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It was founded in 1927 by the chevra kadisha, the Jewish community's volunteer burial society, as the Toronto Hebrew Funeral Parlour and functioned as a co-operative. In 1937, it acquired a building at 331 College Street, formerly the location of H. Ellis & Son Funeral Directors, where funeral services would be held. [citation needed]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Garry Hoy (January 28, 1954 – July 9, 1993) was a Canadian lawyer who died when he fell from the 24th floor of his office building at the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto, Ontario. In an attempt to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the building's glass windows were unbreakable, he threw himself against the glass. The ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2025. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2025 1 Viktor Alksnis, 74, Russian politician ...
For nearly a decade since, Bruner has worked in several prestigious antique shops and art galleries throughout Toronto. In August 2009, Bruner was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor. After battling the cancer for nearly three months, Bruner died with her family at her side, on December 18, 2009, at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital.
He was well known in Toronto for his television ads that frequently aired on late nights in the 1980s and 1990s where Panepinto solemnly intoned this slogan. Business at Panepinto's coffin store at St. Clair Avenue West in the Corso Italia district was described as very brisk as the price of his coffins ranged from $1,800 to $2,000, which was ...
In 1916, the Toronto General Burying Grounds (now the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries) bought the property but didn't start to convert the 172 acres (70 ha) for cemetery use until 1946, two years before the cemetery officially opened in 1948. [1]
Howie Meeker, 97, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), commentator and politician, MP (1951–1953), four-time Stanley Cup champion. [208] Marc Metdepenningen, 62, Belgian journalist. [209] Stéphane Moulin, 57, French football referee. [210]