811-1885), stockbroker, investor
• Allan McCarthy (1957-1995), musician, Men Without Hats
• John Wilson McConnell (1877-1963), publisher, philanthropist
• David Ross McCord (1844-1930), lawyer, philanthropic founder of the McCord Museum
• William King McCord (1803-1858), jurist, philanthropist
• Peter McGill (1789-1860), businessman, municipal politician
• Duncan McIntyre (1834-1894), businessman
• Hugh Mackay (1832-1890), businessman
• Robert Mackay (1840-1916), businessman, statesman
• Robert Meighen (1837-1911), businessman
• Shadrach Minkins (1815?-1875), American-born fugitive slave rescued from federal custody in Boston in 1851.
• Hartland Molson (1907-2002), brewing magnate, WW II fighter pilot, statesman
• John Molson (1763-1836), brewing tycoon
• Howie Morenz (1902-1937), Hall of Fame ice hockey player
• Henry Morgan (1819-1893), opened first department store in Canada
• Arthur Deane Nesbitt (1910-1978), decorated soldier of WWII, stockbroker
• Arthur J. Nesbitt (1880-1954), cofounder of Nesbitt Thomson & Co. and Power Corporation of Canada
• J. Aird Nesbitt (1907-1985), owner/operator of Ogilvy's department store in Montreal
• Alexander Walker Ogilvie (1829-1902), miller, statesman
• William Watson Ogilvie (1835-1900) miller
• Frank L. Packard (1877-1942), mystery writer
• John Redpath (1796-1869), contractor, built the first sugar refinery in Canada
• Robert Reford (1831-1913), entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951), shipping executive, artist, photographer
• Mordecai Richler (1931-2001), author
• James Ross (1848-1913), railway engineer, businessman, philanthropist
• Philip Simpson Ross (1827-1907), founder of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec
• Anne Savage (1896-1971), painter and art teacher
• F. R. Scott (1899-1985), scholar
• Denis Stairs (1889-1980), Chairman, Montreal Engineering Co.
• George Washington Stephens (1832-1904), businessman, lawyer, politician, philanthropist
• Harrison Stephens (1801-1881), American-born merchant
• David Thompson (1770-1857), surveyor and explorer
• David Torrance (1805-1876), merchant, banker
• John Torrance (1786-1870), merchant, shipper
• Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead(Unknown-1954), the man who sucker punched Harry Houdini who died of the injury.
• William Watson (c.1795-1867), miller, businessman, politician
• Thomas Workman (1813-1889), businessman, politician, philanthropist
• William Workman (1807-1878), businessman and municipal politician
• John Young, (1811-1878), entrepreneur, statesman
• Walter P. Zeller (1890-1957), founder of Zellers.

Several small Jewish cemeteries are also located in or nearby Mount Royal Cemetery: Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Spanish and Portuguese-Shearith Israel and Temple Emanuel Cemetery [1]. The Honourable Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC , QC , KCMG , BCL , DCL (March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893) was the third Prime Minister of Canada from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892. ... Sir Hugh Allan Sir Hugh Allan (September 29, 1810 – December 9, 1882) was a Scottish-born Canadian financier and shipowner. ... H. Montagu Allan (October 13, 1860 - September 26, 1951) was a Canadian banker, ship owner, and a sportsman who donated the Allan Cup, the trophy symbolic of mens amateur ice hockey supremacy in Canada. ... Richard B. Angus, circa 1891 Richard Bladworth Angus (28 May 1831 – 17 September 1922) was a Scottish – born Canadian financier, banker and philanthropist. ... Frank Calder (November 17, 1877-February 4, 1943) was the first NHL President (1917-1943). ... General Sir Arthur William Currie (December 5, 1875 - November 30, 1933) was the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps on the Western Front during World War I and one of the most successful Allied generals of the war and in Canadian history. ... Sir John William Dawson (October 30, 1820 – November 20, 1899), was a Canadian geologist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. ... (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada PA-26889) George Mercer Dawson (August 1, 1849 – March 2, 1901) was a Canadian scientist and surveyor. ... As a Christian ecclesiastical term, Catholic - from the Greek adjective , meaning general or universal[1] - is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows: ~Church, (originally) whole body of Christians; ~, belonging to or in accord with (a) this, (b) the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or... William Dow was the owner of a brewing company and a financier in Montreal. ... Sir George Alexander Drummond, KCMG, CVO (11 October 1829 – 2 February 1910) was a Scottish-Canadian businessman and senator. ... Edith Maude Eaton, born March 15, 1865 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England - died April 7, 1914 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was an author best known under the Chinese pseudonym, Sui Sin Far. ... Charles Edward Frosst (1867–1948) was a Canadian businessman who founded the pharmaceutical company Charles E. Frosst & Co. ... Alexander Tilloch Galt Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt (September 6, 1822-September 19, 1911) was an English-born Canadian politician, and a father of Canadian Confederation. ... Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan of Huntingdon (born July 18, 1848 - died January 28, 1938) was a Canadian publisher of Scots-Quebec ancestry. ... Charles Melville Hays, sometimes spelled Hayes, (May 16, 1856 – April 15, 1912) was a railway official most famous for his role as president of the Grand Trunk Railway System. ... 1885 map The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) was a historic railway system which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the American states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. ... RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that collided with an iceberg and sank in 1912. ... Sir Herbert Samuel Holt (February 12, 1856 - September 29, 1941) was an Irish-born Canadian civil engineer who became a businessman, banker, and corporate director. ... The Right Honourable Clarence Decatur Howe (January 15, 1886 - December 31, 1960) was a leading Canadian politician. ... Anna Leonowens (November, 1831 - January 19, 1915) is chiefly famous for being the British governess portrayed in the musical The King and I. The play, based on adaptations of her factually slipshod memoirs, provides a fictionalised look at her life in the royal court of Siam (present-day Thailand). ... Sir William C. Macdonald (born February 10, 1831 - died June 4, 1917) was a Scots-Quebecer tobacco manufacturer and major education philanthropist in Canada. ... Allan McCarthy (July 11, 1957 - August 11, 1995) was a Canadian musician born in Montreal, Quebec who became part of the group Men Without Hats. ... Men Without Hats are a Canadian pop group from Montreal, Quebec who were popular in the early 1980s. ... John Wilson McConnell (July 1, 1877 - November 6, 1963) was an Anglo-Quebecer businessman, newspaper publisher, humanitarian, and the most significant philanthropist in the history of the Province of Quebec, Canada. ... The epyonomous museum founded by David McCord. ... The McCord Museum (in French, Musée McCord) is a public research and teaching museum dedicated to the preservation, study, diffusion, and appreciation of Canadian history. ... Peter McGill (August 1789 - September 28, 1860) was a Scotch-Québécois businessman who served as mayor of Montreal, Quebec from 1840 to 1842. ... Duncan McIntyre ( 23 December 1834 – 13 June 1894) was a Scots-Quebecer businessman noted for his participation in the Canadian Pacific Railway syndicate of 1880 and as a founder of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. ... The Hon. ... Shadrach Minkins (1814? - December 13, 1875) was an African American fugitive slave. ... The Honourable Senator Hartland de Montarville Molson OBE , OC , DCL , CA (May 29, 1907 - September 28, 2002) was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, and a member of the prominent Molson family of brewers. ... John Molson (December 28, 1763 – January 11, 1836) was an Anglo-Quebecer who was a major brewer and entrepreneur in Canada, starting the Molson Brewing Company. ... Howard William Howie Morenz also nicknamed the Mitchell Meteor (June 21, 1902-March 8, 1937 in Mitchell, Ontario, Canada) was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. ... Henry Morgan (born November 14, 1819 - died December 12, 1893) was a Scots-Quebecer department store pioneer in Canada. ... Arthur Deane Nesbitt (November 16, 1910 - February 22, 1978) was a Canadian businessman and a decorated pilot and Wing Commander in World War II. Deane Nesbitt was born in Westmount, Quebec, the son of the very successful stock broker and co-founder of Nesbitt, Thomson and Company, Arthur James Nesbitt. ... Arthur James Nesbitt (August 19, 1880 - October 24, 1954) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who was a cofounder of Nesbitt, Thomson and Company stockbrokerage and the Power Corporation of Canada. ... Power Corporation is a major Canadian company with interests in a number of industries, such as media, pulp and paper, and finance. ... James Aird Nesbitt (March, c. ... Ogilvy (La Maison Ogilvy in French), also known as Ogilvys, is a prominent department store in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where its store on Saint Catherine Street is a retail landmark. ... The Honourable Alexander Walker Ogilvie (May 7, 1829 – March 31, 1902) was a Canadian politician. ... Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. ... John Redpath (1796–March 5, 1869) was a Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist who helped pioneer the industrial movement that made Montreal, Quebec the largest and most prosperous city in Canada. ... Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. ... Anne Savage, born July 27, 1896 – died March 25, 1971, was a Canadian painter and art teacher. ... Francis Reginald Scott (Frank Scott, F.R. Scott) (August 1, 1899 - January 30, 1985) was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. ... David Thompson (April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857), was an English-Canadian map-maker and explorer. ... Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead (died 1954) is the man who sucker-punched magician Harry Houdini in the stomach on October 22, 1926. ... Thomas Workman (June 17, 1813 – October 9, 1889) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. ... William Workman (May, 1807 – February 23, 1878) was an Irish-born Canadian businessman and municipal politican. ... Walter Philip Zeller (b. ... Zellers Inc. ...

See also

• List of famous cemeteries
• Mount Royal Park