Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal Cemetery Project Memorializing the Jewish families who walked in our midst Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery

Baron de Hirsch Back River Eternal Gardens Kehal Israel Mount Pleasant Shaar Hashomayim Spanish & Portuguese Mount Royal

The Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery dates back to the late 1800s and is still in active use. It is located about five miles from downtown Montreal. For additional information, contact The Back River Memorial Gardens, c/o Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, 5015 de la Savane, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4P 1V1, Tel: 514-735-4696, Fax 514-735-4698, Email: bdh@barondehirsch.com Website: BarondeHirsch.com

Resources

• How to locate burials at other cemeteries and for additional sources of information
• Old Cemetery Map
• New Cemetery Map
• Google maps 45.551195, -73.655927 (which is near the Sauve Metro station)
• FindaGrave.com

The Back River Cemetery includes 21 sections listed below. 6521 burials were registered in 2006, and photographs were added for 99% of burials in 2015. In 2018, over 1000 photographs were upgraded, and hundreds of records were updated with translations of Hebrew. Read about the update and the "Problem Gravestones" of Montreal's Back River Cemetery

Burial Data and Photos

On behalf of the Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery, the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal submitted a full listing of all Back River burials to the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register - JOWBR.

Alan Greenberg formatted and submitted the first burial data to JOWBR in 2006, updated in 2012. Merle Kastner photographed the entire Back River in 2007, submitted to JOWBR by Gary Perlman in 2015, updated in 2018. Translations and data validation assistance were provided by Steve Goldberg. Additional assistance was provided by Cindy Hershon and Eric Goldberg.

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