Ebook: A better place: death and burial in nineteenth-century Ontario

Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of loss in a century where death was always close at hand. This book describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario.;Part I Death and burial. Death and attitudes -- Pioneer death and burial -- Elaboration is the norm -- Victorian customs, the Civil War, and the rise of funeral homes -- The beginnings of cemeteries -- The establishment of cemeteries in three towns -- The establishment of cemeterire in Toronto -- Differences according to religion -- Origins of funeral customs -- Conculsion.