You might say, ‘I’m on vacation, and you tell me to visit at cemetery?’ In fact, local cemeteries hold the richest historical content of any area. If you’d like to see the final resting place of several politically important people in Canada's history, stroll through the Cataraqui Cemetery. Most notable of these are:

• Sir John A. McDonald, First Prime Minister of Canada
• Sir Alexander Campbell, a Father of Confederation
• Thomas Kirkpatrick, First Mayor of the Town of Kingston.

Begun in the early 1800s as a village burial ground, Cataraqui Cemetery was incorporated in 1850. The garden style cemetery is at 927 Purdy Mills Rd.