After years of consideration, hesitation, and due diligence, vice president Charles Thorburn had shoveled the first sod for a community mausoleum. Looking on had been cemetery representatives along with the…
The artist has been a part of the Bytown/Ottawa community since settlement began near the locks that join the Rideau Canal to the Ottawa River. The canal’s construction (from 1826…
Overlooking the Parliament of Canada, Poet’s Hill stands tall above the city that has changed so much since Beechwood first opened its doors in 1873. The meandering path climbing alongside…
Soloist Chelsea Honeyman signing Merry Little Christmas in our century Beechwood Mausoleum.
Whatever your wishes, Beechwood has everything in one beautiful location: visitation, informal gathering, life celebration, memorial service, funeral, catered reception, cremation, burial, monuments and many other memorialization choices. You can…
The Hall of Colours, created in 2007, is a dignified and honourable resting place for unit Colours which are to be laid-up. The retired Colours (flags) of Canada’s army, naval…
The painting by Emily Mary Bibbens Warren, titled: “ Canada’s Tribute, The Great War 1914–1919 or Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe’s Monument in Westminster Abbey” represents a Chaplain laying…
Founded in 2000, the Beechwood Cemetery Foundation was created to safeguard Beechwood’s future and increase public awareness, as well as the important historical persons buried within it. For 21 years,…
A wreath-laying ceremony to honour Canadian Armed Forces members was able to go forward this weekend despite thousands of the handmade decorations being stolen only a week before. Dozens of…
With wreaths wrapped around their arms, volunteers and veterans walked through snowy rows of graves in the National Military Cemetery at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa, gently laying the handmade decorations…
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