Notre Dame Des Neiges Cemetery - Notable Interments

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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