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York Cemetery is a cemetery located in the North York area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. History [ edit ] The site of York Cemetery was originally a property farmed by Joseph Shepard, who bought the land in 1805. [1]
Toronto's Jewish community is the most populous and one of the oldest in the country, forming a significant part of the history of the Jews in Canada. It numbered about 240,000 in the 2001 census, having overtaken Montreal in the 1970s. As of 2011, the Greater Toronto Area is home to 188,710 Jews. [1] The community in Toronto is composed of ...
Mount Pleasant Cemetery. / 43.696351; -79.384882. 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. The cemetery has kilometres of drives and walking paths interspersed ...
Toronto Hebrew Memorial Parks. Toronto Hebrew Memorial Parks operates two Jewish cemeteries in York Region. THMP is based in Toronto at the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre . The majority of Jewish burial sites in the Greater Toronto Area are in Toronto (6) and many Jewish residents are now living further north in Toronto and in York Region.
Alma mater. Selwyn College, Cambridge ( MA) David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957), is a Canadian/British [2] [3] [4] hereditary peer and media magnate. [5] [1] [6] Upon the death of his father in 2006, Thomson became the chairman of Thomson Corporation and also inherited his father's British title, Baron ...
Motto. Perseverando. (Perseverance) The Denison family was an influential, land-holding family in the development of the town of York, Ontario, present-day Toronto. During the 19th century, many figures in the Denison family held a moderate degree of political authority and contributed significantly to the heritage and politics of Toronto.
The Canadian Martyrs ( French: Martyrs canadiens ), also known as the North American Martyrs ( French: Saints martyrs canadiens, Holy Canadian Martyrs), were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. They were ritually tortured and killed on various dates in the mid-17th century in Canada, in what is now southern Ontario ...
Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Administratively, it is defined as part of the Cabbagetown-South St. Jamestown neighbourhood. It largely features semi-detached Victorian houses and is recognized as "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America", according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association.