Cemeteries
• Brown's Corners United Church
• Carrville
• Headford Church
• Holy Trinity
• Richmond Hill Presbyterian
• St. John's (Jefferson)
• St. Luke's
• St. Mary's
• Temperanceville Presbyterian
• Temperanceville United
• Thornhill

Temperanceville United Church Cemetery is located at the north-east corner of Bathurst Street and King Sideroad in Richmond Hill. Originally Love’s Corner, later Temperanceville Methodist Church, the congregation began meeting about 1809 in the home of James Love, a local farmer. In 1835, Love sold one acre of his land to the congregation, and a log church was erected. A brick structure followed in 1854 and was replaced by the current church building in 1897. The grave markers, dating back to 1834, have been gathered behind a picket fence to the east of the church.

Notable burials include the grave of Le Chevalier Michel Saigeon, perhaps the only de Puisaye settler to actually succeed as a pioneer farmer in York. Many of his descendants - he had fifteen children - are buried here as well. His name appears on his tombstone as “Mitchel R. Saigeon” - he had dropped his aristocratic title over the years in Upper Canada.

A complete transcription of burials at Temperanceville United Church Cemetery is available from the Ontario Genealogical Society: http://www.ogs.on.ca/publications/first.html

For views of the church and grounds, click here.

Stones

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This electronic finding aid to the cemeteries serving the population of Richmond Hill is provided courtesy of the Richmond Hill Public Library.