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Canadian Headstones relies on volunteers, including genealogy enthusiasts, to upload photos. [4] The site steps a contributor through uploading a photo, editing it, choosing a county and cemetery, entering the names and inscription. [5] It is then checked by a coordinator who assists the contributor to fix any problems.
Headstone engravers faced their own "year 2000 problem" when still-living people, as many as 500,000 in the United States alone, pre-purchased headstones with pre-carved death years beginning with 19–. [8] Bas-relief carvings of a religious nature or of a profile of the deceased can be seen on some headstones, especially up to the 19th century.
A roadside memorial, also referred to as a descanso, is a marker that usually commemorates a site where a person died suddenly and unexpectedly, away from home. Unlike a grave site headstone , which marks where a body is laid, the memorial marks the last place on earth where a person was alive – although in the past travelers were, out of ...
To commemorate the 109 lives lost in the crash of Air Canada Flight 621 on July 5, 1970, a memorial surrounded by graves of many of the dead was erected in May 1971. Children's Garden Memorial was created to remember all the stillborn and children without known parents the province buried in one area with no stones or markers.
The following emblems and emblem numbers are publicized as available for government headstones and markers as of January 2025. [9] A process is in place to consider approving additional religious or belief system emblems requested by the families of individuals eligible for these headstones and markers.
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]
Greyfriars Bobby's headstone, the headstone was erected by The Dog Aid Society of Scotland and unveiled by the Duke of Gloucester on 13 May 1981. [24] The monument reads, "Greyfriars Bobby – Died 14 January 1872 – Aged 16 years – Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all".
Victoria Memorial Square is a park and former cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1793 [ 1 ] as the burial place for those affiliated with the nearby Toronto Garrison ( Fort York ). It was the first cemetery to be used by European settlers in what would become the city of Toronto.