Toronto Necropolis

It is located on the west side of the Don River valley, to the north of Riverdale Farm in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood.

[2] The cemetery was opened during the 1850s to replace the Strangers' Burying Ground, which had been established in 1826 and closed in 1855.

It is part of the non-profit Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries, which also includes Mount Pleasant Cemetery and York Cemetery in Toronto, among others.

It is used to bury bodies used for research at the University of Toronto and is now part of the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries.

The cemetery's crematorium was built in 1933.

The Necropolis is the final resting place of such prominent individuals as Toronto's first mayor, William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist George Brown, founder of what is now The Globe and Mail , John Ross Robertson, founder of the Toronto Telegram , and, more recently, Federal NDP Leader, Jack Layton.