The CSIS National Memorial Cemetery
The CSIS National Memorial Cemetery A memorial to those who served courageously in the shadows The CSIS National Memorial Cemetery is an outward appreciation of the service of the CSIS…
No Longer Forgotten or Friendless: A history of Ottawa’s Protestant Orphans Home, Protestant Home for the Aged, and Home for Friendless Women
A short distance from the St. Laurent Blvd entrance to Beechwood, along the road marked with a yellow stripe, are three side-by-side monuments which identify the burial plots of the…
The Great Beechwood Cemetery Tree Clean Up
Beechwood Cemetery Foundation thanks the community for help. We have all been dealing with the LDD Moth problem in the trees in our community. Beechwood has been looking into different…
Echo the Fox
Beechwood’s Echo the Fox is a companion for children during funeral services, a companion to hold and cuddle when things get too confusing or difficult. Given at the time of…
A notable tradition, but not a tradition noted
The morning of October 4th, 2021, Ambassador Ines Coppoolse and Defense Attaché Ton Linssen from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Canada, alongside Beechwood Cemetery’s Chief Horticulturalist,…
Project of Heart Memory Labyrinth at Beechwood Cemetery Walkthrough
The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day at Beechwood Cemetery Join us at the Beechwood National Memorial Center’s Sacred Space for the first ever full public…
If this is not a genocide, then what is it? – Indigenous residential school students honoured at Beechwood Cemetery
The 57,000 children estimated to have died at Canada’s Indian residential schools were symbolically reunited for the first time on Wednesday — the eve of the first National Day for…
Project of Heart on display at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa
OTTAWA — Inside a room at Beechwood Cemetery lies tens of thousands of hand-drawn or painted tiles—a powerful display made in honour of the Indigenous children and youth who went…
Walking a path of hope and sorrow at Beechwood Cemetery
Under the skylight of the domed Sacred Space building on the grounds of Beechwood Cemetery, a group of Indigenous young people is meticulously arranging thousands of tiny tiles across the floor. Each tile,…
Thousands of tiles designed by students honour children of residential schools
For the first-ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, history teacher Sylvia Smith says volunteers laid out 57,000 tiles at the Beechwood Cemetery commemorating the history of residential schools. Volunteer…