Park Lawn Cemetery


Park Lawn Cemetery is a large cemetery in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It currently has around 22,000 graves. It is managed by the Park Lawn Corporation, which also runs five other cemeteries in Toronto. The cemetery offers ground burials and a mausoleum for above-ground interment and cremation urns. It is located south of Bloor Street, west of the Humber River.
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History

Park Lawn Cemetery & Mausoleum opened in 1892 as Humbervale Cemetery and was owned by local farmers in the area. It was sold in 1912 and again in 1915 to Park Lawn Cemetery Company, and was renamed to the current name. In 1999, Park Lawn opened Paradise Mausoleum; phase two of Paradise Mausoleum was completed in 2007.
In 1995, a section of the cemetery was re-zoned to permit construction of a condominium building. While the building was opposed by lot owners, the Ontario Municipal Board approved the project. The cemetery has twice been attacked by vandals, once in 1990 and again in 2006. Both times several youths were convicted of damaging or toppling several hundred stones.
The cemetery contains a mass grave containing the remains of 75 "home children" from Britain.

Park Lawn Corporation

In 2002, Park Lawn purchased Westside Cemeteries Ltd from Service Corporation International giving it five additional cemeteries in the Greater Toronto Area:
In 2014, the Corporation expanded into the funeral home business by purchasing a 50% interest in the Tubman funeral home chain operating eight funeral homes in Ontario and Quebec and in 2015 it acquired Basic Funerals, low-cost funeral and cremation centres operating in Ottawa and the Greater Toronto Area. In 2016, Park Lawn Corporation became a publicly-traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
In the decade since then, further expansion has resulted in Park Lawn Corporation owning 176 funeral homes and 76 cemeteries in Ontario, Quebec, and 17 states in the United States.

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