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      The parish of St. Joseph's, Toronto, was officially created in 1878.The church itself was erected in 1884 and was opened in 1886 by Bishop Mahoney. Disaster would befall the parish in 1907 when fire destroyed the church. It would take two years of renovations before the new church was finally …

      In the Archdiocese of Toronto, original parish registers are not available to the public. Please DO NOT contact parishes for access to these registers.

      In the pioneer era of the early 19th century, when Catholic cemeteries had not yet been established within the Archdiocese of Toronto, Catholics were buried in private family plots or in public cemeteries. In either case they were usually deprived of resting in consecrated ground. By the 1820s and 1830s, …