EVENTS
UPCOMING
A BIZARRE TOUR OF THE NECROPOLIS CEMETERY
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2024 @ 1pm
For a second year, Toronto Cemetery Tours will be participating in the Festival of Bizarre Toronto History. Join us on a hunt for the strangest stories hidden among the gravestones of the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery. Tickets for the entire festival or only the tour may be purchased at bizarretoronto.com .
THE WOMEN OF PARK LAWN CEMETERY
Dates:
Saturday, May 25, 2024 @ 12pm and 3pm
Sunday, May 26, 2024 @ 12pm and 3pm
This year Toronto Cemetery Tours has the honour of participating in Doors Open Toronto, a city wide event that happens every year. This event gives people the opportunity to explore buildings which are often closed to the public or attend tours on interesting topics. Join us at Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto’s West End as we visit the final resting place of important women who called Toronto home.
PAST PUBLIC TOURS
MURDER AND MYSTERY CEMETERY TOUR (NECROPOLIS CEMETERY)
Dates:
Saturday, Oct 29, 2022 @ 2pm
Sunday, Oct 30, 2022 @ 11am
Sunday, Oct 30, 2022 @ 2pm
Murder and Mystery with a generous sprinkling of mayhem. Are you waiting in suspense for this year's fall tour? A stolen identity, an unsolved murder, and Toronto's last public hanging. We'll visit those stories and more in this approx. 2 hour free public tour! No RSVP necessary.
DEATH, DISEASE AND DOCTORS IN VICTORIAN TORONTO, PT 2 (NECROPOLIS CEMETERY)
Dates:
Saturday, June 25, 2022 @ 1pm
Sunday, June 26, 2022 @ 1pm
Victorian Toronto was not a healthy city. In a town nicknamed "Muddy York", where the filth ran in the streets, where people emptied their chamber pots out the front door, and where the poor lived packed like sardines into dark, damp quarters.... there were countless ways to die. The Burial Register of any Victorian era cemetery reads like an encyclopedia of illnesses long forgotten or vanquished, strange diagnoses and sad tragedies.
We'll learn about deadly outbreaks, unusual cures, and important medical advances in this approx. 2 hour free public tour! No RSVP necessary.
WOMEN WHO BUILT CANADA, PT 2 (MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY)
Dates:
Saturday, May 21, 2022 @ 2pm
Sunday, May 22, 2022 @ 11am
Sunday, May 22, 2022 @ 2pm
Women's rights are human rights. Equality rights are of particular importance, given the unequal treatment women have historically experienced in Canada.
You have almost certainly never heard of the women we will talk about on this walk, but know that they fought tirelessly for equal pay, equal opportunities, and equal access as the men who ran the world around them. On this tour, you will be introduced to more women who paved the way for us to follow.