Cemetery news.Over the past year, much has been written about old St. James' Cathedral Cemetery in Toronto, which has been threatened by a condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. development. A large bequest bequest: see legacy. to the Cathedral has eased the problem somewhat, but the Save the St. James' Committee still feels that there is a very real danger that further attempts will be made to close the cemetery and remove the remains. Tax-deductible donations can be made to the Save the St. James' Committee c/o Heritage Toronto, 205 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M5B 1N2. In a sense a skirmish has been won, but the war is not over. One picturesque cemetery is Albury in Ameliasburgh Tp., Prince Edward Noun 1. Prince Edward - third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964) Edward Antony Richard Louis, Edward Co ON. Located behind a charming 1 890s church, and across the road from the Bay of Quinte The Bay of Quinte is on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Located about 200 kilometers east of Toronto and 400 west of Montreal, the Bay of Quinte is a long, thin bay in the shape of a letter "Z". , this old cemetery is also attracting some interest. If you have ancestors buried there, check the website www.cyberus.ca/~bowerman.albury/. The cemetery board wants to update its records and establish names for the early burials. The site dates back at least to 1825 and there are Loyalists buried there. Some names which come to mind include: Redner, Mikel, Alyea, and Weese. These items originated in the OGS OGS Office of General Services (New York State) OGS Office of Graduate Studies OGS Ontario Genealogical Society OGS Ontario Graduate Scholarship OGS Ohio Genealogical Society Newsleaf Vol XXX1, No 4, (Nov 2001). |
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