The Taylor Cemetery

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

Here, on a sun-dappled landscape, are some of the grave stones in the Taylor Cemetery located on O'Connor Drive, a couple of blocks west of Pape Avenue. The cemetery has an East York Historical Society plaque at the entrance which gives us this information:

Plaque coordinates: 43.693019 -79.352124

John Taylor (1773-1868), his wife Margaret Hawthorne and seven children emigrated from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire in 1821. In 1839, three sons, John, Thomas and George, purchased this land from Samuel Sinclair (1767 -1852) except for a portion Sinclair gave to the Primitive Methodist Connexion in 1851. The Taylors gave the Connexion a brick church in 1859. The family operated three paper mills and a brick mill in the Don Valley, where they had considerable landholdings and were responsible for much of the development of East York in the nineteenth century.

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Posted September 27, 2008
Does anyone know who owns Taylor Cemetery today (2008?) eyhs@eastyork.org

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