Toronto Necropolis and Crematorium

[impulsereader]

For the sake of those who might be here strictly for the cemetery pics I'm going to do this slightly out of actual trip order - which bugs me a bit, but I didn't actually do too much in the morning; it's mostly a bunch of, 'huh, isn't that weird' and 'hee, that's sort of cool, isn't it?' pics. Also, due to constraints of time I haven't resized these so I apologize if anyone is having to scroll sideways.


To set the scene.







And a bit of wrought iron detail because I can.



All right. Let's see...I'm going to start with, 'best wording'. I did well in this category, we have a few winners who, oddly, were all grouped together. Not sure if they were all family, but if they were that's a fun Thanksgiving.







I honestly snickered a lot before realizing this wasn't intentionally funny. It would benefit from some punctuation.



A great little riddle of a headstone. This one puts you to work.



Just because they're pretty...







I could very well be wrong, but I'm not sure I've seen a pair of draped pillars before. Such a neat image.




So now I've gotten all paranoid about the size and quantity of the pictures added to the new expand/collapse feature (plus time again) so I'll cut this into two pieces. There's a whole little area where the founders or some such paid tribute to themselves as their headstones, it's hilarious. So, more still to come!

Comments

[pargoletta.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love old graveyards! I especially like it when I find contemporary gravestones that have a bit of an epitaph or show a sense of humor.

My favorites are really old stones, up to about the mid-19th century, because they have so much information, and sometimes a few hymn stanzas carved into them. They really went all out back then.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

It's really interesting how the Victorians just embraced death and the idea of erecting monuments to themselves and their loved ones once they'd died. They treated cemeteries sort of like we treat parks now. I love going on tours occasionally since we have such great graveyards in Chicago.