St. Matthew’s Anglican Church Cemetery - Grenville Village, Grenville Township, Argenteuil County, Quebec

By Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society

The earliest burial recorded in this book is 3rd March 1821. The most recent burial included in this book was in 1978. 

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Contents include

• Introduction
• Location and access
• Condition of stones/cemetery [1979]
• Historical sketches [borrows heavily from the book by Cyrus Thomas, History of the Counties of Argenteuil and Prescott published 1896, reprinted by Global in 1999, which is a comprehensive history of the county with much specific information on individuals and families]
• Anglican Church
• Presbyterian Church
• Royal Staff Corps
• Key to photographs
• Photographs (4)
• Map of the area surrounding the cemetery
• Plot map with numbering of individual burials in the cemetery
• Inscriptions of all stones (as of 1977)
• Nominal Index (cross referenced Name to plot number) 

Background

This book is a re-keyed reprint of the original book published in 1979. No additional or new information has been added since 1979.

St. Matthew's Church and cemetery are situated a few hundred feet from the Grenville Military Canal (now mostly submerged since the reconstruction of the Carillon Dam) and a few hundred yards from the Ottawa River where the Long Sault rapids once originated.

Recorded by Samuel David Dodd and Clarence X. Dodd, 1977. Checked by Lily M. Dodd, Barbara Laliberté, Hélène Laliberté, 1978. Compiled and Indexed by Clarence X. Dodd, 1979, Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society

Details

• 34 Pages
• 8.5 X 11"
• Coil bound
• Index
• Originally published by Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1979. Original ISBN: (none on record)
• This reprint published by Global Heritage Press, Ottawa 2021. New ISBN 978-1-77240-181-3 (coil bound edition)