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Mount Hermon Cemetery National Historic Site of Canada
Native name
lieu historique national du Canada du Cimetière-Mount Hermon (French)
Mount Hermon Cemetery
Mount Hermon Cemetery’s entrance lodge
Entrance lodge
TypeNational Historic Site of Canada
Location
Coordinates46°46′43″N 71°14′48″W / 46.77851°N 71.24657°W / 46.77851; -71.24657 (Mount Hermon Cemetery)
Area109,010 m2 (0.042 sq mi)[1]
Elevation60 metres (196.85 feet)[1]
Incorporated1849-05-30[2]
FoundedFebruary 11, 1848; 176 years ago (1848-02-11)[3][4]
Founder
Built1848
Built forQuebec City's Protestant community
Original useCemetery
Restored2011[7]
Restored byConstruction Couture & Tanguay inc.[7]
Current useCemetery
Architect
Architectural style(s)
OwnerMount Hermon Cemetery Association[8][9]
WebsiteMountHermonCemetery.com
Official nameMount Hermon Cemetery National Historic Site of Canada
TypeNational Historic Site of Canada
Designated2007-06-08[10][11]
Reference no.11837

Mount Hermon Cemetery is a historic garden cemetery and National Historic Site of Canada, located in the Sillery district (Template:Lang-fr) of the Sainte-Foy-Sillery-Cap-Rouge borough (Template:Lang-fr) of Quebec City, Canada.[12][4][10][11] It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007.[10][11]

The impetus for the creation of the cemetery was the need for the provision of an Anglican burying ground for Quebec City's primarily English language speaking, Anglican community, in the mid–1800s.[12]

The cemetery is located at the corner of Saint-Louis Road (Template:Lang-fr) and Cote de Sillery (Template:Lang-fr, formerly Template:Lang-fr), on 11 hectares (26 acres) of land overlooking the Saint Lawrence River, in the southeastern direction.[4][12] The main entrance is accessed at 1801 Saint-Louis Road, at the northern end of the cemetery. There is a pedestrian entrance located at the southwestern portion of the cemetery, accessed at the northern terminus of avenue des Voiliers, one-block east of Cote de Sillery. The cemetery grounds contain both paved and gravel roads.[4]

More than 17,000 people are buried at Mount Hermon.[3] Mount Hermon Cemetery draws distinction as being the first garden cemetery (Template:Lang-fr) established in Canada.[13] Mount Hermon, and other garden cemeteries formed in North America, took inspiration from Paris's cimetière du Père-Lachaise de Paris.[13]

A memorial was dedicated to the victims of the sinking of the shipwrecked Empress of Ireland, in 1914, and other memorials were erected at later dates on the garden cemetery grounds.[4] The major loss of lives aboard the shipwrecked Empress of Ireland had significant impact upon Mount Hermon, along with its neighboring cemetery on chemin Saint-Louis: Saint-Patrick's Cemetery, which also relocated from the city of Quebec, in 1879. Both of the cemeteries took on responsibility for a significant amount of the ship's passengers whom perished aboard or at sea.

Separately, on the Mount Hermon grounds is the Treggett Bell, which was presented in gratitude to the Treggett family, who had members from four different generations of its family serve as Mount Hermon's Superintendents, encompassing the years 1865–2014.[3][4]

In addition, the cemetery contains sections dedicated for individuals of Greek (Template:Lang-fr), Chinese (Template:Lang-fr), and Cambodian (Template:Lang-fr) descent.[4]

History

Cemetery entrance between October 1858 and 1880
Albumen print of entrance, October 1858–1880, by Samuel McLaughlin.

In the spring of 1847, a group of Protestant businessmen, shipbuilders, merchants, and clergy convened a public meeting to determine the possibility of buying land for a rural cemetery.[3][4] Quebec City's original Protestant cemetery, located adjacent to Saint Matthew's Church on Saint-Jean Street (Template:Lang-fr) had reached its capacity and city officials requested that a new Protestant cemetery be established outside of the city limits.[3][4]

With aid from the lumber merchant John Gilmour, a prominent member of the local Protestant community, as well as a member of first municipal council of Sillery, the Quebec Protestant Cemetery Association was formed on 11 February 1848. Its first president was George O'Kill Stuart, Jr., and its main objective was to collect the funds necessary to purchase land and establish a cemetery on it.[3][4] Other founding members included the philanthropist Jeffery Hale and the physician Dr. James Douglas, the later whom served as a member of the cemetery's first board of directors in 1848.[5][6][4]

On 14 June 1848, Christopher Ferguson, 42-years of age, who was the master of the brig Transit, died of erysipelas. He became the first person to be buried in the nascent cemetery and the first person to be recorded in the cemetery's burial register. The only other details recorded were that he was a member of the Church of England and that the officiating clergyman was the Rev. J. Cornwall.[14][15][12]

The legislation (12 Vict., chap. 191) which legally incorporated the new cemetery was adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada on 30 May 1849.[2][12] It was at that time that the new cemetery was officially given the name of Mount Hermon.

The membership of the association's first board of directors was noted for being an example of ecumenical cooperation in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic majority city and province of Quebec. Between June 1848 and December 1883, out of 6,164 burials, close to half of the decedents were members of the Anglican Church (2,991), followed by Presbyterians (1,117), and Methodists (583).[15]

Cemetery design

lodge and gates design plans
"Design for proposed entrance lodge and gates for the grounds of the Quebec Cemetery," Edward Staveley, 6 September 1848, Quebec City

An American civil and military engineer, David Bates Douglass, designed the layout of Mount Hermon, in 1848. Douglass, who garnered acclaim for his 1838–1839 design of Green-Wood Cemetery, as a landscape of "bucolic serenity" in Brooklyn, New York, modeled both Albany Rural Cemetery (1845—1846), located on the outskirts of Albany, New York, and Mount Hermon Cemetery, after Green-Wood.[16][17]

All three of Douglass' cemeteries were designed from the philosophical perspective of the architect Sir Christopher Wren, who in the year 1711, began to argue for cemeteries to be located in pastoral settings, away from crowded and disease-plagued cities. The three David Bates Douglass designed garden cemetery landscapes all have achieved historic and cultural landmark statuses: in addition to Mount Hermon's designation as a National Historic Site of Canada, his Green-Wood Cemetery was designated a United States National Historic Landmark in 2006, and his Albany Rural Cemetery was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[18]

Quebec City architect Edward Staveley (1795–1872) designed the cemetery's Gothic Revival entrance lodge and gates in a set of plans that were signed and dated on 6 September 1848, in Quebec.[19][20][21] On 24 August 1849, Staveley completed a design plan for a burial vault at Mount Hermon for the family of the Hon. Henry Black.[20][22]

At the time of its establishment, Mount Hermon was the first cemetery to be located in a rural area, outside of Quebec City's legal jurisdiction, in addition to being Canada's first garden cemetery.[13] On 10 July 1859, the Roman Catholic Notre-Dame-de-Belmont Cemetery (Template:Lang-fr), located in the adjacent, historic area of Sainte-Foy, was blessed and its first burial took place two days later.[23] This was the second garden cemetery to be created in a rural environment outside of the city limits of Quebec.

Historic recognition

Park space for public use
"Park-like space for public use"

On 8 June 2007, Mount Hermon Cemetery was officially recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada.[10][11] Additionally, the cemetery is located on the Sillery Heritage Site, which was designated as a historic district in 1964.[24] On 24 April 2009, Parks Canada listed Mount Hermon Cemetery on the Canadian Register of Historic Places ("Canada's Historic Places"), which it administers.[11]

Amongst other attributes, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada noted, in its initial December 2005 research report, the heritage value of the blending of art with nature that its board members had witnessed onsite, including Celtic crosses, neoclassical monuments, obelisks, globes, and the cemetery's Gothic-Revival style lodge, all in a layout that was "park-like space for public use."[10][25]

In 2011, restoration work was performed to the outside of the cemetery's entrance lodge, which contains the Superintendent's office and residence.[7] The work included the replacement of the lodge's asphalt shingle roof with a cedar shingle one and the addition of a wood staircase for a secondary entrance, as well as restorative measures performed on the cemetery's mass grave (Template:Lang-fr) for the anonymous victims from the Empress of Ireland.[7]

On 8 September 2016, a ceremony was held at Mount Hermon to mark the 150th anniversary of Jeffery Hale Hospital (Template:Lang-fr). At the ceremony, new engravings on the Hale family monument, along with a bench, were unveiled.[26]

War graves

The War Graves Photographic Project, a volunteer initiative which has recorded the graves or memorial listings of every Commonwealth service member death since World War I, has indexed the details regarding 170 servicemembers buried at Mount Hermon, including photographs of their headstones.[27][28] Hard or digital copies of the photographs may be requested from the non-profit organization, along with a donation.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission identified 68 individuals buried at Mount Hermon Cemetery whom it determined were casualties from World Wars I and II.[29] Of those burials, 49 are of servicemembers whom were killed in active duty during the first World War; 14 from WWII, one of whom is an unidentified Canadian airman.[29] In addition, there are three American war graves, as well as one interned Austrian civilian's grave. The Commonwealth burials located in Section G are buried in Plot 1368.[29]

Section G, located in the northeastern portion of the cemetery is dedicated as "The Canadian Armed Forces Section and the Memorial to three United States Army Airmen who died in 1942" (Template:Lang-fr).[4]

Forsyth family grave monument
Forsyth family headstone
Memorial for the victims of the RMS Empress of Ireland shipwreck
Empress of Ireland Memorial
cemetery sign on street
Street signage
Entrance lodge
Entrance Lodge
garden cemetery
Garden landscape

Notable burials

Business

Education / religion

Government / politics

Literature

Medicine

Military

See also

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