OUR CEMETERIES

Since 1850, Little Lake Cemetery has operated as a non-profit and non-denominational organization. The cemetery is surrounded by the quiet waters of Little Lake and the Otonabee River. For almost 160 years, Little Lake Cemetery has continued to offer a range of burial options, which currently includes traditional grave spaces, cremation graves and cremation columbariums which hold cremation urns.

In 1964, the Little Lake Cemetery Company opened the picturesque Highland Park Cemetery located at 2510 Bensfort Road (at River Road South ). It was here in 1976 that the first crematorium between Toronto and Ottawa was established.

Highland Park Cemetery offers many burial options in its park-like setting, including indoor and outdoor columbarium structures for cremation urns, cremation graves, memorial wall graves and a variety of monument and marker graves. Also, in 1979, a section of Highland Park Cemetery was consecrated by the Bishop of Peterborough as an official extension of St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery in Peterborough.


Both Little Lake Cemetery and Highland Park Cemetery have a chapel where visitation and memorial or funeral services may be held. More recently, Highland Park Cemetery opened up a reception centre where families may greet their relatives and friends, after a service or committal.