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 the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. The entrance and the grounds run along a part of chemin Côte-des-Neiges and up the slopes of Mount Royal
Mount Royal
Mount Royal is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name.The mountain is part of the Monteregian Hills situated between the Laurentians and the Appalachians...

. Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and the third-largest in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

.

History and description

Created on property purchased from Dr. Pierre Beaubien
Pierre Beaubien
Pierre Beaubien was a physician and political figure in Canada East.He was born in Baie-du-Febvre in 1796 and studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet and the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. He went to France, where he studied at the Académie de Paris and later became a doctor in 1822...

, the new cemetery was a response to growing demand at a time when the old Saint-Antoine Cemetery (near the present Dominion Square) had become too small to serve Montreal’s rapidly increasing population.
On May 29, 1855, Mrs. Jane Gilroy, wife of Thomas McCready, then a Montréal municipal councilor, was the first person to be buried in the new cemetery.

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is the largest cemetery in Canada with more than 55 kilometres of lanes and one million people interred.
The Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery site has over 65,000 monuments and 71 family vaults.

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
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 community. Primarily the interment grounds for French Canadian
French Canadian
French Canadian or Francophone Canadian, , generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France in the 17th and 18th centuries...

s, as they have almost exclusively been members of the Roman Catholic faith.The cemetery shares the mountain with the predominantly English-speaking and originally Protestant adjacent burial ground, the Mount Royal Cemetery
Mount Royal Cemetery
Opened in 1852, Mount Royal Cemetery is a 165-acre terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The burial ground shares the mountain with the much larger adjacent Roman Catholic cemetery -- Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges...

. These two abutting cemeteries on the slopes of Mount Royal
Mount Royal
Mount Royal is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name.The mountain is part of the Monteregian Hills situated between the Laurentians and the Appalachians...

 with almost 1.5 million burials make the area a truly city of the dead. The only opening in the fence between the two large cemeteries is where two adjoining military sections are. Shortly after World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, to emphasize the comradeship and uniformity of sacrifice of Protestant and Catholic soldiers, the Imperial War Graves Commission insisted on an open passage between the two plots and the Cross of Sacrifice
Cross of Sacrifice
The Cross of Sacrifice was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission and is usually present in Commonwealth war cemeteries containing 40 or more graves. It is normally a freestanding four point limestone Latin cross in one of three sizes ranging in height from 18 to...

 was erected.

Its "La Pietà Mausoleum" contains a life-sized marble reproduction of Michelangelo's Pietà
Pietà (Michelangelo)
The Pietà is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French cardinal Jean de Billheres, who was a representative in...

 sculpture located in St. Peter's Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian as ' and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world...

 at the Vatican
Vatican City
Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...

. Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1999 and plaqued in 2004.

No burial
Burial
Burial is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over.-History:...

s or cremation
Cremation
Cremation is the process of reducing bodies to basic chemical compounds such as gasses and bone fragments. This is accomplished through high-temperature burning, vaporization and oxidation....

s took place between May 16, 2007, and September 11, 2007, because of a labour strike. The interments of more than 300 bodies were affected. In addition, its uncut, unkempt grass became a symbol of the labour dispute.

Due to its vast size, locating a specific grave can be difficult. As a result, the cemetery now offers a computerized mapping service that allows visitors to quickly and accurately locate graves. It can be accessed at the cemetery using a touch screen display or via the Internet.

New mausoleums

Every mausoleum
Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...

 in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery contains multiple crypt
Crypt
In architecture, a crypt is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault possibly containing sarcophagi, coffins or relics....

s, clearly identified, as well as columbaria
Columbarium
A columbarium is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns . The term comes from the Latin columba and originally referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons .The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas is a particularly fine ancient Roman example, rich in...

 with glass or marble niche
Niche
Niche may refer to:*Niche , an exedra or an apse that has been reduced in size;*Niche , Colombian/Spanish football player, full name Víctor Manuel Micolta Armero*Niche , a British Thoroughbred racehorse...

s for one or more urn
Urn
An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered, that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal. "Knife urns" placed on pedestals flanking a dining-room sideboard were an English innovation for high-style dining rooms of the late 1760s...

s. The first mausoleum, Notre Dame, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in 1978. The others were added gradually in the years that followed: John-Paul II (1980), Saint-Francis (1982), Marguerite-Bourgeoys (1983), The Pietà (1985), Saints Peter and Paul (1989), Sainte Clare of Assisi (1994), the two-storey Saint Marguerite d’Youville (1996) and most recently, Esther-Blondin (2007).

Opened in November 2007, the Esther Blondin Mausoleum, named after the founder of the Sisters of Saint Anne
Saint Anne
Saint Hanna of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian and Islamic tradition. English Anne is derived from Greek rendering of her Hebrew name Hannah...

, houses 6,000 burial crypts and niches.

Notable interments

The cemetery is the final resting place for a number of former mayors of the city of Montreal plus other prominent persons including:
  • Jacques Auger (1901–1977), actor, comedian
  • Raoul Barré
    Raoul Barré
    Raoul Barré was a Canadian and American cartoonist, animator of the silent film era, and artist.Barré was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only artistic child of an importer of communion wine...

     (1874–1932), cartoonist
  • Jean-Louis Beaudry
    Jean-Louis Beaudry
    Jean-Louis Beaudry was a Canadian entrepreneur and politician. Beaudry served as mayor of Montreal three times, from 1862 to 1866, from 1877 to 1879, and from 1881 to 1885 for a total time served as mayor of ten years....

     (1809–1886), entrepreneur, politician
  • Maurice Beaupré (1907–1984), actor
  • Rolland Bédard (1913–1987), actor
  • Richard Blass
    Richard Blass
    Richard Blass was an infamous Canadian gangster and a multiple murderer. Born in Montreal, he was nicknamed Le Chat, French for The Cat, so nicknamed because of his luck in evading death after surviving at least three assassination attempts, a police shootout and escaping from custody...

     (1945–1975), gangster, killer, mass murderer
  • Charlotte Boisjoli (1923–2001), writer, actress
  • Henri Bourassa
    Henri Bourassa
    Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. He is seen by many as an ideological father of Canadian nationalism....

     (1868–1952), politician, publisher
  • Robert Bourassa
    Robert Bourassa
    Jean-Robert Bourassa, was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as the 22nd Premier of Quebec in two different mandates, first from May 12, 1970, to November 25, 1976, and then from December 12, 1985, to January 11, 1994, serving a total of just under 15 years as Provincial Premier.-Early...

     (1933–1996), Premier of Quebec
  • Pierre Bourgault
    Pierre Bourgault
    Pierre Bourgault was a French Canadian politician and essayist of Breton origin, as well as an actor and journalist from Quebec, Canada. He is most famous as a public speaker who advocated sovereignty for Quebec from Canada.- Profile :Bourgault was born in East Angus in the Estrie region of Quebec...

     (1943–2003), politician, intellectual
  • Dino Bravo (1948–1993), WWF wrestler
  • Donald Brittain
    Donald Brittain
    Donald Brittain, O.C. was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada.Fields of Sacrifice is considered Brittain's first major film as director....

     (1928–1989), film director
  • Sir George-Étienne Cartier
    George-Étienne Cartier
    Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet, PC was a French-Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation.The English spelling of the name, George, instead of Georges, the usual French spelling, is explained by his having been named in honour of King George III....

     (1814–1873), statesman, Father of Confederation
  • Thérèse Forget Casgrain
    Thérèse Casgrain
    Marie Thérèse Forget Casgrain, was a feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada.Thérèse Casgrain was raised in a wealthy family, the daughter of Lady Blanche MacDonald and Sir Rodolphe Forget...

     (1896–1981), feminist, reformer and stateswoman
  • Lorne Chabot
    Lorne Chabot
    Lorne "Chabotsky" Chabot was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender.-Playing career:Lorne played in the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937. During this time, he played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Maroons, and New York Americans...

     (1900–1946), NHL
    National Hockey League
    The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

     ice-hockey goalie
  • Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
    Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
    Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, PC, KCMG , born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician....

     (1840–1898), lawyer, publisher, politician
  • Ernest Cormier
    Ernest Cormier
    thumb|Église Sainte-Marguerite-Marie-Alacoque, Montréal, thumb|Église Saint-Ambroise, Montréal, Ernest Cormier, OC was a Canadian engineer and architect who spent much of his career in the Montreal area, erecting notable examples of Art Deco architecture.-Life and career:He was born in Montreal,...

     ( 1885–1980 ), architect
  • Alexandre-Maurice Delisle
    Alexandre-Maurice Delisle
    Alexandre-Maurice Delisle was a Quebec businessman and political figure.He was born in Montreal, Lower Canada in 1810, studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal, articled in law and was admitted to the bar in 1832. In 1833, he married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Augustin Cuvillier, and was named...

     (1810–1880), businessman, statesman
  • Gonzalve Doutre (1842–1880), lawyer, scholar, president of the Institut Canadien
  • Jean Drapeau
    Jean Drapeau
    Jean Drapeau, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and 1960 to 1986...

     (1916–1999), Mayor of Montreal
  • Lewis Thomas Drummond
    Lewis Thomas Drummond
    Lewis Thomas Drummond was a Quebec lawyer, judge and political figure.He was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry in Ireland in 1813. His father, an attorney, died while he was young and he came to Lower Canada with his mother in 1825...

     (1813–1882), jurist, politician
  • Ludger Duvernay
    Ludger Duvernay
    Ludger Duvernay was born in Verchères, Quebec, Canada.He was a printer by profession and published a number of newspapers including the Gazette des Trois-Rivières, the first newspaper in Lower Canada outside of Quebec City and Montreal, and also La Minerve, which supported the Parti patriote and...

     (1799–1852), founder of Quebec's Société St-Jean-Baptiste
    Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society
    The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society is an institution in Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec Sovereignism. Its current President is Mario Beaulieu....

  • Marcel Faribault
    Marcel Faribault
    Marcel Faribault, was a Canadian notary, businessman and administrator.-Background:Born in Montreal, he was the son of René Faribault and Anna Pauzé and was educated at the Université de Montréal...

     (1908–1972), notary and legislative adviser
  • Gérald Fauteux
    Gérald Fauteux
    Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1970 to 1973....

     (1900–1980), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Amédée-Emmanuel Forget
    Amédée E. Forget
    Amédée Emmanuel Marie Forget was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, and politician. He was the last Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories and the first Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Saskatchewan....

     (1847–1923), Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories
    Northwest Territories
    The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...

     and Saskatchewan
    Saskatchewan
    Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

  • Louis-Joseph Forget
    Louis-Joseph Forget
    Louis-Joseph Forget was a Canadian businessman and politician.Born in Terrebonne, Canada East, he was a stock broker and founded his own firm, L. J. Forget et Compagnie, in 1876. One of the wealthiest French Canadians in Montreal, he was chairman of the Montreal Stock Exchange in 1895 and 1896...

     (1853–1911), financier and president of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
  • Sir Rodolphe Forget
    Rodolphe Forget
    Sir Joseph David Rodolphe Forget was an important Canadian business investor, stockbroker, and politician. He held national directorships and had major investments in energy companies as well as industrial concerns and railway companies in the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario...

     (1861–1919), financier, statesman, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
  • Jean Gascon
    Jean Gascon
    Jean Gascon, was a Canadian opera director, actor, and administrator.From 1968 to 1974, he was the artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada.-Honours:...

     (1921–1988), stage and film actor/director
  • Conrad Gauthier (1886–1964), singer/songwriter
  • Sir Lomer Gouin
    Lomer Gouin
    Sir Jean Lomer Gouin, PC, KCMG was a Canadian politician.-Biography:He was born in Grondines, Quebec and served as 13th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, as a Cabinet minister in the federal government of Canada, and as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.On May 24, 1888, he married...

    , (1861–1929), Lieutenant-Governor and Premier of Quebec
  • Robert Gravel
    Robert Gravel
    Robert Gravel was an actor, dramatist, theatrical director and teacher.-Career:Gravel was born in Montreal and is one of the most influential figures in the modern history of theater in Quebec. In the middle of the 1970s, Gravel, Jean-Pierre Ronfard and Pol Pelletier co-founded the Théâtre...

     (1945–1996), actor
  • Joseph Guibord (1809–1869), patriote, buried through a court order in the Guibord case
    Guibord case
    Brown v. Les Curé et Marguilliers de l'oeuvre et de la Fabrique de la Paroisse de Montréal, better known as the Guibord case, was a famous decision in 1874 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in an early Canadian legal dispute over the relationship between church and state...

    .
  • Doug Harvey (1924–1989), ice-hockey Hall of Fame defenceman
  • Camillien Houde
    Camillien Houde
    Camillien Houde was a Quebec politician, a Member of Parliament, and a four-time mayor of Montreal.-Political career:...

     (1889–1958), statesman, Mayor of Montreal
  • Harry Hyland
    Harry Hyland
    Harold Macarius Hyland was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa Senators...

     (1889–1969), Hall of Fame ice-hockey player
  • Henri Julien
    Henri Julien
    Henri Julien, baptised Octave-Henri Julien was a French Canadian artist and cartoonist noted for his work for the Canadian Illustrated News....

     (1852–1908), lithographer, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, reporter
  • Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
    Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
    Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine , 1st Baronet, KCMG was the first Canadian to become Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada. He was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada in 1807...

     (1807–1864), jurist, politician
  • Alfred Laliberté
    Alfred Laliberté
    Alfred Laliberté was a Canadian sculptor and painter based in Quebec. His output includes more than 900 sculptures in bronze, marble, wood, and plaster. Many of his sculptures depict national figures and events in Canada and France like Louis Hebert, François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle, Adam Dollard...

     (1878–1953), sculptor
  • Pierre Laporte
    Pierre Laporte
    Pierre Laporte was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician who was the Deputy Premier and Minister of Labour of the province of Quebec before being kidnapped and killed by members of the group Front de libération du Québec during the October Crisis. Mr...

     (1921–1970), statesman assassinated by FLQ terrorists
  • Calixa Lavallée
    Calixa Lavallée
    Calixa Lavallée, , born Calixte Lavallée, was a French-Canadian-American musician and Union officer during the American Civil War who composed the music for O Canada, which officially became the national anthem of Canada in 1980.-Biography:Calixa Lavallée was born at Verchères, a suburb of...

     (1842–1891), composer of O Canada
    O Canada
    It has been noted that the opening theme of "O Canada" bears a strong resemblance to the "Marsch der Priester" , from the opera Die Zauberflöte , composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and that Lavallée's melody was inspired by Mozart's tune...

  • René Lecavalier
    René Lecavalier
    René Lecavalier, OC, CQ was a Canadian French language radio show host and sportscaster on SRC in Quebec. During his career in radio Lecavalier won several Radiomonde Trophies. He was also the first commentator for La Soirée du hockey, the French language version of Hockey Night in Canada...

     (1918–1999), sports commentator
  • J. Louis Lévesque (1911–1994) stockbroker, philanthropist, horse racing builder
  • Nick Auf der Maur
    Nick Auf der Maur
    Nick Auf der Maur was a journalist, politician and "man about town" boulevardier in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was also the father of rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur, through his marriage to Linda Gaboriau....

     (1942–1998), journalist, politician
  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825–1868), journalist, statesman, Father of Confederation
  • Honoré Mercier
    Honoré Mercier
    Honoré Mercier was a lawyer, journalist and politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the ninth Premier of Quebec from January 27, 1887 to December 21, 1891, as leader of the Parti National or Quebec Liberal Party ....

     (1840–1894), statesman
  • Pierre-Basile Mignault (1878-1929) Puisne Justice Supreme Court of Canada
  • Lucienne Morency Auclair (1916–2009), Old World storyteller
  • Émile Nelligan
    Émile Nelligan
    Émile Nelligan was a francophone poet from Quebec, Canada.-Biography:Nelligan was born in Montreal on December 24, 1879 at 602, rue de La Gauchetière. He was the first son of David Nelligan, who arrived in Quebec from Dublin, Ireland at the age of 12. His mother was Émilie Amanda Hudon, from...

     (1879–1941), poet
  • Robert Nelson (1794–1873), medical practitioner, statesman
  • John Ostell
    John Ostell
    John Ostell architect, surveyor and manufacturer, was born in London, England and emigrated to Canada in 1834, where he apprenticed himself to a Montreal surveyor André Trudeau to learn French methods of surveying. In 1837 he married Eleonore Gauvin a member of a prominent French Catholic family...

     (1813–1892), architect
  • Gédéon Ouimet
    Gédéon Ouimet
    Gédéon Ouimet was a French-Canadian politician.Born in what is today part of the city of Laval, Quebec Canada, Ouimet served as the second Premier of the province of Quebec from February 26, 1873 to September 22, 1874. He resigned as party leader of the Quebec Conservatives in 1874. He died in...

     (1823–1905), lawyer, politician, Premier of the Province of Quebec
  • Alice Poznanska-Parizeau
    Alice Parizeau
    Alice Parizeau, OC was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.-Early life:...

     (1930–1990), writer
  • Pierre Péladeau
    Pierre Péladeau
    Pierre Péladeau, was a French-Canadian businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media company centered in the province of Quebec.-Biography:...

     (1925–1997), businessman, media mogul
  • Kenneth Gordon Polsjek (1938–1983), stuntman
  • Maurice Richard
    Maurice Richard
    Joseph Henri Maurice "the Rocket" Richard, Sr., was a French-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League from 1942 to 1960. The "Rocket" was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, the first to achieve the feat of 50 goals in 50...

     (1921–2000), Hall of Fame ice-hockey player
  • Yvon Robert
    Yvon Robert
    Yvon Robert was a French Canadian professional wrestler who was best known to fans as Yvon "The Lion" Robert.- American Wrestling Association :...

    , (1914–1971), professional wrestler
  • Jean "Johnny" Rougeau (1929–1983), professional wrestler
  • Jeanne Sauvé
    Jeanne Sauvé
    Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 23rd since Canadian Confederation....

     (1922–1993), politician and Governor-General of Canada
  • Lord Thomas George Shaughnessy, (1853–1923), President of CPR
    Canadian Pacific Railway
    The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

  • Mary Travers
    La Bolduc
    Mary Rose-Anna Travers, was a French Canadian singer and musician. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Canadian Folksingers. Bolduc is often considered to be Quebec's first singer/songwriter...

    , "La Bolduc" (1894–1941), singer
  • Charles Wilson (1808–1877), businessman, mayor of Montreal
  • Marcellin Wilson (1859–1940), financier, philanthropist, statesman

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