St. James Cemetry

The original St. James Cemetery was adjacent to the St. James Anglican Cathedral at King and Church streets in downtown Toronto but, by the mid-19th century, it had become too crowded. The decision was taken to open the new St. James Cemetery in the outskirts of the city.

John G. Howard, who ranks as one of Toronto’s great early architects, prepared the layout for the cemetery. The beautiful Gothic Revival style chapel is dedicated to and called St. James-the-Less and was designed by prominent Toronto architects Cumberland and Storm and opened later in 1861. It is here that most of Toronto's elite of the time (Baldwin, Jarvis, Austin, Cawthra, Gzowski, etc.) most of them being Anglican, has been laid to rest.

Baldwin

Robert Baldwin, Politician, First to Establish a Responsible Government

Boddy

The Venerable Archdeacon Samuel J. Boddy, Archdeacon of York; Rector, St. Peter’s Church

Durie

William Arthur Durie, WWI Officer with a harrowing story

Grand and Samuel Toy

James Grand and Samuel Toy, Founders of Grand & Toy, Toronto’s Oldest Office Supply Company

Lepper

Fred Lepper, Second Toronto Firefighter to Die in the Line of Duty

Lumbers

William Lumbers, Early Toronto Businessman

Ridgeway Nine - Heroes of the Battle of Ridgeway

The Ridgeway Nine – Heroes of the Battle of Ridgeway, A Defining Canadian Moment

Turner

Enoch Turner, Brewing up education