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It was founded in 1927 by the chevra kadisha, the Jewish community's volunteer burial society, as the Toronto Hebrew Funeral Parlour and functioned as a co-operative. In 1937, it acquired a building at 331 College Street, formerly the location of H. Ellis & Son Funeral Directors, where funeral services would be held.
In the week before the funeral, Layton's body was laid in state at Parliament Hill at the House of Commons foyer and was open to the public from 12:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday then at Toronto City Hall on Friday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. [37] [38] Four Parliamentary security officers were ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2025. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2025 1 Viktor Alksnis, 74, Russian politician ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
In 1995, The Lethbridge Herald was the first Alberta newspaper to introduce an Internet edition. On 6 September 1996, it switched to full morning delivery. [2] In 2011, Alta Newspaper Group published the biweekly Lethbridge Journal. [4]
John Albert Gogo (February 15, 1932 – April 4, 2015) was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993 and served several years in the provincial cabinet.
Eaton's grave at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. On January 21, 1985, Eaton was stabbed twenty-one times and then raped in her Farnham Street apartment [1] in Toronto. An acquaintance of Eaton's, Ernest John Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, [2] also known as Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, who was himself a member of the prominent Canadian Osler family, admitted to murdering her, but was found not guilty by reason of ...
As a division of the City of Toronto, its annual funding level is established by a vote of Toronto City Council. In 2020, Council approved a budget of $271.191 million gross and $47.953 million net, with a staff complement of 2,435.2 positions. [1]