Carved In Stone: Canadian Cemetery Project
Date of Birth 1907-04-16 Valcourt, QC Date of Death 1964-02-18 Sherbrooke, QC Joseph-Armand Bombardier, engineer, entrepreneur, inventor of the snowmobile and Ski-Doo (born 16 April 1907 in Valcourt, QC; died 18 February 1964 in Sherbrooke, QC). While Bombardier’s many inventions … Continued
Percy Faith was a music producer, band-leader and pianist, Faith is best known for his composition, Theme From a Summer Place.
Born: 10 February 1878, Hensall Date of death: 26 February 1981Place of Burial: Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Date of Birth 1900-07-23, Frontenac County, Ontario Date of Death 2010-02-18, Spokane, Washington Also known as John Henry Foster Babcock, Jack Babcock John Babcock was the last known surviving veteran of the Canadian military to have served in the First … Continued
Also known as: Viola Irene Davis Date of Birth: July 6, 1914 in Halifax Nova Scotia Date of Death: February 7, 1965 in New York, USA Viola Irene Desmond was a Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova … Continued
Date of Birth1890-03-24 Date of Death1954-02-13 Agnes MacPhail was Canada’s first woman Member of Parliament. She was elected in the 1921 federal election. She was a champion of the rights of farmers, women and prisoners was Canada’s first woman delegate … Continued
Born: January 11, 1887 Died: February 19, 1963 Kerr worked as a lumberjack near Kootenay, BC; 1912 bought a homestead in Spirit River, Alberta, where he and his brother farmed until war broke out; 1914 they set out for Edmonton, … Continued
Section 7 Lot 4196
Date of Birth 1891-11-14 Place of birth: Alliston, Ontario Date of Death 1941-02-21 Place of death: near Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland Cause of death: Airplane crash Also known as Sir Frederick Grant Banting Frederick Banting was the discoverer of insulin and … Continued
Born 22 February 1947 Montréal, QC.
Died 22 February 2006 Tillsonburg, ON.