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Cimetière Saint-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette resides in Quebec, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada. Also known over the years as: Cimetière de Loretteville , Cimetière St-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette , Loretteville Cemetery , Saint-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette Cemetery and St-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette Cemetery, this burying ground is the resting place of several great Huron-Wendat figures as well as those who sought to "settle" the land. The earliest burial dates from 1794. The cemetery is active.
Translated from the original French:
"Established in 1795 - Until 1794, Saint-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette and Charlesbourg formed a single parish known as Saint-Charles-Borromée de Charlesbourg parish. It was in 1787 that French Canadians living near the town of Lorette turned to Monseigneur Jean-François Hubert, then bishop of Quebec, to obtain the formation of a new parish. The bishop informed them that he could not go to their request because there was no priest. In 1794, following a new request, the bishop allowed the purchase of land for the construction of a presbytery and a church. That year the Reverend Joseph Paquet, a priest born on Côte Saint-Romain, was appointed first parish priest of the new parish of Jeune-Lorette under the name of Saint-Ambroise, great doctor of the Church.
The territory of our Christian community of Saint-Ambroise includes the former city of Loretteville and the western part of Neufchâtel.
Since its foundation, Saint-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette has had a chapel and 4 churches. On December 2, 1795, the blessing of a chapel took place on the presbytery of 50 feet by 36 feet. In 1798, the chapel having become too small, work began on a church measuring 108 feet by 48 feet, which was blessed in 1809. In 1890, this church was demolished to make way for a larger temple at a cost of $125,000, completed in 1903 and destroyed by fire on December 13, 1908. In 1911 it was the blessing of the third church burned in February 1967. In 1967-1968, the current church at 277 Racine Street was built.
In 2004, the parish of Sainte-Marie-Médiatrice, located north of Loretteville, was attached to the parish of Saint-Ambroise to form a single parish with two places of worship. The church of Sainte-Marie-Médiatrice was built in 1950. In 2010, after a health check of the factory buildings and an assessment of increasingly limited financial and human resources, the Sainte-Marie-Médiatrice church and its presbytery were sold. The site is currently used for rental housing by the organization Les Habitations Château d'Eau." https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2468150/cimeti%25C3%25A8re-sain...