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Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont
The Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont (Belmont Cemetery) is located at 2176 avenue Chapdelaine in the Quebec City suburb of Sainte-Foy in the province of Quebec, Canada. The cemetery was built between 1857 and 1859.
Notables interred here include:
- Georges-Élie Amyot (1856-1930) politician and businessman.
- Valmore Bienvenue (1894-1952) American-born jurist, politician
- Arthur Buies (1840-1901), journalist, scholar
- René-Édouard Caron (1800-1876),
- Eugène Chinic (1818-1889) entrepreneur, bank founder, statesman
- Julien Chouinard (1929-1987), lawyer, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Antoine Dessane (1826-1873), France-born composer
- Edmund James Flynn (1847-1927), Premier of Quebec
- Ernest Gagnon (1834-1915), organist, historian, composer
- Jean Lesage (1912-1980), lawyer, Premier of Québec
- Félix-Gabriel Marchand (1832-1900), Premier of Québec
- Georges Parent (1879-1942), lawyer, statesman
- Yves Pratte (1925-1988), lawyer, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1867-1952) lawyer, Premier of Québec
- Ulric-Joseph Tessier ((1817-1892), statesman
- Robert Taschereau (1896-1970), lawyer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Joseph Vézina (1849-1924), orchestra conductor, composer
See also: List of famous cemeteries
Last updated: 06-05-2005 23:18:05
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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