Necropolis Cemetery
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Necropolis Cemetery is the oldest burial grounds in Toronto. Opened in 1850 to replace Strangers' Burying Ground (or Potter's Field), the cemetery is the final resting place for many earlier Torontonians including:
- Joseph Bloor
- William Lyon Mackenzie - Toronto's first mayor
- George Brown - founder of what is now The Globe and Mail
- John Ross Robertson - founder of the Toronto Telegram
- Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbot - first Canadian-born black surgeon
- Ned Hanlan - world-champion oarsman
- monument honoring Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews - rebels from the Rebellion of 1837
- Andrew Porteous - first person to be buried at Necropolis 1850
- George Bennett - former Globe employee - killer of George Brown
- Charles Lindsey - editor in Chief of the Toronto Daily Leader - son-in-law of William Lyon Mackenzie (1908)
- William Peyton Hubbard (1842–1935) - black Toronto city alderman
- Ralph Day (1898–1976) Toronto mayor from 1938 to 1940
- Thornton Blackburn - former slave who made his way to Canada on the "Underground Railroad" and established the first cab company in Toronto (1890)
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell (1858–1957) discovered that dinosaurs once roamed Alberta's Bad Lands
- Royal Air Force pilots Durlin D. Bushell, Augustus White, Howard Harris and Arthur Green; died from Spannish Flu (1918)
- Major Wylie McCabe - Irish Regiment of Canada and aide-de-camp to General Charles Foulkes
- Ainsworth Dyer - a corporal in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and died in Afganistan in 2002
The cemetery has over 50,000 bodies and a crematorium was built in 1933.
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
