Tabor Hill is an Indigenous burial mound in central Scarborough that was probably constructed by local Huron-Wendat peoples during the 14th century. The earthen ossuary was uncovered in 1956 by a steam shoveler attempting to flatten the mound during a residential development project. The tomb itself is roughly 50 feet long, seven feet wide, and one foot deep, and contains over 500 ceremonially interred individuals. 

This particular burial mound is thought to have been created as part of a contemporary ritual called the Feast of the Dead, in which the corpses of the dead were laid out to decompose for years before ultimately being cleaned and entombed in a pit. In October 1956, over 200 members of the Brantford Six Nations and thousands of Torontonians attended a days-long recognition of and tribute to the Feast of the Dead ritual that included a reburial of the Tabor Hill graves. 

Tabor Hill Burial Mound was designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act in 1994 and recognized as a Native cemetery by the City of Toronto in 1998.

(Research and text by Alessandro Tersigni.)