Churches and Cemeteries

Brown's Family Burial Plot, Cantley

From A Place Apart by Norma Geggie, 1999:

As well as the Blackburn Cemetery with its two remaining markers, there had been another burial site in the vicinity, on property originally owned by Howard Brown. No headstones exist on this property on Prudhomme Road, but the original deed is said to have outlined the burial ground. Again, the site chosen is a rocky knoll topped by the occasional huge granite boulder with gnarled ancient maple roots embedded amongst them. There are however some areas where one can imagine a burial could have taken place. This was, as with other home burials, a site which would not have been easy to plough. They seem in each case to have avoided using prime farm land for such plots.

Additional resources:

• From In Memory of Chelsea's Historic Cemeteries by Carol Martin, 1999:
  • Brown's Family Burial Plot (description)

Chelsea’s Family Plots, Burial Data

Rest in peace: Cantley's little-known family burial grounds Cantley 1889

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List of Gatineau Valley Cemeteries.