Page 7 - Dictionary of Heraldry and Related Subjects

The 19305 raw some inportant changes in the cemetery. A! the 1923 annual vestry
arrting. it rai dec ded to ark owner* nf the variot~s loti in :he cesietery to rsnove
all railinqr around tbe plots in order to facilitate the work or beautifying the
re~lleterv. This matter took rolne rear, to complete; the work of illnproring the burial
qrourlrl *'as still telng danr t,y 1935.:14)
Furtiler organization of the cemetery came with the decision in 1041 to irrplement
a perpetual rare rchcne. 4 cemetery plan war drawn up by George Hopper and .John
l'rost, and a committee was formed of these (men and Robert Bradley and Charles Hopper
to conlpile a list ei people to be ap?marhed for the "yearly Jpkeep or perpetual rare"
In tlir following jew, record war male of dl: the graver. Charges were ta be levled
~qainst each grave for it; maintenance by the owners and were to be paid regularly
or elre no grave world he orleced at any time (15)
The growth of tl'e Merivale congregation with Nepean's development as a suburb of
Ottawa in the 1150s brold5ht about some changer. St. Mark's, at Carleton iieights,
rearlted fro,,, St. John and held its flrrt official rertr-y meeting in January 1950.
chur-ill was conitrmucted acd dedirated in 1955.(161 It was alro decided to bilild a
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nee place of worship for St. John's Anglican. In January 1962, a A0-year leare was
sigred allowing the Clurcl tn uie a lot of a3proximately lJ0.010 rqusre feet, quad-
I-UI'IE the area of its "erivale Road rite. along the north ride of Slack Road less
than a n,.ile frer the cri?inal rhurrh.(l7) T-e new St. John the Divine war opened in
llh6 The 3hnndorrd St. lnln church was dismantled, leaving room for the Cealetery
to expand.
Tlit NLPI'I4LC CE12ETER'! - P
Thc nnn-denomillatiorlal part of the burial ground is the largest of the three
sections. It was apcarently started bv ir'illianl Hopper as early as 1876,118) the year
ttlr Znglicln. r~cci..rd t'l~ir parcel af land. The earliert burials in the private
section tn~k place igut~ of the lngican property near Merivale Road and alro
dircctly b-hind tie 4nglican r;rtion.l19)
,At thi, tllrr of tqe ctntury, Williain David Hopper of Che;sea, fanner; Anne
Sparling Anqus, of Nepean, wife of George hngu;; and Rrr. Llira Church ot Unuphin.
,"dnitobd dcqc~ir-ed do;r.o~imately six acres ddjaceot to the two Protestant church
pl.oP~~.ties at Yerivale. The land war to be used for the purposes of a proposed
Merivale Ce:nel~ry 1:nrnpnny In >une 1000 they bought this property frm Hen,-y Hocper.
adlninlitrator of the eitatt of the late William Hopper for one dolIar.(lO)
Over the next 58 yedrr, the Holperr of this Company ntaintained the business,
rellinrr lots to loin1 rericentr of whom nlany had forebears interred in the slowly
crowding church cen:eteriei. The ill-health of Arthur B. Hopper in 1958 led to the
~dle of the business to rolne local 3usinerrmen.(2l) From that time, the operation af
the ccnlrtery was harrdled br secr.eta8.y-nianagrr, John G. Cole fvam the Pinecrest
C~netery affirp.