The following excerpt is from an article posted in the March 3, 2014 edition of the CBC News.
The province of Ontario is asking descendants of people buried in a forgotten cemetery near Elgin and Queen Streets in Ottawa to come forward to determine what should be done with their remains.
Human remains and casket material were discovered on Sept. 19 last year under Queen Street during preparation work for the city’s light-rail transit tunnel. The discovery stopped work on the LRT there.
The province informed the public of its intentions in a notice in newspapers last week.
“The individuals buried at the Barrack Hill Cemetery lived alongside the founders of the nation’s capital, were its earliest inhabitants and some of them possibly helped build the Rideau Canal. Accordingly, these grounds can be considered to be of great historical and archaeological significance,” the notice read.
