Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), with the assistance of two students Holly Miller and Nikita Tetarenko, has completed the Mount Hermon Cemetery burial registry database, Le registre d’inhumation du Mount Hermon Cemetery, 1848-1950., adding almost 5,000 names.
There are now 13,291 entries for the Protestant cemetery in Sillery, a borough of Quebec City, up to 1950. In all, more than 17,000 people are buried in the cemetery.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
BAnQ’s Mount Hermon Cemetery registry contains several search fields: first and last name, date of burial, location, date of death, age, place of death, place of birth, religion, church, minister, profession, and illness or cause of death. From 1936, the date of death is indicated, and from 1941, the name of the church is noted.
The search fields are written in French and English. The information about the deceased is in the language of the original register, which is usually, if not always, in English.
Below the search fields is a lengthy description about the cemetery, written in French. To read it in English, copy and paste the URL into Google Translate and click on the translated link.
Even better, if you add Google Chrome as a browser to your computer, you can simply right-click to translate the entire page into English. The browser is free. You can continue to use your regular browser for everyday use.
Mount Hermon’s website provides a brief history of the cemetery and a map.
To find all the genealogy-related databases on the BAnQ website, click on the Collections tab, and then select Genealogy. Once on the Genealogy page, do not select English because it will remove all the content, which is in French. (Use Google Translate or Google Chrome.)
On a personal note, while attending university, I lived almost four years around the corner from this beautiful cemetery.
