St. John The Baptist Norway Anglican Church 1919 - 2018, Toronto, York County, Ontario, Canada

St. John The Baptist Norway Anglican Church 1919 - 2018 

St. John Norway Church and Cemetery pictured here 1919 (Photos Courtesy of "The Beaches" Public Library, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

This is the original church of St. John's Norway Cemetery and Crematorium. The grounds were founded in 1853. At this time, the area around Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue was a little town called Norway.

Today St. John's Norway occupies approximately 35 acres at the northwest corner of Kingston Road and Woodbine Avenue. In 1853 Charles Coxwell Small had deeded three (3) acres of his land to the Right Reverend John Strachan, Anglican Bishop of Toronto, for the construction of a church and churchyard to serve the rapidly growing community of Norway, which subsequently became part of Toronto.

 In 1925 St. John Norway Church cemetery grounds reached the size it remains today (2018). There are 50,000 gravesites and nearly 80,000 interments.