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The Town manages 17 abandoned cemeteries in Markham. There are five active cemeteries where plots are still available for purchase and burials are permitted. The administration staff in the Clerk's Department act as a liaison with the members of the Town's Cemetery Board in matters of the annual budget, maintenance of the grounds and stones and the fees charged for plots and cornerstones. Individual files are maintained for each cemetery within the Clerk's Department.
Fees to purchase interment rights in a Town of Markham Cemetery, effective June 1, 2011, are as follows:
Burial Plots
Full Burial Plot: $950.00 + HST
Cremation Plot: $500.00 + HST
Corner markers (set of 4): $200.00 + HST
For plot sales and cemetery information please contact John Byer, Vice-Chair Markham Cemetery Board, at 647-801-2752 or email: markham.cemeteries@gmail.com.
Town of Markham contact - Stephen Huycke, 905-477-7000, ext. 4290 or email: shuycke@markham.ca.
Other links: Ontario Genealogical Society at Ontario Genealogical Society 
Cemeteries in Markham
Buttonville Cemetery
Eckardt Cemetery
First Baptist Church Cemetery (Markham)
Hagerman West Cemetery
St. John's 5th Line Church Cemetery (Milliken)
Historic Buttonville Cemetery lies on the east side of Woodbine Avenue, just south of 16th Avenue. It is the final resting place for many of the area's original pioneer families and dates from 1830.
John Button, a local landowner, donated land for a Wesleyan Methodist Church and burial ground, with a portion of the property set aside as a family burial site. He achieved the rank of Major in the local militia and died in 1861. Major Button's grave marker indicates he was 89 years of age.
The cemetery, located on the west side of McCowan Road, south of Highway 7, was originally part of the Eckardt Family farm. Still active today, the site dates back to the 1830's.
Located on the 9th Concession Road, north of Major Mackenzie Drive, the First Baptist Church dates back to the 1830's. A Baptist Church was built on the Miller Family Farm in the late 1840's and many of the Miller family are buried here. The Church was later moved and restored to become one of Markham's heritage buildings.
The cemetery lies on the west side of Kennedy Road, north of 14th Avenue, in a bustling part of Markham. The Hagerman family, original settlers to the area, donated a church, that sat on the site beside the cemetery, which, at the time, had been the private burial grounds of the family. The church was later replaced with a brick structure that was torn down in the 1920's.
Located on the east side of Warden Avenue, north of Steeles Avenue, this cemetery is all that remains of the original site. The frame church was destroyed by fire after a lightning strike in 1929, and not rebuilt. The first recorded burial was of a man who fell from the steeple of the Church.
