TORONTO , ONTARIO

A BRIEF HISTORY : THE ORIGINAL ST. JAMES CEMETERY LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN TORONTO , WAS FIRST GRANTED IN 1797...IN 1832 , THE AREA HAD ONLY 9000 RESIDENTS AT THE TIME AND BY 1842  ,  HAD DOUBLED IN POPULATION...THE ORIGINAL CEMETERY BECAME TO SMALL AND IT WAS DECIDED TO BUILD A NEW CEMETERY JUST OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN AT THE TIME...PLANNING STARTED THAT YEAR AND IT WAS OPENED IN JULY , 1844...THE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH WAS STARTED IN 1859 AND WAS COMPLETED 1860...THE CREMATORIUM BEHIND THE CHURCH WAS ADDED IN 1948...THIS IS ONE OF TORONTOS OLDEST AND STILL ACTIVE CEMETERYS WITH OVER 89,000 BURIALS AND 75,000 CREMATIONS TAKEN PLACE....

THESE PICTURES AND VIDEO WERE TAKEN AT THE CEMETERY ON APRIL 16 , 2006 ON EASTER SUNDAY...AS WE FOUND OUT FROM READING THE GRAVESTONES THERE ARE ALOT OF PREDOMINANT FIGURES FROM ONTARIO AND TORONTOS EARLY HISTORY WHO ARE BURIED HERE...WE ENDED UP WITH ONE STRANGE PHOTO OF A HUGE ORB ABOVE A GRAVESTONE... WE HAVE INCLUDED THE MASTER PHOTO BELOW , TO US , ITS JUST DUST IN THE AIR AS IN THE OTHER PHOTOS...THE WIND WAS FROM THE NORTH AT 10KM AND THE TEMP. METER READ 10 DEGREES CELCIUS...

... JUST A DUST ORB ...