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| - Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a well kept, beautiful cemetery adorned by flamboyant as well as more modest monuments, graves, and mausoleums. Walking through the various plots (but on the actual grounds! That is too disrespectful), you see different points in time of Toronto history. Early Anglo-Saxon families (late 1800s) to more recent times. This also carries a difference in surnames, how Toronto has transitioned from Anglo names to Chinese, Polish, Spanish, Jewish, etc names. It's one way to visualize the diversity that Toronto has experienced.
I like coming here in the fall and spring to take pictures of the beautiful trees. I took plenty of pictures of beautiful flowering trees, including Cherry blossoms.
If you are runner, this makes for a good running trail because it provides a respite from the noise, congestion and transit of city life.
In some ways, Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a park inside the city - a green area where you can walk in nature but less than 5 minutes from the city. It's a bit weird and freaky to say this about a cemetery, but it is an oasis in our city.
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