Islington Burying Ground
A plaque in the cemetery erected by the
       Etobicoke Historical Society
in 1967,
reads as follows:

The Islington Burying Ground
Established in 1835 as a public cemetery,
 this site was deeded to a board of Trustees
in 1862 by Amasa Wilcox.
It is now administered by
the Cemetery Board for
the Borough of Etobicoke

However, it is the opinion of the
Ontario Genealogical Society, based on
the quantity of surviving evidence,
that the burial ground was first used
about the year 1844;
being contemporary to the opening
 of the adjacent Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
on June 30th, 1844. 

It was not until 1862
 that Amasa Wilcox deeded this one-half acre
piece of ground to a Board of Trustees
“for the use of the public as a burial ground
and for no other purposes whatever”.

Wilcox had not received the patent
from the Crown for the property
until 1842.

This suggests that gravestones inscriptions
prior to 1844 probably commemorated those
buried elsewhere or indicated that the grave
was moved to this cemetery
some time after 1844.

This cemetery was originally called
the Mimico Burying Ground.

The area was known as Mimico
until the establishment
of the Islington Post Office in 1859.

The cemetery was first referred to as the
Islington Burying Ground in the
1864 trustees’ account books.

 In April 1862, the cemetery trustees
passed a motion that the cost
of an internment would be fifty cents.

 However, on October 12, 1862, this regulation
was waived to allow for the burial of a
“child of a man in the employ of
Mr. Peter Shaver, too poor to pay”.

In 1910, Miss Margaret Montgomery
was granted permission to plant the row
of Austrian pine tree which still stand.