Pape Avenue Cemetery

Photo below by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2008

The plaque, apparently located here at the cemetery at 313 Pape Avenue, appears to be missing. According to Heritage Toronto, it's a Toronto Historical Board plaque and the text of the plaque says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.66737 -79.33997

This cemetery, consecrated in 1849, marks the establishment of an organized Jewish community in Toronto. At the time 35 Jews were living in the city. Seven years later the first synagogue in Ontario, later to become Holy Blossom Temple, was established in rented premises above Coombe's drug store at Yonge and Richmond streets. Holy Blossom continues to administer this cemetery. The first burial took place here in 1850 and the last in 1947. The .2 ha site was purchased by Judah George Joseph and Abraham Nordheimer from John Beverly Robinson, chief justice of Ontario. At the time, Pape Avenue was known as Centre Road. This site sat amidst prime farmland on the outskirts of the village of Leslieville and was accessible only by a dirt road from Queen Street.

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