The HANGMAN’s GRAVEYARD project represents a partnership between Ballinran Productions, History Television and Archaeological Services Inc. Filmmakers and a team of talented archaeologists trying to raise public awareness and reach a popular audience with stories about Toronto’s forgotten past and one of its most important buildings, the Don Jail.

In 2007, as part of Bridgepoint Health’s exciting new redevelopment plan, Archaeological Services Inc. began an investigation to uncover the Murderer’s Graveyard, home to some of Canada’s most infamous rouges, rakes and criminals, in the parking lot immediately behind the Don Jail. The team of archaeologists uncovered 15 burials and began a process of identifying each of the individuals and re-interring their remains in a more suitable cemetery.

Who were these men?

What where their crimes?

HANGMAN’s GRAVEYARD is produced by Ballinran Productions in association with History Television and Canwest Broadcasting with the participation and support of the Canadian Television Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit.