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Mount Pleasant Cemetery Walk (June, 2009)

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Our "dead meet" rainy walk through Mount Pleasant Cemetery in mid-June with some fellow Urban Torontoers. We only covered the part of cemetery west of Mount Plesant Rd, but will tackle the other half next year.

Enjoy!

The Yonge Street Gate.
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Plotting our plan of attack.
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Captain Fluke? No offense, but I can't help but treat this as a superhero's mausoleum. Well, until I read this.
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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The International Order of Foresters Memorial.
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Conrad's next Canadian home?
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The St. Andrews Society Cairn
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Apparently these "tree graves" signify a life cut short.
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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The birth of The Distillery?
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The Eaton Family Mausoleum
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The Eaton Family Mausoleum (cont.)
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The Eaton Family Mausoleum has "Eaton" spelled in the old department store's font.
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The Eaton Family Mausoleum (cont.)
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The Weston Family Memorial. No, it's not made of bread.
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Inside the Mount Pleasant Mausoleum.
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Inside the Mount Pleasant Mausoleum (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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As they say, money can't buy taste. This thing is Steve Stavro's grave.
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Seriously, that's the late Knob Hill Farms' logo.
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I tend to think of this as the equivalent of a Mississauga monster home being built in the middle of Cabbagetown. It really does ruin an otherwise tasteful cemetery. Sorry Steve.
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Probably the highlight of the cemetery is the Massey Family Mausoleum. It was designed by EJ Lennox.
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Massey Family Mausoleum (cont.)
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Massey Family Mausoleum (cont.)
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Massey Family Mausoleum (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (cont.)
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And a final shot from the "subway sign" at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
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Hope you enjoyed!
 
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this is a pretty unusual grave...

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**edit** i just realized that that is the base of the IOOF monument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOOF

what's with the skull and crossbones?



p.s, those mausoleums, are they just left open like that or did you guys get special access?
 
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Superb. A couple of thoughts: the older graves don't have flowers -they aren't visited by descendents, probably because the people that remember those dead are themselves passed on. Yes, Steve Stavros' monument doesn't pass the taste test.
 
How rude to write such an awful thing about Stavros’s grave! I mean it is what it is but talking about a dead man’s ... never mind I will go laugh at yours.
 

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