Respectable Burial: Montreal’s Mount Royal Cemetery

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Respectable Burial: Montreal’s Mount Royal Cemetery
Abstract
A social history of “death, burial and a cherished public space in Montreal” from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Founded in 1852, Mount Royal Cemetery is the final resting place of the well known and the long forgotten in Canadian and Montreal history. The author explains how the history of this cemetery illustrates the changing attitudes towards burial and commemoration, including the relationship between Protestantism, Romanticism and death.
Place
Montreal and Kingston
Publisher
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Date
2003
# of Pages
lv-226p.
Language
en
ISBN
0-7735-2529-7
Notes

Photographs by Geoffrey James. This book is available in French, translated by Marie-Cécile Brasseur, under the title: Une mort très digne. L’histoire du cimetière Mont-Royal. Montréal et Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. lvi-235p.

Citation
Young, Brian. Respectable Burial: Montreal’s Mount Royal Cemetery. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
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