Old St. Thomas Church

National significance

Judge Hugh Richardson

d. 1913
The Richardson family plot

An important figure in local history and in national history: he was the man who sentenced Métis leader Louis Riel to hang. It seems odd that a man from the Northwest Territories would be buried in a St. Thomas graveyard — he wanted to be buried with his daughter Charlotte, who settled in this area and married Charles Oakes Ermatinger.

From the Virtual Cemetery Tour
Carrie Kernohan & Jenny Olivier, 2007
Also in the churchyard

More from the stones.

The oldest grave

The Rapelje Monument

1819
The one that got away

Samuel Eccles

19th century
Folklore & symbolism

The Chisholm Monument

1873