Riverside Memorial Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 46.219566, -71.379816
County: Megantic
Record count: 725

Ownership: Riverside Cemetery Association

Directions: To reach Kinnear Mills from Sherbrooke, Quebec, take Route 112 to Thetford Mines, and then Route 269 towards Quebec City. Historical Kinnear Mills, with its population of about 800, is located 100 miles north east of Sherbrooke, Quebec, on Route 269.

Background:

Few places evoke the past like Kinnear Mills. An interesting blend of colonial church styles moved Quebec to grant the small village official status as an historic site in 1980. Scotchman, James Kinnear, after whom this community is named, was one of the main pioneers of Kinnear's Mills. He and his English-born wife, Harriet Wilson, are resting here.

The cemetery is owned and maintained by the Riverside Memorial Cemetery Association, and is still an active cemetery. It surrounds the Candlish United Church located in the center of the village, and as the name suggests, the Osgood River flows along one side of it. It is very well kept and the stones are in good shape.

Burial Records

• Tombstone Transcription, by Joan Cruickshank, Summer 2005, (725 records)

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