Mount Pleasant Cemetery

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Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Date8 January 1986

Names

Slaughter, Mike (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: 2:55 P.M.; First recognize that life is short then live each day as all men ought; reads the inscription on the marble sun dial at the entrance to Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Buried in the cemetery on this ice-cold afternoon was Joseph C. Jefferies; 74; husband of the late Winnifred Jefferies; dear father of Charles Jefferies and his wife Bonnie of Claremont and loving grandfather of Bradley. Noel and Kelly. There are more than 15;000 deaths in Metro every year an average of 41 a day.

Subject

Country:Canada

City, town or township:Toronto

Neighbourhood:Rosedale-Moore Park

Province or state:Ontario

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Photographs

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0108814F

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