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Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is part of the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries. It was opened in November 1876 and is located north of Moore Park, a neighbourhood of Toronto.
One of Canada’s most historic cemeteries, Mount Pleasant has served Toronto since 1876. It is the final resting place of many prominent Canadians, including former prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; Canada’s first female surgeon, Jennie Smillie-Robinson; popular Métis artist Youngfox; and renowned pianist Glenn Gould.
He built Ardwold, an enormous residence of 50 rooms in Toronto, beginning in 1909 and finishing in 1911. He also acquired a resort home from his mother in Oakville, Ontario, called the Raymar Estate (the estate has since disappeared).
Commemorative plaque: 375 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto, Ontario 1. Designed by Henry Adolph Engelhardt and officially opened in 1876, this cemetery is an outstanding example of landscape design inspired by the European and American garden cemeteries of the 19th century.
About. Get directions 375 Mount Pleasant Road. Toronto, Toronto Municipality, Ontario M4T 2V8 Canada. Coordinates: 43.69577, -79.38454. www.mountpleasantgroup.com/Locations/Cemeteries/Mount-Pleasant.aspx. 416-485-9129. Cemetery ID: 639401. Members have Contributed. 107,677 Memorials. 82% photographed. 6% with gps. About these numbers. Photos.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. The origins of Toronto’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery can be described as being older than the city itself. In 1825, nine years before the town of York became the city of Toronto, a small group of responsible community leaders - Thomas Carfrae, Jr., Peter Paterson, John Ewart, Thomas Morrison, and Thomas ...
Mount Pleasant Cemetery. In 1874 the Trustees of the Toronto General Burying Grounds hired H.A. Engelhardt, who was in the forefront of landscape gardening in Canada, to plan the transformation of ravine and plateau farmland into Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
