Canadian Necrology databaseA source of obituary and death information for both prominent and lesser-known Canadians, covering a time span from the late 18th century to 1977.
It contains over 20,000 records; the majority come from newspapers such as the Globe and Mail, Toronto Daily Star, Gazette, and Mail and Empire; an additional 4,000 records were compiled by William Henry Pearson (1831-1920), a Toronto resident with a lifetime passion for necrology.