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On my walk at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I visited the memorials remembering the victims and unidentified Catholic dead who perished when a collision of the Mont-Blanc and the Imo ships in Halifax harbour triggered the largest man-made explosion before the nuclear age. On December 6, 1917, a French cargo ship […]

On my arrival at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, I visited Garrison Cemetery, among the oldest cemeteries in Canada and home to the oldest surviving English gravestone. It’s also the resting place of Rose Fortune, a Black businesswoman and Canada’s first self-appointed port constable, who kept order on the Annapolis Royal wharf for over two decades. […]

On my visit to Mount Pleasant Cemetery in midtown Toronto, I found the family plots of three generations of Weston’s. A dynasty started by George Weston and eventually passed on to his son, W. Garfield Weston, and finally to his son, Galen Weston. George Weston  It began years earlier when the Weston family relocated from […]

Dolly Parton died on August 25, 2026, at age 80. She was known as a prolific and skilled songwriter throughout her career where writing was actually the foundation of her success before she became a performer. Dolly wrote “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” and co-wrote thousands of songs over her career, spanning country, […]

On my visit to Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto’s west end, I visited the grave of the country doctor best known for delivering and caring for the Dionne quintuplets — the first quintuplets known to survive early infancy anywhere in the world. On May 28, 1934, Dr. Dafoe, who ran a medical practice in Callander, […]

Visit Willowbank Cemetery in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and discover the remarkable story of Mona Parsons, a Canadian who joined the Dutch resistance, helped Allied airmen escape during World War II, survived Nazi imprisonment, and returned home largely unrecognized.

Visit the memorial plaque for Carl and Margaret Atwood at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto and learn how their lives helped shape writer Margaret Atwood’s imagination.

While in New York City I visited both Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx and Trinity Church Cemetery and discovered the graves of two prominent New York businessmen, Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy’s Department Stores, and John Jacob Astor IV, real estate tycoon, who both perished on the Titanic on April 15, 1912. As the story […]

While visiting the grave of Lester Pearson at beautiful McLaren Cemetery, in Wakefield, Quebec, I wandered around the grounds and found the grave of Canadian media legend and Senator, Betty Kennedy. Her grave was tucked away near the forested area of the cemetery overlooking the Gatineau Hills. Betty was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and started […]

On my bike ride from downtown Toronto, I arrived at Prospect Cemetery on St. Clair Avenue to visit the family graves of Canada’s fourteenth Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson. My first visit was to Lester’s immediate family plot where his father, The Reverend Edwin Arthur Pearson a Methodist minister and his mother Annie Sarah Bowles Pearson rest, along with […]

In 1894, Albert Richardson saw a problem with the way the bodies of dead people were buried. It was common at that time to simply bury bodies in small, shallow graves or to try to lower their caskets with ropes into a deeper hole. Unfortunately, this required several people to work in unison to ensure […]

On my recent trip to Manitoulin Island, after a beautiful fall walk along the Cup and Saucer trail, I passed a very small and simple cemetery on my way back to Providence Bay. Something about it caught my eye, and I felt compelled to stop and take a closer look. Sucker Creek Cemetery is an […]