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"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, at the east end of the 610 - 622 Roselawn Avenue cemetery block. The section is L-shaped, consisting of five rows extending from the front fence to the rear of the section, along with 17 rows flanking the east/west pathway along the rear fence (behind sections 4 through 6). Rows are numbered sequentially from 1, starting at the fence on the east side westward. Graves are numbered sequentially from the front (south) to back (north). In rows 1 through 5, graves are numbered 1D through 1A, followed by 1. In rows 6 through 22, graves are numbered from 1 from the south side of the pathway northwards; the pathway is considered to be grave 7.
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 Workmen's Circle; telephone: 416-787-2081; website: toronto-workmens-circle.org/cemetery"
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