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Andrew Porteous

Section R, Lot 20
Toronto Necropolis


Porteous was born in 1781 in Montreal, Quebec, and died in 1849 in Toronto, Ontario. His body was stored in the Dead House, and his was the first burial at Necropolis on May 22, 1850.

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