Cemeteries
• Brown's Corners United Church
• Carrville
• Headford Church
• Holy Trinity
• Richmond Hill Presbyterian
• St. John's (Jefferson)
• St. Luke's
• St. Mary's
• Temperanceville Presbyterian
• Temperanceville United
• Thornhill

St. John’s Anglican Church is located at 12125 Yonge Street, between 19th Avenue and the Stouffville Sideroad. The church itself, erected as a frame building in 1848 and now brick-clad, is the oldest church edifice in Richmond Hill. On the grounds is an historical marker commemorating the de Puisaye settlement of Windham, founded in 1799 by a group of exiled French royalists and abandoned in 1806.

Many of the older markers have been gathered together close to the church building in the "pioneer frame."

Notable burials include:

• Captain Martin McLeod of Drynoch, who donated the land for the church and cemetery. McLeod’s son, Colonel James McLeod, became well-known as one of the North-West Mounted Police and a founding father of Alberta, where Fort McLeod was named for him.
• Henry St. George, son of Laurent Quetton St. George, one of the original de Puisaye settlers.
• Many members of the Legge and Kerswill families, founding families in the area.

A complete transcription of burials at St. John's Anglican (Jefferson) Church Cemetery is available from the Ontario Genealogical Society: http://www.ogs.on.ca/publications/first.html

For views of the church and grounds, click here.

Stones

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This electronic finding aid to the cemeteries serving the population of Richmond Hill is provided courtesy of the Richmond Hill Public Library.