Formerly the Ontario Hospital New Toronto and Mimico Asylum Burial Grounds, this cemetery is now named the Ontario Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery. Established in 1890, the cemetery contains the remains of over 1500 individuals who died at the Mimico Asylum/Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital. Construction of the hospital's 60 acres on the shore of Lake Ontario began in the 1880s as a healthy respite facility for patients who would be transferred from the province's existing asylums. The first burial at the cemetery took place in 1890 and the last in 1974. For 84 years the cemetery was used to bury patients who had no family or lack sufficient funds to make other arrangements. The cemetery was divided in half by a central north-south unpaved road. Roman Catholics were buried on the west side of the cemetery and Protestants were buried primarily on the east side. The rows are marked at each end by a small square stone inscribed with a letter or number corresponding to the burial register there are 50 graves end to end. Most of the graves are unmarked. The placement of small markers with the name and the years of birth and death of each deceased began in 1957, and these form the bulk of markers in this cemetery. Grave markers for military veterans form the second most significant source of the markers and are mostly men predating the above group. There are almost no marked graves for women that predate 1957.

Notes on Navigating the Cemetery The oldest graves are closer to the north end near the QEW (a highway) and progress chronologically towards the south end (bordering Evans Avenue). The exception to this chronological order are a few rows nearest Evans Avenue (at the south end of this cemetery). The four marked graves in this section are one grave in the Catholic section and three in the Protestant section: West side (Catholic): George Moskolenko (1883-1947 - Private – 198 Battalion CEF – Canadian Expeditionary Force WW1) East side (Protestant): Cameron John Tinkis ((1898-1946) - Railway Construction Battalion, CEF); Robert Dickson Limebeer ((1871-1946) - 71 Battalion, CEF); Ernest Vrooman ((1885-1950) - Private, 162 Battalion, CEF). The earliest marked burial is for Charles Lees ((1880-1920) - Private 147 battalion CEF. 

A Brief description of the Affiliated Institution where these people lived and died: The Mimico Branch Asylum opened on January 21st 1890 under the administration of the Asylum for the Insane Toronto (which eventually became known as the Queen Street Mental Health Centre). It received its first 116 patients on that day in 1890 from Toronto with the exception of 10 male patient laborers who had been resident since 1889 to prepare the site for the later occupants. In 1892 it was decided that the renamed Mimico Asylum would become an independent facility. It remained an independent facility until it was re-merged with the Queen Street facility in 1979 and then closed. Most of the hospital's buildings and grounds adjacent to the shore of Lake Ontario are still in existence, have been featured in several movies including Police Academy when they were vacant, and now most of the remaining buildings house Humber College's Lakeshore Campus buildings surrounded by Samuel Smith Park.