The parents of the infants and young people buried in Bells Corners Union Cemetery would have given anything for a simple life-saving injection.

Little John Graham died near Ottawa in Canada’s Confederation year at the age of one. But the family had fresh hope when his sister Margareta arrived. Article content

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Both are buried in a tiny cemetery that served a rural community, until Nepean grew around it. Today the Bells Corners Union Cemetery has heritage status — early Canadian history literally carved in stone.

The 19th-century stones also tell of Mildred Moore, who died one year old; Ellen Robertson, four; brothers William and John Davidson, five weeks and four years; Margaret Bell, 13; Mary Richardson, two; Wi

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