Notre Dame Cemetery, is a

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Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...

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, Canada. Opened in 1872, it is the most prominent Catholic cemetery in Ottawa. The cemetery's western edge is located in Vanier, just south of

Beechwood Cemetery Beechwood Cemetery, located in the former city of Vanier in Ottawa, Ontario, is the National Cemetery of Canada. It is the final resting place for over 82,000 Canadians from all walks of life, such as important politicians like Governor Genera ...

. Its eastern limit is St. Laurent Boulevard. The cemetery is the final resting place for more than 114,000 people.

Notable interments

Janis Babson Janis Anne Babson (September 9, 1950 – May 12, 1961) was a Canadian girl who received posthumous acclaim with the donation of her corneas for Corneal transplantation, transplant after her death from leukemia at the age of 10. Her story was ...

(1950–1961), Corneal transplant donor * E. A. Bourque (1887–1962), Mayor of Ottawa *

Ernie Calcutt Ernest George Calcutt (November 1, 1932January 10, 1984) was a Canadian sports commentator and radio news director. He worked for CFRA 580-AM in Ottawa, and was the voice for the Ottawa Rough Riders radio broadcasts from 1964 to 1983. He served ...

(1932–1984), Ottawa Rough Riders announcer and Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee *

Benjamin Chee Chee Kenneth Thomas Chee Chee (26 March 1944 – 14 March 1977), known as Benjamin Chee Chee, was an Ojibwa Canadian artist born in Temagami, Ontario. Early life Chee Chee's early life was troubled and he lost track of his mother, for whom he spen ...

(1944–1977), Ojibwa artist *

Alex Connell Alexander "The Ottawa Fireman" Connell (February 8, 1902 — May 10, 1958) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Ottawa Senators, Detroit Falcons, New York Americans and Montreal Maroons teams in the National Hock ...

(1902–1958), Hockey Hall of Fame player *

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(1901–1986), Hockey Hall of Fame player *

Yousuf Karsh Yousuf Karsh, FRPS (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was a Canadian-Armenian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. An Armenian ...

(1908–2002), Portrait photographer *

Filip Konowal Filip Konowal VC ( uk, Пили́п Миронович Конова́л; ''Pylyp Myronovych Konoval''; 25 March 1887 – 3 June 1959) was a highly decorated Ukrainian Canadian soldier. He is the first Canadian Corps member not born in the Briti ...

(1886–1959), World War I hero, awarded the Victoria Cross *

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, ( ; ; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minist ...

(1841–1919), Prime Minister of Canada * Champlain Marcil (1920–2010), Photographer * Louis-Félix Pinault (1852–1906), Statesman *

Silver Quilty Sylvester Patrick "Silver" Quilty (February 8, 1891 – December 2, 1976) was a Canadian football player, referee, coach and sport administrator. As a player, he won the Yates Cup in 1907 with the Ottawa Gee-Gees football team, and was credited ...

(1891–1976), Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee *

Eldon Rathburn Eldon Davis Rathburn (21 April 1916 – 31 August 2008) was a Canadian film composer who scored over 250 films during his thirty-year tenure as a staff composer at the National Film Board of Canada. Known as "the dean of Canadian film composers",< ...

(1916–2008), Canadian film composer *

Anna T. Sadlier Anna T. Sadlier (1854 – April 16, 1932) was a Canadian writer whose novels were of a Catholic nature, and whose works numbered over forty volumes. She began to write when she was about eighteen. Her published works include a number of translatio ...

(1854-1932), writer * Tommy Smith (1886–1966), Hockey Hall of Fame player

War Graves

The cemetery contains the

war graves War is an intense armed conflict between State (polity), states, governments, Society, societies, or paramilitary groups such as Mercenary, mercenaries, Insurgency, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violenc ...

of 115 Commonwealth service personnel, 40 from World War I and 75 from World War II.
CWGC Cemetery Report.

References

;Bibliography * * *

External links

* Roman Catholic cemeteries in Canada Tourist attractions in Ottawa Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Canada Cemeteries in Ottawa {{Ottawa-stub