Place du Canada (part of Dominion Square until 1967) is a large urban square in downtown Montreal (14,000 square metres (150,000 sq ft))

After the cholera outbreak of 1851, the area had been the site for several hastily convened cemeteries of various denominations. Beginning in 1854, the City of Montreal began exhuming the bodies to be relocated to Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery on the northeast slope of Mount Royal.