Strike continues at cemetery
Workers at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges have rejected an offer from management, so the big cemetery remains closed. I bet it’s really nice and wild up there now – probably better for insects and birds than when it’s mowed and trimmed.
MarcG 14:33 on 2023-06-29 Permalink
Drove by a couple of weeks ago and it was nice and shaggy.
thomas 18:05 on 2023-06-29 Permalink
So what happens if some rare or endangered species decides to nest there and make it their home?
Kate 18:26 on 2023-06-29 Permalink
How would we know, if nobody’s allowed inside?
thomas 18:53 on 2023-06-29 Permalink
Right, but just because the gates are locked doesn’t mean that people don’t go inside.
carswell 21:23 on 2023-06-29 Permalink
@thomas There is indeed at least one unofficial “entrance,” a break in a remote stretch of the fence that has existed for years, sees lots of foot traffic and appears to be tolerated by cemetery staff. A friend used it to recently to visit and tend to his wife’s nearby grave.
carswell 12:47 on 2023-06-30 Permalink
Realized this morning that the breach I was thinking of is in the fence around Mount Royal Cemetery, maybe 100 m from its border with Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. So I went on a ramble in the bug-filled woods and soon found three unofficial entrances to NDN: one you’d have to get on all fours and squirm under, one about the size of a casement window and one that’d require 6’3″ me to duck slightly. Well-trodden paths led to the last two.
Kate 14:09 on 2023-06-30 Permalink
Good intel, carswell. Thanks.
Bob R 09:33 on 2023-07-02 Permalink
This is disappointing. I discovered a (possible) relative who is buried there, back in January, and I still haven’t been able to visit their gravesite.
Kate 11:13 on 2023-07-02 Permalink
Bob R, the Sulpicians, who own the cemetery, have been notoriously stingy with their workers for years. If they don’t hold the line, they’ll be working for peanuts for years to come.
The cemetery will reopen and your (possible) relative isn’t going anywhere in the meantime.