Mount Pleasant Cemetery is supposed to be a place for the deceased but it is more like a garden for the living. I love to walk through this peaceful place and admire the grave stones reading the names of the deceased and enjoying the flowers,... more

Peaceful

I ride my bike thru this sprawling cemetery,mature trees ,well keeped gardens as it’s has quiet extensive roadway thru it. I also see people walks there dogs , jog ,or just slowly walking.I .also fine if I see there is a funeral burial going on... more

For a cemetery it's not at all creepy

I don't typically like even walking near cemeteries, however, my friend and I went jogging through and it was actually very pretty. It's well landscaped and is actually used by many for visiting their families, exercise, etc. It's neat just walking through and looking at... more

A Relaxing and Educational Stroll

Cemeteries are no longer just for the dead. They are wonderful places to go for relaxing walks. Mount Pleasant Cemetery is particularly large and lush with plant life. If you have never been, the Fall season is a perfect time to see this pretty place.... more

You don't have to die to go here

Beautifully landscaped cemetery to read a book or enjoy a discrete picnic. Just north of St Clair subway.

Peace and Tranquility

Living across the street many years ago, I used to sit outside on Sunday mornings and listen to the violin player and the trumpet player. It was a wonderful concert every week. Returned this year for a peaceful walk,and it was just that. The area... more

a writer's paradise of names and cityscape

always an interesting place to walk through with friends or family especially if you need a quiet moment or looking for stories ideas, you also can learn some great things about the city and the people buried there. Can take all day, highly worth it.

Great place for a quiet walk

Lovely place for a walk - many different roads through an arboretum/cemetary. It's a good history lesson too or some of the original families that settled and established empires in Toronto. It's well maintained and all the trees are marked as to their variety. I've... more

Historical cemetery that doubles as a park

I visit this cemetery all the time as it is close to my residence and a very pleasant way to spend a few hours. In some portions the graves are over a hundred years old, so you find many gravestones with the names of old... more

Well if you need a good run..other than that

Why would you want to come here? It's a beautiful cemetery to run, walk or bike in. Such a relaxing feel in the centre of midtown.

Well, paying respect is part of life for those that have had departed loved ones.

This is a well-maintained cemetery in the heart of Toronto.

Lots of runners and cyclists taking advantage of the tranquility of the grounds and huge trees.

death is a business...and business is good...morbid enough for you?
this has to be one of the most lavish cemeteries in Canada, and huge in size, to the point where people often use the grounds as a jogging or training path. spanning from Yonge street to Bayview. holding just over 168,000 burials(ground and non ground?) its almost like stepping into a time warp just to see the different stones... more

Good place to walk around all night until you find some cigarette smoking teens. I tried to tell them about Rammstein but they didn't like that. I guess teens just don't like nice guys like me anymore.

One of the nicest cemetery's in the city. Historic, well kept, an oasis in the busy city.Great place to take a walk. My only issue is that its so expensive to buy a plot there, guess its a little like any good real estate in Toronto.

I don't know why this Yelp profile is named "Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries". That's the company name. Their office is on Overlea Boulevard in East York, in case anyone is wondering.

Any way, I'll review the Mount Pleasant cemetery itself. Well...

I have relatives in this cemetery, so I go every so often. It's one of Toronto's greatest and most historic places, in my opinion.

I see... more

For years, having seen snippets of this cemetery flash by while on the subway, I've wanted to explore these grounds. Yesterday I had the chance and I am in awe of its beauty.

Perhaps it sounds strange to some but I thoroughly enjoy walking through cemeteries reading headstones and enjoying the calmness. I don't know, I guess I find it peaceful.

This cemetery is so vast that I used the help of... more

On behalf of my family I just wanted to express a thank you to the people at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery they were respectful and treated us well throughout a very difficult process.

Great place and what an amazing oasis for tree and plant lovers.
Wonderful place for runners and walkers to find some peace in this crazy city.
Would have rated higher but they sadly don't allow dogs or roller blades... more

Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a well kept, beautiful cemetery adorned by flamboyant as well as more modest monuments, graves, and mausoleums. Walking through the various plots (but on the actual grounds! That is too disrespectful), you see different points in time of Toronto history. Early Anglo-Saxon families (late 1800s) to more recent times. This also carries a difference in surnames, how... more

Mixed review:

(1) For the cemetery and what is contains, five stars. Agree with other reviewers. Comparable to other great 19th century cemeteries, with perhaps not as many folks of international renown. Beautiful monuments with some unusual ones mixed in, plus lovely landscaping.

(2) For the management and the families of the wealthier inhabitants (or perhaps the proper word is decadents),... more

Yeah, it definitely feels weird to rate a cemetery. But at least it's the nicest cemetery in the city.

Mount Pleasant is in that nice area of uptown where there are lots of street level shops but you can still see that there was once grass beneath all the concrete. The area already has a lot of gorgeous public parks (especially around Lawrence) but Mount Pleasant takes the cake for gorgeous.
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Mount Pleasant is reminiscent of an old European cemetery, with lots of ostentatious (and not-so-ostentatious) monuments, graves, and mausoleums. It's perhaps even more diverse, since pretty much every style of interment and marker is found here. Sure, there's lots of regular headstones, but there are also plenty of celtic crosses, obelisks, stars of David, Greco-Roman columns, and even a few... more

I feel weird to rate a cemetery. 4 stars, I'm not "yay! I'm a fan", but rather, "this is a really nice place". my grandma has been buried here since before I was borne. I've grown up with this cemetery and it's a place that is very close to my heart.

The cemetery itself is pretty large. It covers both the East and West side of Mt Pleasant. My Grandma is buried on the East side. The first thing... more

My aunt took me to Mount Pleasant Cemetery on a snowy winter day. Because of the weather, we didn't spend too much time there but I had the feeling of tremendous tranquility and peace. The grounds are extensive in this historic cemetery, founded in 1876.

I came to pay my respects to Glenn Gould, the brilliant and eccentric pianist who lived in and loved Toronto (and Canada). We picked up a map... more

Beautiful grounds

This is a beautiful cemetery with many paths for walkers and bikes, and a great way to get from bayview to yonge bypassing the concrete jungle.

Enjoy the amazing monuments. Many with photos of loved one lost. Check out the car-tire monument (just east... more