Pine Hills Cemetery

On a late winter walk at Mount Hope Cemetery in midtown Toronto, I visited the graves of two members of the infamous Canadian bank-robbing gang: Leonard (“Lennie”) Jackson and Valent Lesso (also known as Stephen Suchan) of the legendary Boyd Gang. Despite their crimes, the Boyd Gang gained a kind of Robin Hood–style reputation, admired […]

On my fall walk at Pine Hills Cemetery, Toronto, I discovered the grave of Montreal Maroon and Boston Bruin great, Nels “Old Poison” Stewart.