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Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery

Sub-sections:

Baron de Hirsch Back River Eternal Gardens Kehal Israel Mount Pleasant Shaar Hashomayim Spanish & Portuguese Mount Royal

The Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery dates back to the late 1800s and is still in active use. It is located about five miles from downtown Montreal. For additional information, contact The Back River Memorial Gardens, c/o Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, 5015 de la Savane, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4P 1V1, Tel: 514-735-4696, Fax 514-735-4698, Email: bdh@barondehirsch.com Website: BarondeHirsch.com

Gate with map showing sections

Resources

Overview of the south half of the cemetery, showing dozens of rows with hundreds of gravestones, perhaps 10% of which have bright red flower beds

The Back River Cemetery includes 21 sections listed below. 6521 burials were registered in 2006, and photographs were added for 99% of burials in 2015. In 2018, over 1000 photographs were upgraded, and hundreds of records were updated with translations of Hebrew. Read about the update and the "Problem Gravestones" of Montreal's Back River Cemetery

Burial Data and Photos

On behalf of the Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery, the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal submitted a full listing of all Back River burials to the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register - JOWBR.

Alan Greenberg formatted and submitted the first burial data to JOWBR in 2006, updated in 2012. Merle Kastner photographed the entire Back River in 2007, submitted to JOWBR by Gary Perlman in 2015, updated in 2018. Translations and data validation assistance were provided by Steve Goldberg. Additional assistance was provided by Cindy Hershon and Eric Goldberg.

Sections

Map # Section Overview Burials Schematic Map
B8 Adath Jeshurun 1 AJ1 392 PDF
B7 Adath Jeshurun 2 AJ2 310 PDF
A9 Baron de Hirsch Benevolent Assoc. BHB 49 PDF
A13 Beth David BD 164 PDF
A12 B'Nai Jacob Old BJo 449 PDF
A5 B'Nai Jacob New BJn 805 PDF
A10 B'Nai Jacob Extension BJe 65 PDF
B5 Chevra Kadisha Old CKo 798 PDF
B4 Chevra Kadisha New CKn 746 PDF
B1 Chevra Kadisha Extension CKe 90 PDF
B9 Hungarian Hebrew HH 331 PDF
B6 King Edward Old KEo 558 PDF
B2 King Edward New KEn 699 PDF
B6 King Edward Baby KEb 36 PDF
A8 Shaare Tefillah Old STo 205 PDF
A3 Shaare Tefillah New STn 282 PDF
A2 Shaare Zion SZ 355 PDF
A1 Shevat Achim SA 87 PDF
A6 Sons of Israel SI 183 PDF
A7 Temple Solomon Old TSo 156 PDF
A4 Temple Solomon New TSn 161 PDF