Don Jail Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario

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Coordinates: 43.66578, -79.35409
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Cemetery was under the parking lot on the East side of building. The land is now owned by Bridgepoint Hospital, which is to redevelop the land. It is keeping the historical building of the prison. The lawnbowling clubhouse is to be removed to a different site. Up to now, they have dug up 11 graves. People buried there if their kin didn't claim them.
The building was built by architect William Thomas in 1852.
See under Wikipedia under Don Jail.
The men listed convicted and hung at this jail, will be listed under their own names, and who they murdered, or robbed. If you know of any of them that are buried elsewhere, please let me know, so they may be put to rights.
As the great grand neice of William Woodside, Governor of the Don Jail at one time, I have recorded the people hung for various convictions.Also note that they dug up 15 bodies in the back parking lot, and want the family of these men and or women to come forward and claim them, as after a number of days they are to be interred elsewhere, and/or together. Now's the time.