See Agatha's historical site about the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital.
Also see the Psychiatric Survivor Archives, Toronto.
Information Brochure in PDF format.
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
See a video of volunteer commentary by Ed Janiszewski.
The land for the cemetery was acquired in the 1880s.
The first burials occurred in 1890, and the last in 1974.
Over the 84 years 1525 people we buried. Fourteen people were disinterred
by family, leaving the 1511 graves that we currently know about.
Between 1957 and 1973, small granite makers we placed at 154 graves.
The Cemetery has been referred to as:
Potters Field (Mimico)
Mimico Hospital Cemetery
Mimico Hospital Cemetery
Evan’s Avenue Cemetery
Ontario Hospital Cemetery (New Toronto)
Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital.
It remains unmarked, unnamed and all but forgotten.