Cataraqui Cemetery

The cemetery charter was created during a special act of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada on August 10, 1850.[7] The Cataraqui Cemetery was incorporated as a not-for-profit, non-denominational, and public resting place.[8] Alexander Campbell served as the first president.[7] Architect Frederick Cornell designed the cemetery landscape.[5] Interments increased quickly when the City of Kingston passed a by-law in 1864, preventing burials within the city limits.[8] The gravesite of John A. Macdonald and family plot were recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada on May 19, 1938.[6] Cataraqui Cemetery as a whole was recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada on July 19, 2011.[5]

Cataraqui Cemetery is the final resting place for many notable persons including politicians, businessmen, humanitarians, and authors.[9] The cemetery contains the war graves of 61 service personnel from World War I, and 84 from World War II.[10] Queen's University owns a section that is reserved for interring the remains of those who dedicate their bodies to education and research.[11]

• Leonard Birchall – Royal Canadian Air Force officer[9]
• Thomas Burrowes – Artist and surveyor[9]
• John Counter – First mayor of the City of Kingston[9]
• Alexander Campbell – Father of Confederation, and a former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario[12]
• Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers – Founder of the Canadian Signal Corps[9]
• Richard Cartwright – Judge and politician[9]
• James Alexander Corry – Academic and principal of Queen's University[11]
• William Coverdale – Architect[9]
• John Creighton – Politician and warden[9]
• John James Deutsch – Economist and principal of Queen's University[11]
• Harriet Dobbs – Artist, writer and humanitarian[9]
• George Monro Grant – Minister and principal of Queen's College[11]
• John Hamilton – Politician and cofounder of Queen's University
• George Airey Kirkpatrick – Politician and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario[9]
• Thomas Kirkpatrick – First mayor of the Town of Kingston
• William Leitch – Scientist and principal of Queen's University.[11]
• Evan MacColl – the poet of Loch Fyne
• John A. Macdonald – First Prime Minister of Canada[6]
• Archibald Cameron Macdonell – Police officer and soldier[9]
• Agnes Maule Machar – Author, poet and social reformer[9]
• John Machar – Principal of Queen's University[11]
• William Archibald Mackintosh – Economist and principal of Queen's University[11]
• Thomas McLeod – Scottish sailor who took part in three expeditions to the South Pole[9]
• James Morton – Politician, and businessman[9]
• Edward John Barker Pense – Politician, and newspaper editor[9]
• Guilford Bevil Reed – Canadian medical researcher[11]
• James Richardson – Businessman, founder of James Richardson and Sons, Limited[9]
• James Sampson – Doctor, politician and a founder of Kingston General Hospital[9]
• Charles Sangster – Poet, fellow of the Royal Society[9]
• David Chadwick Smith – Economist and principal of Queen's University[11]
• Henry Smith – Politician and lawyer[9]
• James T. Sutherland – Soldier, and Hockey Hall of Fame member[9]
• Robert Charles Wallace – Geologist, educator, academic administrator[11]
• Zachary Taylor Wood – Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police, and Yukon Territory

• Jennifer McKendry (1995). Weep not for me : A photographic essay and history of Cataraqui Cemetery Kingston, Ontario
• John H. Grenville (2000). An illustrated guide to monuments, memorials & markers in the Kingston area Kingston Historical Society Plaque Committee, Kingston, Ontario, Kingston Historical Society
• Jennifer McKendry (2003). Into the silent land : historic cemeteries & graveyards in Ontario, Kingston, Ont., ISBN 978-0969718758

Media related to Cataraqui Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons

• History of Catarqui Cemetery
• Cataraqui Cemetery at Find a Grave