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• 1 2025-07-21T18:42:13+00:00 Residents of 146 Bayswater 9 Ana Teoh Residents 1 plain 146 2025-08-05T18:53:25+00:00 Both Catholic and Protestant churches arrived in Hintonburg around 1890. Many Catholics attended St. François d’Assisse, the large French Catholic church. The residents of 146 Bayswater largely attended United or Methodist churches. The sole exception seems to be the Seamans who lived in the building by 1938. They were members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, on what is now Young St. When the Seamans’ daughter Anne died at twelve years old, her body was interred at the Notre Dame Cemetery. Almost all other deaths at 146 Bayswater were interred at Beechwood Cemetery, which was originally a Protestant cemetery.
  
  Beechwood was established in 1873, and has been called the National Cemetery of Canada since 2009. It was the third cemetery to be opened in Ottawa. The very first cemetery was the Barrack Hill Cemetery, commissioned by Lieutenant-Colonel John By in 1826 due to the influx of disease and death caused by the sudden increase of the population. This was located within the space now bounded by Sparks, Elgin, Albert, and Metcalfe streets. Ottawa grew in size from 1,000 to 2,000 people over the course of twenty years, and Barrack Hill Cemetery was closed in 1845 to accommodate the need for more residential space. Many of those bodies were reinterred in Sandy Hill Cemetery. However, in 1873, the city council was concerned that cemeteries transmitted diseases such as cholera or smallpox and ruled that all bodies must be buried outside the city limits. Sandy Hill was closed and bodies were once again reinterred in Beechwood. The cemetery quickly became a popular place for an outing: many people enjoyed visiting its Botanical Gardens and some have since chosen to be buried there. Doubtless the reason why almost all the residents of 146 Bayswater have been buried in Beechwood is because it was the nearest Protestant cemetery, and certainly the biggest.
  
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