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Roselawn Avenue Cemetery, United Jewish Welfare Fund section, Roselawn Avenue (2 blocks east of Bathurst), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 454 burials 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 north side of Roselawn Avenue, in the centre of the 582 - 594 Roselawn Avenue cemetery block. This section was intended to provide inexpensive or free burials to members of the Jewish community. From inception, responsibility for this section of the cemetery was with United Jewish Welfare Fund, a predecessor of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. UJA Federation restored this section in 2018-19; fallen, sunken, and broken headstones were re-set and a marker reading "a grave of Israel" was placed on any previously-unmarked grave. The section consists of 25 rows, A through Y, from the front fence northwards to the back fence. Graves are numbered sequentially from 1 from west to east.
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.
Roselawn-Lambton Cemetery Association serves as an administrative organization for *some* of the sections; telephone: 416-398-0563; e-mail: roselawnlambton@yahoo.ca. More information about the cemetery can be found at http://torontoist.com/2012/10/toronto-cemetery-sojourns-roselawn-cemetery/ and http://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/breathing-new-life-cemetery-left-rot"
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