Ontario, Canada, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1989

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Ontario, Canada, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1989 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.

Original data: Toronto Trust Cemeteries, Toronto, Canada.

About Ontario, Canada, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1989

This collection includes records of several Toronto cemeteries, including:

York General Burying Ground (also called Potter’s Field) 1826-1855
Necropolis Cemetery, 1849-1989
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 1876-1988
Prospect Cemetery, 1890-1985

The records may contain the following information:

Name
Age at death
Place of birth
Date and place of death
Name of cemetery
Date and place of burial
Cause of death
Next of kin
Marital status

Indexed records are available through 1935, but there are volumes of image-only indexes in the browse that may contain years through 1989.

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