Scotch Road Cemetery Association

12/31/2025

12/15/2025

It’s Christmas. Once again. Overwhelmed though we may be by all the strife and turmoil in the world around us, let us pause to reflect on the course of human history. The people buried in Scotch Road Cemetery, some of them 200 years ago, were once alive and dealing with their own reality. They, too, may have looked forward to Christmas, in simple and humble circumstances. Let us remember them at Christmastime. May they inspire us to be grateful and to be a beacon of hope in troubled times. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Peace, Happiness and Prosperity in the New Year.

10/22/2025

Dear SRCA supporters,

The participants' package for the 2025 annual meeting of the Scotch Road Cemetery Association will be sent out via email on October 26th and we will be accepting your responses until November 30th.

If you know of anyone who may be interested in participating in the SRCA online meeting for the first time this year, please have them contact [email protected] so we can add them to the distribution list for this year's meeting package. We are always happy to welcome new participants!

Thank you all for your continued interest and support in preserving one of the oldest cemeteries in Western Quebec and we look forward to your participation this year.

Best regards,
Scotch Road Cemetery Association

09/12/2025

We are re-posting this on behalf of the Avoca Cemetery.

05/20/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxtyiZVW_rI

The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network proudly presents Season 2 of "Raising Spirits: Exploring the Cemeteries, Crossroads and Vanishing Places of Quebec" fi...

03/08/2025

I thought I would share this glimpse of local history again from my FB memories. This is the Presbyterian Church that was built at the junction of Scotch Road which runs north into Grenville Township (now Grenville-sur-la-Rouge) from Grenville, Quebec, and the private road to Scotch Road Cemetery in about 1891. It was built on land in Lot 8A in Range VII deeded by Alexander McPhee, son of Malcolm McPhee who was born in the Parish of Torosay on the Isle of Mull (the eastern side of the island) in 1806 and settled on Scotch Road in November 1821. The Scotch Road community essentially ceased to exist by about 1930. In the early 1930s the Goodlands -- descendants of James Goodland, a member of the Royal Staff Corps which built the Ottawa River canals 1819-1834 -- dismantled the church and moved it up to Kilmar Mines where it was used as a United Church until the 1990s. I remember attending services there in the late 1970s. The building was then sold and moved to Val Carroll where it is used as a wedding chapel.

03/06/2025

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION!

Members of the public are invited to nominate individuals and/or organizations or groups of volunteers that have exhibited dedication and leadership in working towards the preservation and promotion of Quebec's Anglophone heritage. Deadline for nominations: April 1, 2025.

Again this year, QAHN will celebrate its award winners at a special event on June 21 at the Maison Forget in Montreal. Watch for more details soon!

Travel back in time to meet the numerous volunteers – individuals and organizations – that have been recognized for their work in heritage. QAHN launched its Marion Phelps Award back in 2001. In 2010, a second volunteer award was launched: the Richard Evans Award, named for QAHN's founding president. This award recognizes organizations and groups of individuals for their longstanding contribution in heritage.

The 2015 Evans Award went to the Scotch Road Cemetery Association, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the maintenance, preservation and remembrance of the heritage Scotch Road Cemetery where early settlers to the region were buried in Grenville Township in the Lower Laurentians,

To learn more about the work of the Scotch Road Cemetery Association, click here: qahn.org/awardrecipient/scotch-road-cemetery-association

Why not nominate a volunteer for QAHN’s 2025 awards! This year’s winner also receives a cash prize of $500.
qahn.org/news/call-nominations-2025-qahn-volunteer-awards

Photo: Members of the Scotch Road Cemetery Association, 2015.