Notre-Dame-des-Neiges goes online
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, the city’s most massive cemetery, has announced a new online mapping tool, but this isn’t quite as new as they’re claiming. It used to be possible to enter names and find grave numbers and get a PDF list of who else was buried there, but that system was discontinued awhile back. It often provided useful data for doing genealogy. But the current tool’s better than nothing, although I hope they’ll restore the option to download a list.
As a footnote, I don’t believe Mount Royal cemetery has anything comparable, although the Repos St‑François‑d’Assise does. I’ve never researched in the Jewish cemeteries so I don’t know whether they put any archival data online.
Orr 21:34 on 2025-07-13 Permalink
I tried it with famous Montrealer Thomas D’Arcy McGee and it extremely didn’t work. From the english language side of their website the link didn’t exist and on the french side it worked “somewhat” but the map was just all-black. I’ll try again in a few days to see if it eventually they get the bugs fixed.
Fun fact about D’Arcy McGee: some Lintel stones from D’Arcy McGee’s house are displayed in the rear of the lobby of the Engineering and Fine Arts Complex.
Orr 22:32 on 2025-07-13 Permalink
My bad, I forgot the first rule of “if a website isn’t working did I try it using Chrome?” and it works fine.
MarcG 09:43 on 2025-07-14 Permalink
For some reason WebGL only works for me in Chromium-based browsers as well. Research tells me it should work in Firefox but in practice it doesn’t.
dhomas 13:14 on 2025-07-14 Permalink
Very odd. It worked for me in both my main browser, Firefox, and in Chrome. I could find D’Arcy McGee in both.
Kate 16:51 on 2025-07-14 Permalink
Good testing.
I do wish the English side of the site wouldn’t label this feature “Search for a Loved One”. At least in French it’s more straightforward: “Recherche de défunts.”
I also found McGee.
dhomas 07:08 on 2025-07-15 Permalink
I didn’t even see an option for English. It’s not in the “Hamburger” menu at the top right; it’s waaaaay at the bottom of the page. It does indeed say “Search for a Loved One” in English. I didn’t love D’Arcy McGee, but I found him anyway! ;p