Ancestry has added the Quebec City, Quebec, Mount Hermon Cemetery Index, 1846-1904 database to its website. You can access this database for free even if you are not an Ancestry subscriber because it is from the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) where the online bilingual English and French index can also be researched for free here.
Mount Hermon is a Protestant cemetery in Sillery, a Quebec City suburb, that opened at a time when the population was about 40 percent Anglophone.
This index provides first and last names and may also include the occupation, date and place of birth, and date, place, and cause of death, name of clergyman, religion, and burial plot. Clicking on the URL in the index takes you to the BAnQ record.
The Mount Hermon Cemetery index for Lieut. Henry Edward Baines who died from injuries in the St. Roch fire when 25,000 houses burned.
In 1989, the Mount Hermon Cemetery index and burial registers, from 1848 to 1950, were microfilmed by BAnQ. A few years ago, BAnQ uploaded onto their website the registers for 8,770 deceased, from 1848 to 1905.
This is the history of the cemetery that appears on the Mount Hermon Cemetery website:
In the spring of 1847 a group of Protestant business, shipbuilders, merchants and clergy called a public meeting to discuss the possibility of buying land for a rural cemetery. The old protestant cemetery located near St. Matthew’s Church on rue Saint-Jean was full and the authorities requested that a new cemetery be established outside the city limited.
With the help of the well-known lumber merchant John Gilmour, member of first municipal council of Sillery and the founder of the cemetery, The Quebec Protestant Cemetery Association was created on February 11th 1848. Its first president was George O’Kill Stuart and its objectives were to collect the money necessary to buy land for a new Protestant cemetery and to lay out such a cemetery. The first Board of Directors was a fine example of ecumenical cooperation in the city of 1848. The deed incorporating the new cemetery was registered on May 30th 1849. It was at this time that the new cemetery was officially given the name of Mount Hermon.
The bilingual Mount Hermon Cemetery website is worth looking at for the photos and a map that shows where some notable people are buried and the location of significant monuments.
