Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Toronto grave

Reuniting the Massey and Harris Families On my walks through Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto and Greenwood Cemetery in Brantford, Ontario, I recently reunited two families whose legacies helped shape Canadian agriculture and manufacturing — Hart Massey and Alanson Harris — names forever linked as Massey-Harris. Hart Massey joined his father’s agricultural equipment business and […]

The Honourable David Onley — Trailblazer and BroadcasterDiscovered at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto On my walk at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, I found the grave of the Honourable David Onley, a remarkable figure in Ontario’s history. Born in Midland, Ontario, David’s family moved to Toronto in 1957. At just three-and-a-half years old, David contracted polio, requiring […]