1. Potter’s Field (Former Paupers Cemetery) - 2 Bloor Street West

While the German Consulate is located high above Yonge and Bloor in the tower on the northeast corner, Toronto’s first public non-denominational cemetery was located here on the northwest corner. Known as Potter’s Field, it began in 1826 and by 1855 had around 6700 burials, often some of the city’s poorest people and victims of typhoid, cholera and other diseases of the day. By then it was near capacity, the town had grown around it and the cemetery closed. Plans were made to move it to a less central location. Relatives had 20 years to remove their loved ones’ bodies and those not claimed were moved to the Necropolis in Cabbagetown or the then-new Mount Pleasant Cemetery. It’s likely, though, that some bodies were missed in the process.

Note the clock sculpture here by the American artist Wendell Castle, installed in 1988. At this meeting point of two subway lines and two major Toronto streets, it’s possible to truly say “meet me under the clock”.