Fernhill Cemetery
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Fernhill Cemetery, originally known as the Rural Cemetery at the time it opened in 1848, is located at 200 Westmorland Road in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Renamed Fernhill in 1899, the 125 acre (0.5 km²) cemetery has a special section for veterans of both World War I and World War II, and is the burial site of one of only a few Canadians to ever receive the United States highest military decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
At the time the cemetery opened, the Church of England was the official Church of Britain and her colonies and as such there is a designated area for Church of England members. In the cemetery's Jewish section, a stone chapel was built in 1950 with the help of Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer, who was raised in Saint John and whose mother is interred here.
A few of the notable persons interred in the Fernhill Cemetery include:
- Amos Edwin Botsford (1804-1894), statesman
- Robert Foulis (1796-1866), engineer and artist
- John Douglas Hazen (1860-1937), statesman, Premier of New Brunswick
- George E. King (1839-1901), statesman, Premier of New Brunswick, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- George Frederick Phillips (1862-1908) Spanish-American War hero, U.S. Medal of Honor
- William H. Steeves (1814-1873), a father of Confederation
- Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (1818-1896), a father of Confederation
- W. Rupert Turnbull (1870-1954), aeronautical engineer, inventor
- John Frederick Young (1871-1890), songwriter
See also: List of famous cemeteries