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| - 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.
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