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The Quebec Family History Society is proud to publish the memorial stone
inscriptions from the Lachute Protestant Cemetery. The cemetery is located east of
Lachute on Route 158 in Argenteuil County, Quebec. Lachute is about 45 miles
L northwest of the City of Montreal.
This is one of the oldest and largest non-Catholic cemeteries outside the metro-
politan areas of Montreal and Quebec City. The cemetery has many mature trees
L and shrubs and is maintained exceptionally well. There are tombstones dating as
far back as the early years of the nineteenth century.
A total of 1,984 stones were recorded with several additional names (gravesites
1 without markers) contributed by Robert Hugh Morrison. With an index listing over

5,000 names, we feel this publication will be very usefull for anyone interested in
family history in Argenteuil County and Lachute in particular.
L This work contains the inscriptions from all memorial stones in existence as of

May 1992. Recording of the stones was done in the autumn of 1991 and spring of
t 1992. The stones were recorded in sequence according to the location map included
as Appendix "A".
The cemetery is divided roughly into an eastern and western section with a
tendency for the people from the Brownsburg area to be buried in the eastern
L section in olden days and residents of the Lachute area to be buried in the western
section.
In any cemetery, there are more people buried than the names on tombstones
1 would indicate. The official cemetery records date from World War I so that burial

entries prior to that should be looked for in the burial registers of the appropriate
L Protestant churches of the area.
Copies of the Protestant church registers for Argenteuil County for the period
prior to 1900 are available at the Montreal branch of the Archives Nationales du
l Quebec:

Centre D'Archives de la Metropole Montreal
L 1945 rue Mullins, Montreal, Quebec H3K 1N9
Archives Nationales du Quebec

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l Carol Truesdell, editor

Gary Schroder, project coordinator
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