Toronto Necropolis is a non-denominational cemetery in Toronto , Ontario, Canada. It is located on the west side of the Don River valley, to the north of Riverdale Farm in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood.
5-664: The cemetery was opened during the 1850s to replace the Strangers' Burying Ground , which had been established in 1826 and closed in 1855. It is part of the non-profit Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries, which also includes Mount Pleasant Cemetery and York Cemetery in Toronto, among others. The cemetery contains the war graves of 34 Commonwealth service personnel, 29 from World War I and five from World War II. Most of these are in Section X. The cemetery has over 50,000 bodies. It
10-592: Is used to bury bodies used for research at the University of Toronto and is now part of the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries . The cemetery's crematorium was built in 1933. Strangers%27 Burying Ground The Strangers' Burying Ground , also known as Potter's Field , was the first non-denominational cemetery in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto , Ontario ). It was established in 1826 as
15-576: The York General Burying Ground , and it was later known as the Toronto General Burying Ground after the town of York became the city of Toronto in 1834. The cemetery was located on the northwest corner of what is now the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street . It operated from 1826 to 1855, with an initial £75 land purchase and 300 subscriptions for £1. The cemetery was founded in 1826 by
20-531: The Trustees of the General Burying Ground for residents who were not Anglican or Catholic – and thus effectively banned from burial in the town's established cemeteries as undesirables. The cemetery was located beyond the legal boundaries of the then-town of York, and within large wooded lots north of Bloor Street. When the 6-acre cemetery closed in 1855 after 6,685 interments, the families of
25-577: The deceased were invited to arrange for moving the graves to another cemetery. During the subsequent twenty years, many of the graves were gradually relocated to Toronto Necropolis in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood. The remainder (approximately 3,000) were moved between 1876 and 1881 to Mount Pleasant Cemetery , which opened in November 1876 near the Deer Park neighbourhood. As Toronto grew,
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