Identifier: historicalsketch00toro_0 (find matches)
Title: Historical sketch and rules-and-regulations, Toronto, Canada, 1826-1891 / Toronto General Burying Grounds Trust.
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Toronto General Burying Grounds
Subjects: Cemeteries
Publisher: Toronto : Dudley and Burns, printers
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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es, having a twelve-inch wall on the outside, and an eight-inchw7all on the inside, leaving a two-inch interval,—these walls to betwelve inches thick, carefully cemented over and then covered withasphaltum, to render them water-tight, and all laid in the bestcement. The importance of special attention on the part of lotowners to the particulars contained in the preceding suggestions,has been strongly impressed on the Trustees. In our former placesof interment, as well as in the cemeteries of other cities, may beseen both in failure and success, how essential it is that durablematerial should be used, that the right mode of construction shouldbe adopted, and that the execution of the work should be thoroughand complete. VARIETY IN MONUMENTS. As the permanency of monuments on their enclosures is, andwill be essential to the proper appearance of the grounds, so aresymmetry and variety of form necessary to the production of apermanently pleasing effect. Nothing can lead more directly to
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GENERAL RULES. 33 render these grounds tame and uninteresting than the frequentrecurrence of the same, or similar, forms of monuments and tomb-fronts. To prevent this result slight alterations in particular fea-tures have been made in other cemeteries, but still, only resulting inmonotony and not in pleasing variety. The mistakes which havebeen made in other places the Trustees hope to avoid in this newcemetery. PRESERVATION OP IMPROVEMENTS. The Trust is empowered by law to receive gifts or bequests forthe preservation of improvements as well as for the general benefitof the Cemetery. To this important provision the Trust call the - attention ofthose who may have become lot owners. They can hardly imaginethat the feeling which has prompted a costly purchase and erectionwould be unaccompanied with the desire that a spot, on which somuch has been expended should always be kept in neatness andrepair. To the very natural wish that ones own final place of reposeshould be decent and respect

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