Welcome
You are welcome here
Whether you have come to arrange a burial, to trace an ancestor, or simply to walk among the stones on a summer evening, this site is here to help you.
The cemetery sits on Butler Road in the hamlet of Hammond, in the City of Clarence-Rockland, about forty kilometres east of Ottawa. It occupies part of Lot 17, Concession VIII, former Clarence Township, County of Russell — the same survey description used when the first graves were dug here in the nineteenth century.
It is a small burial ground, and it has never had paid staff. Everything you see when you visit — the mown grass, the straightened stones, the record books — is the work of volunteers and of the families who have chosen to be buried here.
How we can help
Start here
Lot information
What kinds of lots are available, how many burials each one holds, what you may place on a grave, and how interment rights actually work in Ontario.
Lots & interment →Price list
Our full published price list, in the format required of every licensed cemetery in Ontario. Free to read here, free to print, and available in paper on request.
See prices →Burial records
Searching for an ancestor or a family grave? Start with our index, then write to us and a volunteer will check the register by hand.
Search the records →Visiting
Directions from Ottawa, Rockland and Bourget, what to expect when you arrive, and what we ask of visitors in order to keep the grounds safe.
Plan your visit →Rules & regulations
Decoration policy, monument specifications, grounds maintenance and the seasonal clean-up dates. Worth reading before you plant or place anything.
Read the rules →Support the cemetery
Grass does not cut itself and old stones do not right themselves. Donations pay for mowing, stone conservation and the restoration of unreadable markers.
Ways to help →History
Older than the village around it
The settlement that became Hammond was known as North Indian when Loyalist descendants began clearing the pine forest here in the 1880s. The first families — Miller, Armstrong, Price, Candiff, McLean, Butler, Cooper, Watson and Kinnaird — were largely English-speaking and Protestant, and they needed a burial ground of their own.
That is the ground you are standing on. The road it fronts still carries the name of one of those first families.
Memorial counts are drawn from the cemetery’s Find a Grave listing and are a floor, not a total: many early graves here were never marked, and some markers have become unreadable. If you know of a burial that is missing, we would be glad to hear from you.