By the end of the 1950s, a significant Russian-speaking community had formed in Canada, including former White Guards, priests, intellectuals, and even former prisoners of Nazi camps. In the province of Quebec, there were already Orthodox churches, but there was no Russian cemetery. Father Oleg Boldyrev, a priest from the town of Raudon, decided to create a separate memorial complex, similar to the one in Paris at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.

The Russian-speaking community chose a suitable plot near the city center, but its high cost required another year to raise funds for the purchase. By early 1961, the area was cleared, landscaped, flowers and birches were planted. Later, a chapel was built at the cemetery in honor of St. Seraphim of Sarov the Miracle Worker, and a large metal cross was erected in the center. Architects from the White émigré community developed the design for the cemetery gates free of charge. The burial site remains exclusively Orthodox, housing those who were forced to leave Russia and could not return. In 1967, a monument "To the Russian Soldier, Glory" was erected here, dedicated to Russian soldiers who died in World War I and World War II and during the revolution.

In 2006, marking the 50th anniversary of the local parish in Quebec, the Montreal Cossack community named after Ataman Kaledin erected another monument here in honor of the Cossacks who were killed and repressed in Soviet camps known as the GULAG. Currently, the chapel and the Russian cemetery are under the care of the Raudon Church Committee and belong to the parish of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral of Canada.