Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
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 interment 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
- Maurice Beaupré (1907-1984), actor
- Rolland Bédard (1913-1987), actor
- Richard Blass (1946-1975), gangster, killer, mass murderer
- Charlotte Boisjoli (1923-2001), writer, actress
- Robert Bourassa (1933-1996), Premier of Quebec
- Dino Bravo (1948-1993), WWF wrestler
- Sir Georges-Étienne Cartier (1814-1873), statesman
- Lorne Chabot (1900-1946), NHL ice-hockey goalie
- Jean Drapeau (1916-1999), flamboyant mayor of Montreal
- Ludger Duvernay (1799-1852), founder of Quebec's Société St-Jean-Baptiste
- Jean Gascon (1921-1988), stage and film actor/director
- Conrad Gauthier (1886-1964), singer/songwriter
- Robert Gravel (1945-1996), actor
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mary Travers, "La Bolduc" (1894-1941), singer
- See also: List of famous cemeteries
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