Notre-Dames-des-Neiges Cemetery

• Grievers protest months-long cemetery standoff that’s left over 300 bodies unburied

  The labour dispute has left more than 300 bodies unburied, with the remains stored at freezing temperatures in an on-site repository.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2023
  
• Tentative deal means Montreal cemetery could soon reopen to grieving families

  The strike by more than 100 maintenance and office workers has kept the graveyard's iron gates shut to the public since mid-January, with the exception of a few days in the spring.

  Canada

  Jun 15, 2023
  
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• Canada’s biggest cemetery has been closed for 5 months. Families are now calling on the province to intervene

  More than 250 bodies have gone unburied this year at a Montreal cemetery as a result of a labour standoff, with the remains stored at freezing temperature in an on-site repository.

  Canada

  May 14, 2023
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• Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery will reopen, union and management to meet next week

  The cemetery in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Monteal, which has been dealing with a strike by operations and maintenance employees, closed its gates in mid-January.

  Canada

  Mar 22, 2023