Description

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Street Address: 700 Spring Garden Road

Location: Lot13 Concession 1and Broken Front, East Flamborough Township

Type of Cemetery: Municipal

Responsible Agency: City of Hamilton

This 100 acre property faces Hamilton Harbour. During the War of 1812 a stockade was erected on this site for defensive purposes, while later the stone mansion of Peter Carroll, known as Rock Bay Castle, was constructed. By 1870, the building was used as a resort hotel with an elaborate ballroom, while in the early 1900s it became a clubhouse. Fire destroyed the interior of the mansion in May 1908, and the property was abandoned. With the Hamilton Cemetery on York Street approaching capacity in 1919, the City of Hamilton selected the site as the location for a new cemetery, purchasing it from the Town of East Flamborough for $130,000. The castle ruins were removed in landscaping the property, with the rubble used to build the internal cemetery road system. The first burial took place in 1921 for Mary Parlour.

There are several sections of military graves for Canadian soldiers in the cemetery, and a memorial to those who lost their lives in the Hungarian uprising of 1956.

The cemetery remains in use, operated by the City of Hamilton.

Status for Burials: Open for burials          Plot Plan: Exists

Size:         Large, 38 000 monuments

Fencing: Chain link and hedgerow

Monument Types:      Flat, upright, column and vault Monuments of: Marble, granite, metal and wood

Some Notable Burials:

Mayors of Hamilton:

Lloyd Douglas Jackson (1888-1973),

John Inglis McLaren (1865-1948),

William Robert Morrison,

K.C. (1878-1947)

Margaret Jane Hayworth (1929-1939) First Canadian killed in World War II when the liner, Athenia was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the Irish coast

Frederick Wilson Warren (1887-1959) Architect, Horticulturalist, MPP Sir Edwin Leather (1920-2005) Former Governor of Bermuda