Location: St. James Cemetery, Parliament Street
Date photo taken: 15 November 2015
Walking up Parliament Street toward Bloor you pass St. James Cemetery on your right. Sitting quietly behind its fence, this cemetery is home to a national historic site. On a small rise just inside the main gate is the Chapel of St. James-the-Less. Opened in 1844, the building is considered to be one of the finest examples of Gothic Revival church architecture in Canada. Given the rough cut stone exterior and impressive bell tower and spire, it might surprise you to learn that the ground floor of the chapel houses Ontario's second busiest crematorium. The cemetery is still operating and is in fact Toronto's oldest, continuously operating cemetery.
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