Located a short distance west of Fort York, this burying ground occupies an area of 1.82 acres bounded by Strachan Avenue on the west, the tracks of the Canadian National Railway on the north, a surveyed line on the east, and a former railway right-of-way on the south.1

It is the city's third military cemetery. The first had been the old graveyard on Portland Street (Victoria Square) whose use from 1794 to 1863. The second military burying ground was situated on the Garrison Common within the present CNE Grounds near the Dufferin Gate. Only five or six interments took place there before the soil was found to be too wet and unsuitable for a cemetery. Then, for a second time within four months, the military authorities had to pick a new burying ground. By mid-October, 1863, the lands on the east side of Strachan Avenue had been chosen and guidance was being sought from religious leaders on how to deal with the few burials in the second cemetery. In early November Toronto City Council was asked if it had any objection to the opening of another military graveyard. By the latter part of December a number of coffins had been moved to the new place. The remains of Private Walsh were among those transferred, since a gravestone bearing his name still survives in the Strachan Avenue cemetery today.

Unfortunately, no register of burials pertaining to the cemetery is known to exist, but estimates have put the number around 200. The list of soldiers, veterans, their wives and children who died between 1862 and 1911. A majority died from natural causes like asthma, consumption and aneurisms, but significant numbers drowned. Most burials took place before 1870, when the British army turned Fort York over to the Canadian military and returned home. The religious affiliations of about forty-two are known: thirteen were Roman Catholic, nine were members of the Church of England, while the rest were "Protestant". Also it is known that 55 Americans (buried in a mass grave), 62 British regulars, 5 militia and 8 native allies are buried here, their names lost to us.

38 Headstones have survived and have been placed into brick walls, but only about 12 are still readable.