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The cemetery began planning the building as early as 2004, but disputes [7] with the City of Toronto government, local funeral homes, and the Ontario Municipal Board all delayed the project. Changes were made as a result of this process, most notably vehicle access is now through the cemetery grounds only (near the cemetery offices), not ...
Barbara Frum (1937–1992), Canadian television news anchor and journalist (CBC) [1] Nick Harbaruk (1943–2011), Polish-born Canadian WHA and NHL hockey player; Murray Henderson (1921–2013), hockey player; Tim Horton (1930–1974), former Toronto Maple Leafs player and co-founder of Tim Hortons [1] Bob Jarvis (1935–2017), Canadian lawyer ...
First European cemetery in Toronto. Abandoned and city park since 1880s, 17 markers remaining and restored in 2007–2011 and home to War of 1812 Monument. [5] Westminster Cemetery Westminster-Branson. 1926– Non-denominational
The funeral procession of Thomas D'Arcy McGee in Montreal, 1868. The first state funeral in Canada was held for Thomas D'Arcy McGee after his assassination in April 1868. [6] The first Governor General of Canada to receive a state funeral was the Lord Tweedsmuir in 1940, who died in office.
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 ...
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The bodies of a California mother of three and her 19-year-old son were found dead by her daughter days before the family was set to celebrate Christmas.
As a result of government regulation of the funeral industry in 1922, requiring the use of licensed funeral homes, H. Benjamin and Sons funeral home (now Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel) [22] was established on Spadina Avenue in 1922 and followed by the Toronto Hebrew Funeral Parlour (now Steeles Memorial Chapel) in 1927. [23]