Books: The Toronto Book of the Dead

The history of Toronto is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful: War and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances. The Toronto Book of the Dead explores these morbid tales: From First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist.

As Toronto has grown from a muddy frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass, it has witnessed countless lives lived and lost. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.