Mount Hermon Cemetery

Mount Hermon Cemetery (Cimetière du Mont Hermon) is a garden (or rural) cemetery and National Historic Site of Canada. It is located in the Sillery district (quartier) of the Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge borough (arrondissement) of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The cemetery was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007. The impetus for the creation of the 11-hectare (26-acre) cemetery was the need for the provision of a Protestant burying ground for Quebec City's primarily English language speaking, Protestant community, in the mid–1800s. The cemetery is located at the corner of Saint-Louis Road (chemin Saint-Louis) and côte de Sillery (formerly côte de l'Église), on 109,010 m2 (0.042 mi2) of land overlooking the Saint Lawrence River, in the southeastern direction. More than 17,000 people are buried at Mount Hermon Cemetery. This cemetery draws distinction as being the first garden cemetery (cimetière-jardin) established in Canada. Mount Hermon Cemetery, and other garden cemeteries formed in North America, took inspiration from cimetière du Père-Lachaise of Paris. 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 cemetery's grounds. The major loss of lives aboard the shipwrecked Empress of Ireland had significant impact

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