Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is a cemetery in
Thornhill, Ontario
Thornhill is a suburban district in the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada, split between the City of Vaughan (its western portion) and the City of Markham (its eastern portion), with Yonge Street forming the municipal boundary. Tho ...
, Canada. It is owned and operated by the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto
The Archdiocese of Toronto ( la, Archidioecesis Torontina) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Ontario. Its archbishop is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the dioceses of Hamilton, London, Saint Catharines ...
.
History
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery opened in 1954 to handle growth of Catholics in Toronto requiring a Catholic burial in the greater Toronto area.
It is named for the universal symbol of Christianity.
Besides the crypt at St. Michael's,
St. Paul's (cemetery operated from 1822 to 1857) and
St. Mary's Church (emergency cholera burials from 1832 to 1834 predated the first church built in 1835) were the only churches with an attached cemetery within Toronto. St. Michael's Cemetery opened in 1855 as a larger and stand alone burial grounds.
Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery was opened to relieve St. Michael's in 1900 and was the last to be located within Toronto.
Holy Cross is responsible for St. Luke's Roman Catholic Cemetery c. 1846. Located off John Street next to Thornhill Cemetery and Ukrainian Catholic Church of Saint Volodymyr (formerly St. Luke's Roman Catholic Church).
Notable interments
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Carl Brewer
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G. Raymond Chang
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Milt Dunnell
Milton William Ryan Dunnell (December 24, 1905 – January 3, 2008) was a Canadian sportswriter, known chiefly for his work at the ''Toronto Star''.
Early life
Dunnell was born in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada on December 24, 1905 and attended ...
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Marshal McLuhan
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Jack Tunney
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Domenic Racco
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Emanuel Jaques
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* Emanuel (name), a given name and surname (see there for a list of people with this name)
* Emanuel School, Australia, Sydney, Australia
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Charles Sauriol
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The cemetery is the resting place of the more recent and former
Archbishop of Toronto
The Archdiocese of Toronto ( la, Archidioecesis Torontina) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Ontario. Its archbishop is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the dioceses of Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, ...
:
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Philip Pocock
Philip Francis Pocock (2 July 1906 – 6 September 1984) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto from 1971 to 1978.
Early years
Pocock was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, on 2 July 1906. After studying theology at St. Peter's Sem ...
d. 1984
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Gerald Emmett Carter
Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter (1912–2003) was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1978 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.
Biography
Youth and ordination
The youngest o ...
d. 2003
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Aloysius Ambrozic
Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (born Alojzij Matej Ambrožič; January 27, 1930 – August 26, 2011) was a Roman Catholic cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal and Roman Catholic Archbishops of Toronto, Archbishop of Toronto. He was made a cardinal on ...
d. 2011
See also
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St. Augustine's Seminary
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Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery
Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery at 305 Erskine Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
Mount Hope was created near the end of the 19th Century when the Archdiocese of Toronto was faced with a capacity issue at St. Micha ...
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St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica (Toronto)
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St. Paul's Basilica
St. Paul's Basilica is the oldest Roman Catholic congregation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 83 Power Street in the Corktown, Toronto, Corktown neighbourhood, just east of downtown, near the intersection of Queen and Parliament stree ...
, former site of St. Paul's Cemetery 1822 to 1857 (last burial)
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St. Michael's Cemetery (Toronto)
References
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Cemeteries in Ontario
Roman Catholic cemeteries in Canada
1954 establishments in Ontario