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 (1874–1932), cartoonist
- Jean-Louis Beaudry (1809–1886), entrepreneur, politician
- Maurice Beaupré (1907–1984), actor
- Rolland Bédard (1913–1987), actor
- Richard Blass (1945–1975), gangster, killer, mass murderer
- Charlotte Boisjoli (1923–2001), writer, actress
- Henri Bourassa (1868–1952), politician, publisher
- Robert Bourassa (1933–1996), Premier of Quebec
- Pierre Bourgault (1943–2003), politician, intellectual
- Dino Bravo (1948–1993), WWF wrestler
- Donald Brittain (1928–1989), film director
- Ken Carter (1938-1983), Canadian Stuntman
- Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1814–1873), statesman, Father of Confederation
- Thérèse Forget Casgrain (1896–1981), feminist, reformer and stateswoman
- Lorne Chabot (1900–1946), NHL ice-hockey goalie
- Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (1840–1898), lawyer, publisher, politician
- Ernest Cormier ( 1885–1980 ), architect
- Alexandre-Maurice Delisle (1810–1880), businessman, statesman
- Gonzalve Doutre (1842–1880), lawyer, scholar, president of the Institut Canadien
- Jean Drapeau (1916–1999), Mayor of Montreal
- Lewis Thomas Drummond (1813–1882), jurist, politician
- Ludger Duvernay (1799–1852), founder of Quebec's Société St-Jean-Baptiste
- Marcel Faribault (1908–1972), notary and legislative adviser
- Gérald Fauteux (1900–1980), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Amédée-Emmanuel Forget (1847–1923), Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan
- Louis-Joseph Forget (1853–1911), financier and president of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
- Sir Rodolphe Forget (1861–1919), financier, statesman, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
- Jean Gascon (1921–1988), stage and film actor/director
- Conrad Gauthier (1886–1964), singer/songwriter
- Sir Lomer Gouin, (1861–1929), Lieutenant-Governor and Premier of Quebec
- Robert Gravel (1945–1996), actor
- Joseph Guibord (1809–1869), patriote, buried through a court order in the Guibord case.
- Doug Harvey (1924–1989), ice-hockey Hall of Fame defenceman
- Camillien Houde (1889–1958), statesman, Mayor of Montreal
- Harry Hyland (1889–1969), Hall of Fame ice-hockey player
- Henri Julien (1852–1908), lithographer, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, reporter
- Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1807–1864), jurist, politician
- Alfred Laliberté (1878–1953), sculptor
- Pierre Laporte (1921–1970), statesman assassinated by FLQ terrorists
- Calixa Lavallée (1842–1891), composer of O Canada
- René Lecavalier (1918–1999), sports commentator
- J. Louis Lévesque (1911–1994) stockbroker, philanthropist, horse racing builder
- Nick Auf der Maur (1942–1998), journalist, politician
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825–1868), journalist, statesman, Father of Confederation
- Honoré Mercier (1840–1894), statesman
- Pierre-Basile Mignault (1878-1929) Puisne Justice Supreme Court of Canada
- Lucienne Morency Auclair (1916–2009), Old World storyteller
- Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), poet
- Robert Nelson (1794–1873), medical practitioner, statesman
- John Ostell (1813–1892), architect
- Gédéon Ouimet (1823–1905), lawyer, politician, Premier of the Province of Quebec
- Alice Poznanska-Parizeau (1930–1990), writer
- Pierre Péladeau (1925–1997), businessman, media mogul
- Kenneth Gordon Polsjek (1938–1983), stuntman
- 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
- Lord Thomas George Shaughnessy, (1853–1923), President of CPR
- Mary Travers, "La Bolduc" (1894–1941), singer
- Charles Wilson (1808–1877), businessman, mayor of Montreal
- Marcellin Wilson (1859–1940), financier, philanthropist, statesman
- Marc Lépine (1964-1989), mass murderer; École Polytechnique massacre
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