Tuesday, June 24, 2025

FLASHBACK: Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (2007)

While Thom was working, I spent a full afternoon meandering through Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.  With more than million burials, it's Canada's largest.  The blooming tulips and simplicity of this headstone made it my favorite.
 

Depictions of the Virgin Mary vary greatly.






Plenty of angels and other women can be found, too.  Men, apart from Jesus, not so much.




I'd never seen tombstones with photographic reproductions of the people they honor.


Sentimentality takes as many forms as the Virgin. 





There's definitely a right side of the tracks in Notre Dame des Neiges





. . .  as well as a wrong side, where wooden crosses, 



. . . crucifixes




. . . and plastic flowers dominate.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, although a few of the more imposing mausoleums did make me curious enough about the people who had built them to do some internet research.  After discovering that a single man with an elaborate tomb had been the furniture designer for Montreal's middle class in the 19th century, I mused that perhaps cremation shouldn't be my only end-of-life option.  A simple marker engraved with the URL for this blog would increase the chances of random resurrection, virtually of course!


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