This is a list of cemeteries in Toronto. {, class="wikitable sortable" , - bgcolor="lightblue" !width=23%, Name !width=15%, Location !width=10%, Dates !width=10%, Interments !width=15%, Affiliation !width=35%, Notes !width=7%, Image , - , Armadale Free Methodist Cemetery , Armadale
, 1885– , , Free Methodist , , , - , Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park ,

Newtonbrook Newtonbrook is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the area around Yonge Street and Finch Avenue in the district of North York between the east and west branches of the Don River. Officially, the area is divided into two n ...

, 1929– , , Jewish , , Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park

, - , Beth Tzedec Memorial Park ,

Westminster-Branson Westminster-Branson is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is in the northernmost part of the city within the area of North York. Branson is located along Finch Avenue, west of Bathurst Street and east of the west branch ...

, 1949– , 4,414 , Conservative Judaism , Westminster Gardens located west of the site is part of Park Lawn Cemetery group. , Beth Tzedek Memorial Park

, - , Bethel Cemetery ,

Scarborough Junction Scarborough Junction (also known as Kennedy Park) is a small neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bordered by Birchmount Road, Brimley Road, Eglinton Avenue, and St. Clair Avenue. Scarbrough Junction ha ...

, 1842 , , Non-denominational , , , - , Bingham Family Cemetery ,

Princess Gardens Princess Gardens is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the western area of Toronto that was formerly the City of Etobicoke. Its boundaries are Eglinton Avenue to the north, Martin Grove to the west, Islington to the eas ...

, 1843–1973 , , , Closed and graves moved to Riverside Cemetery. Now residential neighbourhood. , , - , Christ Church St. James Memorial Garden & Cemetery ,

Mimico Mimico is a neighbourhood (and a former municipality) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, being located in the south-west area of Toronto on Lake Ontario. It is in the south-east corner of the former Township (and later, City) of Etobicoke, and was an in ...

, 1832– , 500 , originally Anglican; now non-denominational , Still active , , - , Christie's Methodist Cemetery ,

L'Amoreaux L'Amoreaux is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated east of Victoria Park Avenue, south of McNicoll Avenue, west of Kennedy Road (Toronto), Kennedy Road and north of Huntingwood Drive. L'Amoreaux is named after Josue L'Amoreaux (1 ...

, 1846–1926 , , Methodist , Today in the parking lot of Bridlewood Mall. , , - , Dawes Road Cemetery ,

Clairlea Clairlea is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The neighbourhood is located in the western part of the district of Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough just east of Victoria Park Avenue. To the north, it is bounded by Eglinton Avenue and ...

, 1903 , 13,000 , Jewish , , Dawes Road Cemetery

, - , Duchess Street Burying Ground
(Old Scotch Cemetery, Presbyterian Burying Ground) ,

Moss Park Moss Park is a residential neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The area known as Moss Park is typically considered to be between Jarvis Street and Parliament Street, south of Dundas Street, an area dominated by public hous ...

, ~1818–1911 or 1912 , ~263 , Presbyterian (1824–1911) , Linked to Knox Presbyterian Church after 1824, land granted in 1797 and active up to 1840s. The 0.5 acre lot was bounded by Duchess (Richmond) Street to the north, Stonecutters Lane to the east, up to 260 Richmond Street East (Lot 5) to west and Britain Street to the north. Some 263 graves and markers were relocated to

Toronto Necropolis Toronto Necropolis is a non-denominational cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the west side of the Don River valley, to the north of Riverdale Farm in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood. The cemetery was opened during the 1850s to ...

in 1911 to 1912 but not all burials recovered as some were found outside the formal boundaries and found after last burials. Built over after closure and now site of commercial buildings with addresses on Richmond and Britain Streets. , - , Elia United Church Cemetery ,

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, 1832–1957 , , United Church of Canada , Cemetery now parking lot but church remains on site. 20 head stones relocated to northside of church lot. , , - , Emmanuel United Church Cemetery ,

Malvern Malvern or Malverne may refer to: Places Australia * Malvern, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide * Malvern, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne * City of Malvern, a former local government area near Melbourne * Electoral district of Malvern, an e ...

, 1868–1933 , , United Church of Canada , Cemetery for the village of Malvern. , Emmanuel United Church Cemetery

, - , Glendale Memorial Gardens ,

Rexdale Rexdale is a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located north-west of the central core, in the district of Etobicoke. Rexdale defines an area of several official neighbourhoods north of Highway 401 and east of Highway 427. Rexdale was orig ...

, 1952– , , Non-denominational , , , - , Highland Memory Gardens , Hillcrest
, 1953– , 22,000 , Non-denominational , ,

, - , Holy Blossom Memorial Park ,

Cliffcrest Cliffcrest is a residential neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located along the shores of Lake Ontario in the district of Scarborough, bordered by Midland Avenue to the west, the Canadian National Railway to the north, and Bellamy ...

, 1929– , 2449 , Reform Judaism , , , - , Islington Burying Grounds ,

Islington-City Centre West Islington-City Centre West (also known as Islington Village, Six Points or Etobicoke City Centre) is a commercial and residential neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. One of four central business districts outside Downtown Toronto, it is ...

, 1807 , , , Oldest cemetery in Etobicoke. , Islington Burying Grounds

, - , Jones Avenue Cemetery , Riverdale
, 1883– , 581 , Orthodox Judaism , Second oldest Jewish cemetery in Toronto. ,

, - , Knox United Church Cemetery , Agincourt
, 1844– , , United Church of Canada , , Knox United Church, Scarborough

, - , Lambton Mills Cemetery ,

Humber Valley Village Humber Valley Village is a neighbourhood located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is within the former City of Etobicoke and includes some of the most expensive real estate in the metropolitan west end. The boundaries are from Dundas Street on the ...

, 1909– , 3,271 , Jewish , , Lambton Mills Cemetery

, - ,

Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital The Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in the town of New Toronto, Ontario (now part of the city of Toronto). The hospital grounds now form part of Humber College's Lakeshore Campus. History The hospital was built ...

Cemetery , Mimico
, 1892–1973 , 1525 , Non-denominational , , Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital Cemetery

, - , McCowan Road Cemetery ,

, 1933– , 141 , Orthodox Judaism , , , - , Melville Presbyterian Cemetery , West Hill
, 1852– , , Presbyterian , , , - ,

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 ...

, Sunnybrook
, 1898– , 76,000+ , Roman Catholic , 147 Commonwealth war graves from World War I and II , Mount Hope Cemetery

, - , Mount Pleasant Cemetery ,

Moore Park, Toronto Moore Park is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of Toronto's most affluent neighbourhoods. Toronto Life ranked the Rosedale-Moore Park neighbourhood as the best neighbourhood to live in Toronto. It lies along both sides of St. ...

Leaside Leaside (/'liːˌsaɪd/) is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located northeast of Downtown Toronto, in the vicinity of Eglinton Avenue East and Bayview Avenue. The area takes its name from William Lea and the Lea family, who se ...

, 1876– , 168,000 , Non-denominational , , Hart Massey's crypt in Mount Pleasant Cemetery

, - , Mount Sinai Memorial Park ,

Downsview Downsview is a neighbourhood in the north end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the district of North York. The area takes its name from the Downs View farm established around 1842 near the present-day intersection of Keele Street and Wilso ...

, 1920– , 8,205 , Jewish , , , - ,

Pape Avenue Cemetery Pape Avenue Cemetery, officially known as Holy Blossom Cemetery, is the first Jewish cemetery in the city of Toronto, Canada. The small cemetery is now closed to new burials, and is mostly hidden within the residential neighbourhood of Leslievil ...

(Holy Blossom) , Riverdale
, 1849–1930s , 293 , Reform Judaism , First Jewish cemetery in Toronto. , Pape Ave Cemetery

, - ,

Park Lawn Cemetery Park Lawn Cemetery is a large cemetery in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It currently has around 22,000 graves. It is managed by the Park Lawn Limited Partnership, which also runs five other cemeteries in Toronto. The cemetery ...

Etobicoke Etobicoke (, ) is an administrative district of, and one of six municipalities amalgamated into, the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Comprising the city's west-end, Etobicoke was first settled by Europeans in the 1790s, and the municipalit ...

, 1892– , 22,000 , Non-denominational , , Park Lawn Cemetery

, - , Pine Hills Cemetery ,

, 1928– , , Non-denominational , , Pine Hills Cemetery

, - , Pine Ridge Cemetery , Humber Summit
, 1845– , , Methodist , ,

, - , Potters Field , Yorkville
, 1825–1855 , , Non-denominational , First municipal cemetery, also known as the Strangers Burying Ground. Bodies mostly moved to the Necropolis after it was closed. , , - , Prospect Cemetery ,

Earlscourt Earlscourt is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is centred on St. Clair Avenue West, with Dufferin Street, Davenport Road, and Old Weston Road forming its boundaries. It is contained within the larger city-recognized neighbourhood ...

/ Fairbank
, 1890– , , Non-denominational , , Prospect Cemetery

, - , Resthaven Memorial Gardens , Cliffside
, 1925– , 31,000 , Non-denominational , , , - , Renforth Baptist Cemetery ,

Eatonville Eatonville may refer to: * Eatonville, Florida, United States * Eatonville, Minnesota, United States, an alternative name for the former Dakota village Ḣeyate Otuŋwe * Eatonville, Mississippi, United States * Eatonville, Ontario, a neighbourhood ...

, 1838– , , Baptist , , , - , Richview Memorial Cemetery , Richview
, 1853– , , United Church of Canada , Today within the cloverleaf of highways 401 and 427. , , - , Riverside Cemetery , Humber Heights
, 1892– , , Non-denominational , , , - , Roselawn Avenue Cemetery , Forest Hill
, 1905– , 5,840 , Jewish , , , - , Sanctuary Park Cemetery , Richview
, 1927– , , Non-denominational , , Sanctuary Cemetery, Toronto

, - , Secor Memorial Park , Woburn
, 1800s (after 1804) , , N/A – see Notes , Family cemetery of the settler Secor family. The Secors are

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should be members of

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, but also married within the Dutch Reformed Church prior to arriving in the area. Today the cemetery is a park with a memorial cairn. , , - , Sharon Cemetery ,

, 1845–1955 , , Methodist , The Sharon United Church building was demolished in 1967, but the cemetery beside it remains. , , - , St. Augustine's Seminary Cemetery , Cliffside
, 1942 , , Roman Catholic , , , - , St. James Cathedral Cemetery ,

St. Lawrence Saint Lawrence or Laurence ( la, Laurentius, lit. " laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roma ...

, 1797–1844 , , Anglican , Original Anglican cemetery in Toronto. , , - , St. James Cemetery , St. James Town
, 1844– , , Anglican , , St James Cemetery

, - , St. John's Cemetery Norway ,

Upper Beaches The Upper Beaches is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is directly north of the Beaches area. It stretches from Coxwell Avenue in the west to Victoria Park in the east. The southern border is Kingston Road, while the northern bo ...

, 1853– , 80,000 , Non-denominational , , St John's Norway

, - , St. John's York Mills ,

York Mills York Mills is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is centred around Yonge Street and York Mills Road located in the district of North York. In 2010, it encompassed the fourth and seventh most affluent postal codes in Canada. It is re ...

, 1816– , , Anglican , Village cemetery for York Mills. Canadian van Nostrand family monument is located here. , , - , St. Michael's Cemetery , Deer Park
, 1855– , 29,000 , Roman Catholic , Oldest Catholic cemetery still in service. , , - , St. Paul Anglican Church, L'Amoreaux ,

, 1840s– , , Anglican , Church built in 1841 and burned down 1935 , , - , St. Paul's Cemetery , Corktown
, 1822–1857 , , Roman Catholic , First Catholic cemetery in Toronto. Closed in 1857 and now buried under St. Paul Catholic School play yard on the south side of Queen Street East since 1959. , , - , Strachan Avenue Military Burying Ground , West of Fort York National Historic Site
, 1863–1911 , Approximately 150 soldiers, veterans, their wives and children , Divided into Protestant and Roman Catholic sections , ,

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Taber Hill Taber Hill, also spelled Tabor Hill, is a Wyandot (Huron) burial mound in Toronto, Ontario. It is located northeast of the intersection of Lawrence Avenue and Bellamy Road in Scarborough. It is estimated to date from the 14th century and contain ...

, Woburn
, 1250 CE (13th Century) , 472 , Iroquois , Burial mound and oldest known burial ground in Toronto now part of a city park (Taber Hill Park) ,

, - , Taylor Family , Old East York
, c. 1839 , , Methodist , Attached to Don Mills United Church. , Taylor Family Cemetery

, - ,

, Cabbagetown
, 1850– , 50,000+ , Non-denominational , , Toronto Necropolis

, - ,

Victoria Memorial Square Victoria Memorial Square is a park and former cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1793 as the burial place for those affiliated with the nearby Toronto Garrison (Fort York). It was the first cemetery to be used by European settlers ...

, Fashion District
, 1763–1863 , 400 , N/A – Established as a military by the

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station in York, Upper Canada , 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. , Victoria Memorial Square

, - , Willowdale Cemetery (Willowdale Methodist Episcopal Cemetery / Cummer Burial Grounds) ,

North York City Centre North York City Centre is a central business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the administrative district of North York. It is located along Yonge Street, between just south of Sheppard Avenue northward to Finch Avenue with its focus aroun ...

, c. 1834 , , Methodist/United , Cemetery for the village chapel of Willowdale next to the former Willowdale Methodist Church (later United Church and finally as Seven Day Adventist 1954) that was demolished in 1956. West edge of the cemetery was removed for widening of Yonge Street in 1931 with some families relocating graves to other cemeteries. Cemetery lost much of the northern end bwyond Horsham Avenue to a shopping plaza in 1950s. , Willowdale Cemetery

, - , York Cemetery , Willowdale
, 1948– , , Non-denominational , , York Cemetery photo by Djuradj Vujcic

, - , York Mills Baptist Church Cemetery , 104 York Mills Road
{{Coord, 43.745289, -79.398038 , type:landmark, name=York Mills Baptist Church Cemetery , 1833–1945 , 24 , Baptist , Headstones are visible from York Mills Road, and lay protected behind a fence and hedge. Next door, at 106 York Mills Road, is the historic one-story church manse, now a private residence. ,

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Cemeteries A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

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