Cemetery sights in Ontario
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Mt Pleasant Cemetery
Rest assured, we have space' is the slogan here, and indeed, it's hard to imagine a more pleasantly assuring place for the ultimate rest. Since the 19th century, many of Toronto's brilliant and best (or at least richest) citizens have concurred, including classical musician Glenn Gould, former prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie, Eaton's founder Timothy Eaton, Titanic survivor Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, and Foster Hewitt, Canada's 'Voice of Hockey, ' who coined the phrase, 'He shoots, he scores!' The cemetery is north of Moore Ave, between Yonge St and Bayview Ave. Guide maps are available from the office near the south gate on the east side of Mt Pleasant Rd, which cuts…
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St James Cemetery
Many of Toronto's founding families are pushing up daisies at this historic cemetery, which belongs to St James Cathedral. Ancient gravestones slowly succumb to gravity and disappear beneath the lawn. Its beautifully proportioned little Gothic Revival Chapel of St James-the-Less (1860) – a national historic site – has justifiably been called one of the prettiest buildings in Canada.
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Toronto Necropolis
The remains of 984 of Toronto's colonists, including the city's first mayor William Lyon Mackenzie, were transferred to this wickedly named cemetery in the 1850s when the old Potter's Field burial ground near Todmorden Mills started to contaminate the town. A road leads off Winchester St through the gates of the Necropolis, passing a Victorian Gothic chapel with a multicolored slate roof.
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