Cemetery’s limited hours annoy people

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery has limited its opening hours and this is annoying some, especially since it’s now closed Sundays and was locked up for all of Labour Day weekend.

As it happens I’d gone over to take a walk under the trees that weekend, having checked the hours a few days before on the website. No weekend shutdown was mentioned when I checked, so I arrived to find it unexpectedly locked up on a Saturday, and as I stood there several others walked or drove up to the gates and turned away nonplused.

And you can be fined if you manage to sneak in. I like the woman’s observation here: “Staffing shortages are hard to believe when there are personnel on site whose job it is to tell us they don’t have enough staff to let us in.”