Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is a 145 acres cemetery in Thornhill

Thornhill, Ontario

Thornhill is a community in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, located on the northern border of the city of Toronto. Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of...

, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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 north of Toronto

Toronto

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Located on Yonge Street

Yonge Street

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 south of Highway 407, it was created in 1954 by the Archdiocese of Toronto

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto

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 as an alternate burial grounds for Catholics in Toronto

Toronto

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Main entrance is from Yonge Street and the large Holy Family Mausoleum from the north end of the cemetery.

Notables buried here include:

• Philip Francis Pocock
  Philip Francis Pocock
  Philip Francis Pocock, , was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto from 1971 to 1978.-Early years:Born St. Thomas, Ontario and studied at St. Peter's Seminary, London, Ontario. In 1933 he left his parish to studied canon law in Rome . He became an ordained Priest in 1930 and became a professor...
  
  
• Gerald Emmett Carter
• Aloysius Ambrozic

Other Catholic Cemeteries in the Greater Toronto Area

Major properties in the GTA include:

• St. Paul’s Church Cemetery 1822 - Toronto
• St. Michael’s Cemetery 1855 - Toronto
• Hope Cemetery 1900 - Toronto
• Resurrection Cemetery 1964 - Whitby
• Assumption Cemetery 1968 - Mississauga
• Queen of Heaven Cemetery 1985 - Woodbridge
• Christ the King Cemetery 2004 - Markham

There are a list of smaller cemeteries as well:

• Mount Peace Cemetery, Mississauga
• St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Streetsville
• St. Mary’s Cemetery, Brampton
• St. Mary’s Cemetery, Port Credit
• St. Luke’s Cemetery, Thornhill
• St. Michael’s Cemetery, Toronto
• St. Francis De Sales Cemetery, Ajax
• St. Wilfred’s Cemetery, Ajax
• St. Gregory’s Cemetery, Oshawa
• St. John the Evangelist Cemetery, Whitby
• St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Scarborough
• Our Lady of Victory Cemetery, Scarborough
• Queen of Clergy Cemetery, Scarborough
• St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Markham