Readers of the Toronto Star newspaper may have spotted an unusual notice in the front section on April 5 from the Ontario Registrar of Burial Sites advising of the discovery of a burial site in the heart of the city’s downtown. It turns out that a plumbing crew working on renovations in the basement of a property on the south side of Britain Street, near Richmond Street East, recently stumbled upon human remains that […]
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The Annual General Meeting of Toronto Branch will take place on Monday 25 May starting at 7:30 pm at the Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall, 5110 Yonge Street in Toronto (convenient access from the North York subway station), and will be immediately followed by our regular monthly Branch meeting. As family historians, we are accustomed to seeking out and recording the dates when our ancestors died. But deaths produce many types of records—death […]
April showers bring… May shovels? As soon as the air begins to warm up, you can be sure that a dedicated band of Toronto Branch volunteers will be back at work again – uncovering and transcribing gravestones! Our cemetery crew can usually be found at St James Cemetery, on Parliament Street just south of Bloor at the edge of the Don River Valley, on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings – outfitted with gardening gloves, […]
Toronto Branch marked a milestone this fall with the completion of a major cemetery indexing project in partnership with FamilySearch Indexing. The last entry to be indexed in thousands of burial register pages from the “Toronto Trust Cemeteries” – as the “Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries” was known prior to 1990 – was officially submitted on 27 September 2013. A roster of dedicated volunteers worked for four years to make this happen – indexing […]