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Roselawn Avenue Cemetery, Toronto Independent Benevolent Association [Section 23], 610 Roselawn Avenue (E of Bathurst, N of Elington), Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. 180 burial total.
"Roselawn Avenue Cemetery was established in 1906 on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weber. In that year, a Jew was killed in an accident at the outskirts of the city and buried in a non-Jewish cemetery. Horrified that the Jewish community was not organized enough to deal with such an occurrence, the Webers, members of Goel Tzedec, bought land on what is now Roselawn Avenue for a cemetery. The land was donated to the Chesed Shel Emes (Hebrew Free Burial Society), which Weber organized himself. Through the efforts of Rabbi Gordon, head of the Goel Tzedec and the Chevra Tehillim congregations, the victim was moved to the new Jewish cemetery.
Individual parcels of land were subsequently purchased by congregations and organizations, such that it is today comprised of individual sections serving 23 synagogues/organizations. The cemetery sections line both sides along two blocks of Roselawn Avenue, interspersed with homes and apartment buildings; each section is independently owned and operated.
This section is located on the south side of Roselawn Avenue, midway between the intersection of Wingate Place to the west and Latimer Avenue to the east. The section consists of five rows, numbered sequentially from 1 on the west (adjacent to the fence bordering section 22) to 5 on the east (bordering the structure at the northwest corner of section 24). Lots are numbered sequentially from 1 (at the north fence) southwards.
Please contact cemetery@JGSToronto.ca for information about, or to request, photographs of headstones; please provide the decedent's name, cemetery section (and sub-section, if applicable), and row and grave numbers. We can often provide larger or higher-resolution photos than those appearing here, as well as photos of the reverse side of headstones (when relevant information, such as memorial inscriptions, appears there). Headstone photographs for more recent burials can also be requested at this address and are anticipated to be fulfilled during the summer and fall months.
This section is operated by Toronto Independent Benevolent Association; telephone: 905-709-0407; e-mail: cohen0407@rogers.com"
Cemetery gate.
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