Mount Royal Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

A few of the prominent people interred in the cemetery are:

• Sir John Abbott (1821-1893), Prime Minister of Canada
• Hugh Allan (1810-1882), financier and shipping magnate
• H. Montagu Allan (1860-1951), businessman, Hockey Hall of Fame member
• Richard Bladworth Angus (1831-1922), banker
• Robert Mitchell Ballantyne (1859-1929), businessman
• William Thomas Benson (1824-1885), businessman, politician
• Frank Calder (1877-1943), National Hockey League executive
• George Caverhill (1858-1937), businessman
• Sir Arthur Currie (1875-1933), First World War military commander, educator
• J. William Dawson (1820-1899), scientist, educator
• George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901), scientist
• Joseph Doutre (1825-1886), lawyer, writer, major adversary of Quebec Catholicism
• William Dow (1800-1868), brewer and businessman
• George Alexander Drummond (1829-1910), entrepreneur
• William Henry Drummond (1854-1907), Irish-Canadian poet, doctor
• Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914), author, a.k.a. "Sui Sin Far"
• Charles Edward Frosst (1867-1948), pharmaceuticals manufacturer
• Sir Alexander Galt (1817-1893), businessman, statesman, Father Of Confederation
• Horatio Gates (1777-1834), businessman, statesman
• Andrew Frederick Gault (1833-1903), merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist
• Samuel Gerrard (1767-1857), businessman
• Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan (1848-1938), newspaper publisher
• Joseph Guibord, (1809-1869), printer, was temporarily interred for six years at Mount Royal, pending litigation about his ultimate burial in Notre-Dame des Neiges Cemetery in 1875
• Charles Melville Hays (1856-1912), Grand Trunk Railway executive and Titanic victim
• Charles Heavysege (1816-1876), author, poet
• Alexander Henderson (1831-1913), merchant and photographer
• Herbert Samuel Holt (1856-1941), financier
• Charles Rudolph Hosmer (1851-1927), miller
• C. D. Howe (1886-1960), American-born politician and engineer
• Anna Leonowens (1834-1915), Governess at the Court of Siam, founder of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
• William C. Macdonald (1831-1917), tobacco manufacturer, philanthropist
• Dugald Lorn MacDougall (1811-1885), stockbroker, investor
• Allan McCarthy (1957-1995), musician, Men Without Hats
• John Wilson McConnell (1877-1963), publisher, philanthropist
• David Ross McCord (1844-1930), lawyer, philanthropic founder of the McCord Museum
• William King McCord (1803-1858), jurist, philanthropist
• Peter McGill (1789-1860), businessman, municipal politician
• Duncan McIntyre (1834-1894), businessman
• Hugh Mackay (1832-1890), businessman
• Robert Mackay (1840-1916), businessman, statesman
• Robert Meighen (1837-1911), businessman
• Charles Meredith (1854-1928), President of the Montreal Stock Exchange
• Frederick Edmund Meredith (1862-1941), Chancellor of Bishop's University
• Sir Vincent Meredith (1850-1929), 1st Baronet of Montreal, President of the Bank of Montreal
• William Campbell James Meredith (1904-1960), Dean of Law at McGill University
• Shadrach Minkins (1815?-1875), American-born fugitive slave rescued from federal custody in Boston in 1851.
• Hartland Molson (1907-2002), brewing magnate, World War II fighter pilot, statesman
• John Molson (1763-1836), brewing tycoon
• Howie Morenz (1902-1937), Hall of Fame ice hockey player
• Henry Morgan (1819-1893), opened first department store in Canada
• Arthur Deane Nesbitt (1910-1978), decorated soldier of World War II, stockbroker
• Arthur J. Nesbitt (1880-1954), cofounder of Nesbitt Thomson & Co. and Power Corporation of Canada
• J. Aird Nesbitt (1907-1985), owner/operator of Ogilvy's department store in Montreal
• Alexander Walker Ogilvie (1829-1902), miller, statesman
• William Watson Ogilvie (1835-1900) miller
• Frank L. Packard (1877-1942), mystery writer
• Ward Chipman Pitfield 1892-1939 World War I officer, Founder: Pitfield, McKay & Ross Investment Dealers
• John Redpath (1796-1869), contractor, built the first sugar refinery in Canada
• Robert Reford (1831-1913), entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951), shipping executive, artist, photographer
• Mordecai Richler (1931-2001), author
• James Ross (1848-1913), railway engineer, businessman, philanthropist
• Philip Simpson Ross (1827-1907), founder of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec
• Anne Savage (1896-1971), painter and art teacher
• F. R. Scott (1899-1985), scholar
• Denis Stairs (1889-1980), Chairman, Montreal Engineering Co.
• George Washington Stephens (1832-1904), businessman, lawyer, politician, philanthropist
• Harrison Stephens (1801-1881), American-born merchant
• David Thompson (1770-1857), surveyor and explorer
• David Torrance (1805-1876), merchant, banker
• John Torrance (1786-1870), merchant, shipper
• Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead(Unknown-1954), the man who sucker punched Harry Houdini who died of the injury.
• William Watson (c.1795-1867), miller, businessman, politician
• Thomas Workman (1813-1889), businessman, politician, philanthropist
• William Workman (1807-1878), businessman and municipal politician
• John Young, (1811-1878), entrepreneur, statesman
• Walter P. Zeller (1890-1957), founder of Zellers.