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The Ontario government is looking for anyone who might be related to human bones recently discovered at a burial site under Sparks Street in order to determine what should be done with the remains.
The human remains were discovered in December during the installation of a gas line outside the building at 62 Sparks St., which used to be a bank. The location is now home of the soon-to-open restaurant The Riviera.
Upon further investigation by the Ontario government and other stakeholders, this area was revealed to be part of the former Barrack Hill Cemetery.
The provincial government is now looking for anyone who may be related to those interred in the cemetery so the remains can be re-interred elsewhere. A notice from the Ontario government that appeared in the March 30 edition of the Ottawa Citizen says the site is “of great historical and archaeological significance.”
Those who think they may be related to someone buried in Barrack Hill Cemetery have until April 20 to contact Ontario’s Registrar of burial sites at 416-212-7499.
The landowner, 61 Queen Limited, is responsible under law for ensuring the remains are not disturbed until the province and a representative of the interred reach an agreement. 61 Queen Limited is also responsible for all costs associated with re-interring the remains as well as financing the investigation into whether or not the site is in fact a burial ground.
“We’re going to follow the process and we have no problem doing that,” said Michael Casey the vice-president of Arnon Corporation, which manages the property. “We want to be respectful.”
Researchers say the cemetery sits within the borders of Queen Street to the south, Sparks Street to the north, Metcalfe Street to the west and Elgin Street to the east.
A different section of the Barrack Hill Cemetery was found in 2013 during the excavation of the LRT confederation line one block south on Queen Street.
Ben Mortimer, one of the archaeologists who participated in the investigation of both burial sites, said the Queen Street site produced 19 burials, 22 burial features and “thousands of scattered bone fragments.
“Of the 500 people who are likely buried there, we found 19 of them and we’re trying to find out who they are,” Mortimer said.
If no relatives come forward, a representative of the deceased is chosen by the landowner. The representative is usually a person or group who will act as a custodian of the remains in a dignified way.
The representative for the deceased in the Queen Street site was a coalition of Catholic, Presbyterian, and Anglican churches. Those bones are now at the Canadian Museum of History, where they are being examined.
When testing is finished on the bones, they will be interred at Beechwood Cemetery.
Those who wish to prove their link to those interred at the site will need some form of documentary evidence. Mortimer says the chances of being able to prove a link are “very, very slim.”
Barrack Hill was the name of the location where Parliament Hill now stands. Due to the cemetery’s proximity to the hill, it took on the name of the nearby landform.
The cemetery was in operation from 1827 to 1845. According to the Ontario government, the site could be where many of Ottawa’s earliest residents are buried, along with some who died during the construction of the Rideau Canal.
When the cemetery closed down in 1845, relatives of those interred there had the option of exhuming the remains, and re-interring them elsewhere.
Many of those who were removed from the Barrack Hill site were interred at Sandy Hill Cemetery, which is also no longer in existence. Sandy Hill Cemetery now sits underneath Macdonald Gardens Park in Lowertown.
As for why some remains weren’t removed from Barrack Hill in the 1840s, Mortimer says this might be because relatives could not afford it.
“For the most part, these are the people we are finding,” he said. “The poor people of Bytown.”
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The human remains were discovered in December during the installation of a gas line outside the building at 62 Sparks St., which used to be a bank. The location is now home of the soon-to-open restaurant The Riviera.
Upon further investigation by the Ontario government and other stakeholders, this area was revealed to be part of the former Barrack Hill Cemetery.
The provincial government is now looking for anyone who may be related to those interred in the cemetery so the remains can be re-interred elsewhere. A notice from the Ontario government that appeared in the March 30 edition of the Ottawa Citizen says the site is “of great historical and archaeological significance.”
Those who think they may be related to someone buried in Barrack Hill Cemetery have until April 20 to contact Ontario’s Registrar of burial sites at 416-212-7499.
The landowner, 61 Queen Limited, is responsible under law for ensuring the remains are not disturbed until the province and a representative of the interred reach an agreement. 61 Queen Limited is also responsible for all costs associated with re-interring the remains as well as financing the investigation into whether or not the site is in fact a burial ground.
“We’re going to follow the process and we have no problem doing that,” said Michael Casey the vice-president of Arnon Corporation, which manages the property. “We want to be respectful.”
Researchers say the cemetery sits within the borders of Queen Street to the south, Sparks Street to the north, Metcalfe Street to the west and Elgin Street to the east.
A different section of the Barrack Hill Cemetery was found in 2013 during the excavation of the LRT confederation line one block south on Queen Street.
Ben Mortimer, one of the archaeologists who participated in the investigation of both burial sites, said the Queen Street site produced 19 burials, 22 burial features and “thousands of scattered bone fragments.
“Of the 500 people who are likely buried there, we found 19 of them and we’re trying to find out who they are,” Mortimer said.
If no relatives come forward, a representative of the deceased is chosen by the landowner. The representative is usually a person or group who will act as a custodian of the remains in a dignified way.
The representative for the deceased in the Queen Street site was a coalition of Catholic, Presbyterian, and Anglican churches. Those bones are now at the Canadian Museum of History, where they are being examined.
When testing is finished on the bones, they will be interred at Beechwood Cemetery.
Those who wish to prove their link to those interred at the site will need some form of documentary evidence. Mortimer says the chances of being able to prove a link are “very, very slim.”
Barrack Hill was the name of the location where Parliament Hill now stands. Due to the cemetery’s proximity to the hill, it took on the name of the nearby landform.
The cemetery was in operation from 1827 to 1845. According to the Ontario government, the site could be where many of Ottawa’s earliest residents are buried, along with some who died during the construction of the Rideau Canal.
When the cemetery closed down in 1845, relatives of those interred there had the option of exhuming the remains, and re-interring them elsewhere.
Many of those who were removed from the Barrack Hill site were interred at Sandy Hill Cemetery, which is also no longer in existence. Sandy Hill Cemetery now sits underneath Macdonald Gardens Park in Lowertown.
As for why some remains weren’t removed from Barrack Hill in the 1840s, Mortimer says this might be because relatives could not afford it.
“For the most part, these are the people we are finding,” he said. “The poor people of Bytown.”
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