Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery is a very large graveyard that sits on the hill of Mount Royal in the city of Montreal. Founded in 1854, it is Canada’s largest graveyard and the third largest in North America. The cemetery’s architects were inspired by the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Their goal was to scale a French classicism style with the feelings of nature. This was a popular aesthetic movement at the time, influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher. The cemetery was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1999. The generally Roman Catholic cemetery holds over a million people (that’s a third of the population of the city) and is complete with 65,000 monuments. The cemetery offers selected areas reserved for all types of nationalities. Take a roam around the cemetery and you’ll discover spots exclusively for Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Ukrainian clients.