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Cemeteries of Lindsay,
Victoria County, Ontario Canada
The tribes of Northern Europe, from which we have
sprung disposed of their dead by burial in the earth, with various
religious rites. This ancestral form of burial is still universally
followed in Victoria County.
The first Protestant cemetery in Lindsay was on the block bounded by
Francis, Sussex, Colborne, and Albert streets, where the Alexandria
school now stands. About 1860 a new plot was purchased on the hill
slope in the East Ward at the southwest corner of Durham Street East
and the town boundary. This cemetery was ready for interments on
October 16, 1862. The grounds were unfortunately inadequate, and on
August 24, 1870, the Riverside Cemetery Company was incorporated,
and threw open a necropolis of thirteen acres on the east part of
the south half of lot 17 in the fifth concession of Ops, about a
mile south of the town. The first board of directors comprised the
following: President, S. S. McLennan; Secretary-Treasurer, Adam
Hudspeth; Directors, D. Brown, E. Gregory, Joseph Watson, S. C.
Wood, S. Bigelow, and J. Hamilton. Bodies were transferred from the
older cemeteries to this new field on the bank of the Scugog.
Newspaper files record that on May 22, 1876, a wagon, loaded with
rotten coffins, three tiers high, and surmounted by a nonchalant,
tobacco smoking driver, passed down Kent Street on its way to the
new place of burial. This cemetery is still in use.
The early Roman Catholic cemeteries were two in number: one, where
most of the villagers were buried, on Patrick Murphy's farm near the
Murphy school house (school section No. 1) four miles south of
Lindsay, and the other on King Connell's Point. In 1860 Father
Farrelly blessed a new cemetery on the western boundary of the town,
opposite the end of Mary Street. This burial ground was abandoned in
1897, during Mgr. Laurent's incumbency, when a plot of 23 acres on
the west bank of the river, south of the town, was purchased for
$2300 and greatly embellished.
Victoria County, Ontario
Canada Centennial History, Watson Kirkconnell M.A., 1921
Victoria County
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