Famous Canadian grave

On my walk in High Park, on the west side of Toronto, I visited the historic iron gated grave and monument built from granite boulders of the generous couple who, in 1873, gave their cherished estate to the citizens of Toronto — the land we know today as High Park: John and Jemima Howard. John […]

On my rainy day walk at Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto’s west end, I visited the family plot of Roy Victor Jones, a Canadian soldier from Toronto who died at Vimy Ridge during the First World War. He’s buried overseas at Canadian Cemetery No. 2, on the grounds of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in […]