Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Smashing IT! Why do I love cemeteries so much, you ask? Because there is so much history to view. There is so much architecture and deep meaning in so many of the grave stones. There's also a lot of very interesting greenery and well maintained grounds that have a tendency to catch the eye if you pay close attention. There's also something about the wildlife that cemeteries seem to attract. It's as though wildlife you would never usually see all of a sudden appear. If you do visit Mount Pleasant Cemetery, watch out for Plot J it seems to attract a lot of friendly squirrels that want to play and climb on top of you. The staff that maintain the grounds are also exceptional, friendly, and helpful. They do an amazing job at maintaining this massive cemetery. It is a great place to take in the views and take a leisurely stroll. Just watch out for the squirrels wanting to tag along. LOL

It’s a nice looking cemetery with a cool views and atmospheres with lots of iconic graves and statues!! Good to take a walk with you and your dog!!!🐶

Beautiful public space with trails and serenity. I visit loved ones who have passed on, but I also come to enjoy the arboretum (tree museum) that makes up the entire cemetery. Far from dismal, this is a beautiful place to run, walk, and reflect in nature.

So my grandparents are buried here, and I visit every year. Every year, the place looks exactly the same, so kudos to the grounds keepers. Besides being a cemetery, the place is bustling with joggers and bicyclists. Near my grand-parents head stone, there are quite a few grave-markers that have grown over with grass and is now just a depression in the ground and barely readable. The curiosity you get from seeing a forgotten grave marker from a 100 years ago, is what makes the area feel peaceful and gives a quiet respect for the past.

What a beautiful cemetery! Even though it is a final resting place, this place is a beautiful park for walking all year round. There is an immense peace and a pleasant atmosphere. In autumn, the trees play with all colors. The cemetery is also the last stop of The Beltline and the beginning of the walk in Yellow Creek. Highly recommending to visit this place.

This may sound a bit concerning for some, but this place is not only one of old resting places in Toronto but also doubles as a park. The amount of green space and old trees makes from this place a great spot for enjoying silence and nature. It comes with a few pieces of artistic expression materialized in funeral elements of the tombs. It is a great place for a walk or a bike ride. Many people transit de cemetery during the weekends.

Mt pleasant is where members of our glorious war dead rest at ease. Good job grounds crew!

Amazing cemetery! I actually view it as a beautiful park. So relaxing and uplifting to walk through. Immense thanks to Billy and the landscaping team for their incredible landscaping care!,, Best place to see the Japanese cherry blossoms! With gratitude, 🦋🇨🇦🌲Rosemarie Taylor

Extremely unprofessional experience! Rude service all around. They never answer the front desk calls. If they do by chance, they are rude, uninformative and unaccommodating. They offer family abroad to view a service via livestream. They have ample opportunities to ensure that the link is not only uploaded in a timely manner, but to also test for any technical issues. Instead, they leave family scrambling in panic to call their main number to no avail. Then you get their staff with a robotic repetitive script not listening to ANY of your concerns or questions whatsoever. No compassion, no professionalism and left family members completely abandoned during a crucial opportunity to pay respects and grieve appropriately. Never use this place! Extremely disappointing doesn't cut it!

The cemetery starts at Yonge St. and extends to Bayview Ave. Not only it is home to large mausoleums and beautifully carved sculptured, but also it is a very beautiful and well-maintained garden that provides splendid view in every season. It is a safe place to have your daily walk or cycling in the heart of midtown Toronto (Respectfully obviously) and be ways from the hustle and bustle of the surroundings. It is most beautiful in early spring and fall.

One of my favourite places to walk through and it is adjacent to popular green spaces in the area. Something about walking through here is very peaceful despite it being a large cemetery. It is well maintained and a wonderful space to walk through during all seasons.

A great and very large cemetery Its not only for the DEAD Many walkers and joggers come here daily Just don't get locked in after they lock the gates :)

I travel quite a distance to pay respects to quite a few family members buried at this cemetery. I'm NOT fond of the people jogging, biking or walking through while most of us want quiet while paying our respects to the deceased. But it is what it is.

Went here for a research project last weekend and it was a very calming visit. The cemetery is one of the largest in Canada, just a little outside of the city in a quiet area of town. Grounds are very well maintained and there are many paths within the cemetery both accessible by car and foot. Saw many runners on the day I went, at first didn't think of a cemetery as a running path but actually seems quite common in the area. Would maybe reccomend mapping out beforehand as it gets a bit tricky to navigate through.

Well, paying respect is part of life for those that have had departed loved ones. This is a well-maintained cemetery in the heart of Toronto. Lots of runners and cyclists taking advantage of the tranquility of the grounds and huge trees.

For years, having seen snippets of this cemetery flash by while on the subway, I've wanted to explore these grounds. Yesterday I had the chance and I am in awe of its beauty. Perhaps it sounds strange to some but I thoroughly enjoy walking through cemeteries reading headstones and enjoying the calmness. I don't know, I guess I find it peaceful. This cemetery is so vast that I used the help of Find a Grave: http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?FScemeteryid=639401&page=cem and a map of the grounds to plan my day. I was able to find the graves and pay my respects to such greats as Glen Gould, William Lyon Mackenzie King and Timothy Eaton to name a few. What a humbling experience.

death is a business...and business is good...morbid enough for you? this has to be one of the most lavish cemeteries in Canada, and huge in size, to the point where people often use the grounds as a jogging or training path. spanning from Yonge street to Bayview. holding just over 168,000 burials(ground and non ground?) its almost like stepping into a time warp just to see the different stones throughout the decades and generations. even furthering the point is that they are still uncovering marked graves to this day. this place is truly beautiful in all seasons, as I have come here to take some photos from time to time. was lucky enough to attend a service for remembrance day this year as well, which was very touching given my military past. you could literally spend a day here just checking out everything. also this is one of the few cemeteries to offer walking tours during the warmer months of the year, weather permitting.

My aunt took me to Mount Pleasant Cemetery on a snowy winter day. Because of the weather, we didn't spend too much time there but I had the feeling of tremendous tranquility and peace. The grounds are extensive in this historic cemetery, founded in 1876. I came to pay my respects to Glenn Gould, the brilliant and eccentric pianist who lived in and loved Toronto (and Canada). We picked up a map at the entrance and found his humble grave. It was close to quite a few Chinese graves (amusing). He chose a ground burial. The stone has the outline of a piano, his name and his birth date (Sept. 25, 1932) and his date of death (Oct. 4, 1982). He predicted he would die at the age of 50. Plot: Section 38, No. 1050 I think I first learned about Glenn Gould when I watched 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould. The film really impressed me - the music, the unusual episodic format, the man. His ambiguous sexuality was also intriguing and his intense desire for privacy. I also bought some Gould CDs from HMV (at the time, these recordings weren't available in the US).

Mixed review: (1) For the cemetery and what is contains, five stars. Agree with other reviewers. Comparable to other great 19th century cemeteries, with perhaps not as many folks of international renown. Beautiful monuments with some unusual ones mixed in, plus lovely landscaping. (2) For the management and the families of the wealthier inhabitants (or perhaps the proper word is decadents), one star. I was with a photography club there today and were warned by a particularly gnarly worker that we "needed permission" to take photos. Connie, perhaps because you visited alone in the winter and we visited as a group on Halloween, maybe this caused the attention. In any case, the cemetery manager, who was much more polite, saw us and explained that the cemetery itself did not care (than they should have explained this to their staff) but the problem was that some people sued for images posted on the internet because the plots themselves are privately owned. I do not get the big f-king deal. I'd be honoured if someone took pictures of the graves of my relatives as long as they were used in a respectful manner. I have taken tons of pictures in cemeteries in my former hometown of Chicago and the reaction there has been either indifference of helpfulness (a caretaker in one of the larger but lesser known ones gave me a private tour and pointed out many important graves because it was a slow day and she liked to gab). Furthermore, most historical cemeteries I've been in the States are very proud of their status and their denizens (I guess this is the proper word) and offer tours. If someone can explain to me - perhaps on a forum - why there should be such a large gap between Canadians and Americans on the subject of the dead I'd appreciate it. Also, the explanation that the plots are private property seems to imply that one cannot take a picture from the sidewalk of an architecturally significant, historical or just plain interesting house and post it publicly, since this is also private property viewable from a public space. My opinion is that if something can be seen publicly and is not a copyrighted object, it is not subject to privacy. After all, security cameras watch us in public spaces all the time. (Though personally, I think they should be banned from washrooms.)

I don't know why this Yelp profile is named "Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries". That's the company name. Their office is on Overlea Boulevard in East York, in case anyone is wondering. Any way, I'll review the Mount Pleasant cemetery itself. Well... I have relatives in this cemetery, so I go every so often. It's one of Toronto's greatest and most historic places, in my opinion. I see runners and cyclists there all the time, and I don't blame them for coming, it's great place to bike and walk! The Gardens of Remembrance (the one with fountain) are specific for cremation and it's really nice! It includes a glass "house" called the Conservatory. There are so many famous faces buried here. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Igor Korolev, Glenn Gould, and more. They also have a mausoleum, but it's eerie and not the best I've seen. If you want a nice mausoleum, maybe check out Holy Cross, Westminster, Prospect, or Elgin Mills. They have nicer mausoleums. Whether you love historic cemeteries, or if you're just taking a nice stroll, come to MP! :)

Mount Pleasant is reminiscent of an old European cemetery, with lots of ostentatious (and not-so-ostentatious) monuments, graves, and mausoleums. It's perhaps even more diverse, since pretty much every style of interment and marker is found here. Sure, there's lots of regular headstones, but there are also plenty of celtic crosses, obelisks, stars of David, Greco-Roman columns, and even a few Chinese monuments. Even if you don't "know" anyone who's there, it's still a pleasant (sorry) place to stroll or bike through. There are colour-coded paths to help you get around, although keep in mind the cemetery is bisected by Mount Pleasant Road, and the only crossing is at the north end. There are quite a few famous people buried here; my personal favourite is the Eaton crypt. Tucked away along the south-western edge, it's as big as the houses abutting the cemetery.

Great place and what an amazing oasis for tree and plant lovers. Wonderful place for runners and walkers to find some peace in this crazy city. Would have rated higher but they sadly don't allow dogs or roller blades...

Yeah, it definitely feels weird to rate a cemetery. But at least it's the nicest cemetery in the city. Mount Pleasant is in that nice area of uptown where there are lots of street level shops but you can still see that there was once grass beneath all the concrete. The area already has a lot of gorgeous public parks (especially around Lawrence) but Mount Pleasant takes the cake for gorgeous. I have a couple family members buried here (mostly in the indoor portion) but I do love walking through the area and exploring. Definitely creepier at nighttime (and a much higher possibility of getting lost in the huge space), but it's actually kind of pretty during the day. If you live in Toronto and have never been to Mount Pleasant, it's definitely something you should see, because everyone knows at least one person buried here (even if it's just the people who owned Eatons). For tourists, if you can get over the fact that it's a cemetery, it's definitely a nice peaceful day trip, in a really nice part of town.

I feel weird to rate a cemetery. 4 stars, I'm not "yay! I'm a fan", but rather, "this is a really nice place". my grandma has been buried here since before I was borne. I've grown up with this cemetery and it's a place that is very close to my heart. The cemetery itself is pretty large. It covers both the East and West side of Mt Pleasant. My Grandma is buried on the East side. The first thing that you notice upon entering is what a maze it is in there. I don't think I'd be able to find my grandma's grave site if I were ever to visit her by myself! The lawn is always kept pretty manicured and the grass is surprisingly green, I have theories on that, but I'll keep them to myself. The paths in the cemetery are paved, so a lot of joggers, rollerbladers and cyclist come here to get their groove on. Just a very peaceful and beautiful place to meditate and appreciate the value of life.

It is a calming and sobering place to visit and pay respects to those who left us. It is unfortunate that it appears to be in the process of being taken over by more than a few rabid cyclists and runners, most of them in racing gear. There have been several instances when they have become aggressive and swear at pedestrians and other cyclists who do not immediately and submissively get out of their way. In one occasion, one of them deliberately slammed into a pedestrian and swore at them. This is a place to be respectful, not for the entitled to act out their being angry at their privileged lives. Treat this place and the people that visit it with civility. This is a cemetery, not a track. We will all come to rest in peace some day - life is too short to waste it away mindlessly and unkindly.

Good place to walk around all night until you find some cigarette smoking teens. I tried to tell them about Rammstein but they didn't like that. I guess teens just don't like nice guys like me anymore.