In this series, the Museum collected records on cemeteries the bulk of which are about the Arnprior Albert Street Cemetery.;
Arnprior and District Museum collection F4.5, F4.6, F5.1, F5.2;
Series: Cemeteries;
Subseries:Arnprior Cemetery Committee. -- 1862-1920; 1972. -- 37.7 cm of textual records.;
The Arnprior Cemetery is the burying ground of all Protestant denominations and fraternal societies, located at the mouth of the Madawaska River. It is also known as the Inch Bhui cemetery and the Yellow Isle after the ancient burying place of the Clan McNab in Perthshire, Scotland. The Arnprior plot was set aside as a burying ground by Chief McNab in the early days of the settlement and it first appears in legal documents as a reservation in a deed dated March 22, 1847 from Archibald McNab to Charles S. Middleton which covered all of McNab’s property in the vicinity of Arnprior. In 1862, a meeting was held at Edey’s Hotel in Arnprior to fence and further improve the grave yard. Eric Harrington was Secretary-Treasurer. From 1878-1889, the grave yard became a favorite pasture for the village cows; in 1889, a new committee was formed with T.W. Kenny as Chairman. Under Kenny’s leadership, the cemetery once again became a beautiful spot. In 1903, M.D. Graham was Secretary-Treasurer. The care of the cemetery was eventually taken over by a Board of Trustees organized under an Ontario Statute. Series contains such records as the following: vouchers, receipts, payments and other accounting records related to the costs of managing the cemetery (1897, 1899, from 1902 to 1920), records about the purchase of land to expand the cemetery (lots 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34 on Albert Street), a March 1862 letter from John Robertson about three subscriptions, an accounting book (1896-1915), 1862 minutes about the setting up of the fence and care for the grave yard, March 28, 1862 subscription list to build fence at cemetery, an article by Charles McNamara about the cemetery, orders of service, 2 copies of the Index to the cemetery plots published by the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, and a 1918 deed to lot 485 part of Arnprior cemetery paid by Lindsay A. Whyte;
Arnprior and District Museum collection F5.2;
Subseries: Other Cemeteries. -- 1972 --. 0.3 cm of textual records.;
Subseries contains service programs of other cemeteries and a napkin for Middleville Pioneer Cemetery.;