The octagonal dead house is peculiar to Southern Ontario, essentially used as receiving or mortuary crypts to hold the dead during the cold winter months. It is believed that only seven exist with a possible eighth somewhere in the Niagara Region. Today they are mainly used to store equipment not the dead.
This video takes you inside one along with a bit of history with some of the artifacts still used by the cemetery care taker to this day.
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