Churches and Cemeteries
History on churches, cemeteries and related inormation in the Gatineau Valley
Churches and Places of Worship History on churches and places of worship in the Gatineau Valley and related information.
Cemeteries and Burial Grounds History on cemeteries and burial grounds in the Gatineau Valley and related information.
Church Records Searchable database compiled from an index to church records in the Wakefield area.
Additional resources:
GVHS Archives Church Holdings A list of the library and archives holdings in the GVHS Archives covering Gatineau Valley churches.
GVHS Archives Cemetery Holdings
A list of the library and archives holdings in the GVHS Archives covering Gatineau Valley cemeteries.
Unto the Hills
By Norma and Stuart Geggie, 1976. A history of the United Church of Canada, in the charges of Alcove, Wakefield, Cascades and Rupert, in the province of Quebec, over a period of one hundred and forty-five years.
"In Memory Of" Chelsea's Historic Cemeteries: Community Institutions from Pioneer Times to the Present 
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by Jean Carol Craig Martin, 2011. This is the 1999 thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Ottawa, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the M. A. degree in History. The author of this thesis, historian Carol Martin, wrote an expanded print version in 2005, which was published by the GVHS and remains available for sale.
A Place Apart 4.5 MB
by Norma Geggie, 1999. This is a brief history of traditional cemeteries from Hull to Lac-Sainte-Marie, Quebec, as well as private and unmarked burial grounds in the Gatineau Valley. The hard copy publication is out-of-print, but is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, Norma Geggie.
The MacLaren Cemetery, Wakefield, and the Old Chelsea Protestant Burial Ground, Quebec 15 MB
by Michael Newton (National Capital Commission, 1986). Report on the physical history landscaping of these cemeteries.