The Reverend William Squire - On Friday, October 15th 1852, Reverend Squire was asked to go to the Ottawa Hotel to see a merchant who was dying of cholera. The following day, Rev. Squire himself fell ill and died early Sunday morning. On October 19th 1852, mourners in seventy carriages went in procession to Mount Royal Cemetery and many more made their way there on foot. He was the first person buried in Mount Royal Cemetery.

Sir Arthur William Currie - He was the Commander of Canadian Troops during World War I and he was also Principal of McGill University from 1920 to 1933. At his death in 1933, a gigantic funeral procession was organized for him. The crowd was estimated at 20,000 people: politicians, diplomats, military bands and hundreds of veterans attended. The funeral procession left the McGill Campus, walked up Park Avenue and entered the cemetery gates. A military monument, the Cross of Sacrifice, marks his grave.

Joe Beef - His real Irish name was Charles McKiernan. He owned the famous "Joe Beef's Canteen"located near the port. His 3-storey building held a tavern, a restaurant with free food for the homeless, a dorm of 100 beds and a basement full of strange menagerie. He died in 1889 aged 54. His six sons and his wife organized a very impressive funeral for him. Every office in the business district closed for the afternoon and there were representatives of workers from all classes in the procession.

Thomas Lett Hackett - He was a young Irishman murdered on the day that the Orangemen had chosen to parade on the streets of Montreal on July 12, 1877. He was shot during a fight between the Catholic and Protestant Irish. About 3000 Orangemen took part in his funeral procession. They marched from Champs de Mars, to Christ Church Cathedral to the Cemetery. The Orangemen raised funds and erected a beautiful monument for him near the entrance of the Cemetery.

Charles Melville Hays - President of the Grand Trunk Railway, he was among the distinguished guests on the Titanic. His wife and daughter were saved but he and his son-in-law perished. Many hours after the tragedy, his body was found by a rescue boat. He was identified by his gold watch that had his name engraved on it. He was brought back from Halifax by a train that had a special private car for him. He was buried almost a month after the tragedy on May 8th 1912.

David Thompson - He started his career with the Hudson's Bay Company and then went to work for the North West Company. After a fruitful career as a surveyor and explorer, he retired. He died very poor with no marker at his grave. Seventy years after his death, in 1926, the Canadian Historical Association erected a monument for him with this epitaph: "To the memory of the greatest of geographers who for 34 years explored and mapped the main travel routes between the St. Lawrence and the Pacific" .