Henry Box Brown grave

When you enter the main gate of Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, founded in 1850, and make an immediate left along an old stone footpath, you soon discover a section of the cemetery that serves as the final resting place for many of Toronto’s original families. Within this small, contained area lie four remarkable individuals and their […]

Henry “Box” Brown: The Man Who Mailed Himself to FreedomDiscovered at Toronto’s historic Necropolis Cemetery On a damp walk through Toronto’s Necropolis Cemetery, with my glass cross in hand, I came across the eroding gravestone of an extraordinary freedom seeker: Henry “Box” Brown — a man who quite literally boxed his way out of slavery. […]