St. James Anglican Cemetery, Hull, Quebec: Gravestone Inscriptions

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Title
St. James Anglican Cemetery, Hull, Quebec: Gravestone Inscriptions
Abstract
St. James Cemetery, founded in 1820, is where the founding fathers of Hull-Bytown-Ottawa are buried. It is the oldest European cemetery in the National Capital Region. Among the people buried in the cemetery are: Philemon Wright, founder of Hull, and his wife Abigail Wyman, the first businesswoman in the area; John Scott, the first mayor of Bytown; Robert Bell, the founder of the Ottawa Citizen; Nicholas Sparks, a rich property owner in Ottawa’s centretown; and E.B. Eddy, one of Canada’s biggest nineteenth century industrialists. St James Anglican Church was founded in 1823.
Place
Ottawa, ON
Publisher
Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society
Date
1977
# of Pages
v-66p.
Language
en
Citation
Elliott, Bruce S. St. James Anglican Cemetery, Hull, Quebec: Gravestone Inscriptions. Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1977.
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