How Beechwood Cemetery nearly called Westboro ‘home’

Beechwood Cemetery is a picturesque cemetery that, for the past 148 years, has existed as the final resting place for over 82,000 Canadians.

It is Canada’s national cemetery, Canada’s National Military Cemetery and was designated as a national historic site in 2001. But did you know that Beechwood Cemetery originally came within a whisker of being established in Westboro instead?

It’s true! Westboro (then just known as “Thomson’s farm”) was chosen in 1872 as the location for the new cemetery, and, if not for a strong, last-minute public outcry about its inaccessibility from the city, our neighbourhood would have a completely different history.

Read more at: https://kitchissippi.com/2021/03/03/how-beechwood-cemetery-nearly-called-westboro-home/ 

Article by Dave Allston