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The Toronto Necropolis — located near Riverdale Farm in the east end of the riding—is one of the city’s oldest cemeteries. It opened in 1850 as a replacement for the city’s “Potter’s Field,” and is the resting place of many notable Torontonians. The list includes William Lyon Mackenzie, the first mayor of Toronto and leader of the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion, George Brown, one of the Fathers of Confederation, Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott, the first black Canadian-born surgeon, and former NDP leader Jack Layton.