List of cemeteries in Canada
This is a list of cemeteries in Canada, posted by province or territory.
Alberta
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta. Burial site for Edmonton Oilers founder William "Wild Bill" Hunter, and Canadian Football League players Johnny Bright and Rollie Miles.
- Temple Hill (Warner County, Alberta), cemetery owned by the town of Raymond
British Columbia
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Burnaby)
- 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.
- Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. Final resting place of Sir James Douglas, Emily Carr, Billy Barker and Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the "Hanging Judge".
Manitoba
- St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Burial site of Louis Riel. Oldest graveyard in Western Canada.
New Brunswick
- Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John. Final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley.
Northwest Territories
- Back Bay Cemetery
Nova Scotia
- Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, amongst others.
- Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS Titanic sinking.
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 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.
- Old Burying Ground, Halifax
Ontario
- Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The burial site includes Sir Robert Borden, Tommy Douglas, Gen. Andrew McNaughton
- Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston. Final resting place of Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Alexander Campbell
- Chatham-Kent, nearby, the Hutberg, God's Acre burial ground of the Christian Munsee New Fairfield/Moraviantown
- Hamilton Cemetery, in Hamilton. The traditional burial site of the mayors of Hamilton.
- Hope Cemetery, Ottawa.
- Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto. The burial site for Margaret Anglin, Morley Callaghan, and King Clancy, amongst others.
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Those interred here include Timothy Eaton, Frederick Banting, Glenn Gould, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and others.
- Necropolis Cemetery, in Toronto. (Toronto Necropolis). The burial site of William Lyon Mackenzie, Ned Hanlan, and others. Monument to Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews.
- Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. Interments here include Yousuf Karsh, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Aurèle Joliat.
- Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto. The final resting place of Harold Ballard, Conn Smythe, John Swietlinski, amongst others.
- York Cemetery, in Toronto. The burial site of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and her husband Captain Kolikovsky, Tim Horton and others.
Quebec
- Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. Final resting place for Sui Sin Far, Anna Leonowens, John Abbott, Mordecai Richler, Sir Arthur Currie, Molson family members, and others.
- National Field of Honour, Pointe-Claire, an official veteran's cemetery.
- Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, (Formerly Sainte-Foy) Quebec City. Interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others.
- Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal. Some of the notables buried here include Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harvey, Pierre Laporte.
Saskatchewan
- 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
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