Description

CEM 213-Rev_Smuck (Salem) Cemetery

Other Known Names: Smuck, Smoak, Smoke, Smock, or Salem Methodist Episcopal Church

Street Address: Salem Road, within the boundaries of The John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport

Location: Lot 1, Concession 4, Glanford Township

Type of Cemetery: Religious (Methodist Episcopal, Methodist), Family

Responsible Agency: City of Hamilton

Status for Burials: Closed for Burials       Plot Plan: None

Size:         Small, 37 monuments

Signage: No Signage Fencing: Chain link

Monument Types:      Flat, upright and columns Monuments of: Marble and granite

 

Date of Opening: 1834

 

History:

 

In 1811 Jacob Smoak registered the Crown Patent for Lot 1 in the 4th Concession of Glanford Township. Part of this property was used as a family cemetery as early as 1834. By the 1870s, the land also hosted a Methodist Episcopal Church. Known as the Salem Church, it was part of the Ancaster Episcopal Circuit until 1884, when it became part of the Glanford Methodist Circuit. The church was closed between 1903 and 1905. The cemetery was restored in 1940.

With the expansion of the former John C. Munro International Airport, the cemetery was thought to be threatened, but it has survived relatively untouched, and is now under the care of the City of Hamilton.