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6 unusual facts about Mount Pleasant Cemetery


Beltline Trail

The east loop started at Union Station, running east until turning north along the Don River, passing the Don Valley Brickworks, up through Moore Park Ravine and along the northern edge of Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

The Beltline Trail, designated the Kay Gardner Beltline Park east of Allen Road until Mount Pleasant Road, the Ravine Beltline Trail south of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery through the Moore Park Ravine, and the York Beltline Trail west of the Allen, is a 9 km cycling and walking trail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Davisville Village

The area directly abuts Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and has a large number of massive apartment and condominium complexes built between the 1970s and the 2000s, as well as a number of office buildings.

Frederick Halstead Teese

He died in New York City January 7, 1894, and was interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey.

George Knudson

He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario.

Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark

The cemetery is dominated by the marble mausoleum of John Fairfield Dryden, the founder of Prudential Financial.


F. W. Micklethwaite

Micklethwaite died on December 5, 1925, and he was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery next to his wife, Ruth.

Larry Zolf

Zolf is the father of award-winning poet Rachel Zolf and is buried in Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery.


see also

George Berg

He died November 27, 1945 and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery South Portland, Maine.