Toronto - Old Cabbagetown

The Necropolis Cemetery in Toronto is the final resting place for many famous Canadians including William Lyon Mackenzie, George Brown, and John Ross Robertson. The Victorian chapel, gate and gatehouse were built in 1872.

The Old Cabbagetown Festival in Toronto is an annual fall festival that includes a parade, dancing, arts and crafts, and an independent film festival. The festival takes place in early September and runs for a weekend. There is a full calendar events with all kinds of entertainment.

Riverdale Farm is the site of the former Riverdale Zoo which was on this location from 1894 to 1974. Only the gates, zookeeper's cottage, and the Donneybrook pavilion remain of the former zoo. The rest of the park has been made to recreate a late 19th C Ontario farm.

St James Cemetery in the Old Cabbagetown area of Toronto was first laid out in 1840. Buried here are many people from the Town of York. The Chapel of St James was built in 1858 in the Gothic style.

Once the site of the P. R. Lamb Glue and Blacking Factory, Wellesley Park is now a neighborhood park in Old Cabbagetown.