Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park, Toronto

About Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park

”Jewish Community Cemetery The land known as Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park was once called the Woods Cemetery. It once belonged to a farmer whose name was Woods. The Words Farm was purchased in the early 1930s by the Ivansker Mutual Benefit Society. At that time the Chairman of the Ivansker Burial Committee was Henry Lederman. Together with 4 members of the Society they entered into a deal to purchase the land. The 4 others are Getzel Cohen, Alter Myerchick, Shmuel Kaplansky and Shlomo Flodervasser. The efforts and foresight of these members of the Ivansker Mutual Benefit Society was fortuitous for a very large part of Toronto’s Jewish Community. Initially forty five synagogues and societies purchased segments of the Cemetery from Ivansker, In later years other organizations purchased parts of these segments. By 2007 there were 55 separate cemeteries making up Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park . Read more

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