MARK TWAIN SAW HOW MUCH THE NEW ORLEANS OF THE DEAD RESEMBLED THE ONE FOR THE LIVING. Writing about the city in Life on the Mississippi in 1883, he observed that the vaults where the dead were buried there resembled …
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A Cemetery Tour through the Toronto of the Dead
PEOPLE DIE ALL THE TIME IN TORONTO. For much of the city’s earliest history, cemeteries were the closest thing we had to public parks. Victoria Square, the city’s first cemetery, is still a public park, and most people walking their …
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