Editing John Turner (section)

== Death and state funeral ==
[[File:Prime Minister John Turner gravesite photo.jpg|thumb|Turner's grave site in Mount Pleasant Cemetery]]

Turner died on September 19, 2020, at age 91,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/world/canada/john-turner-dead.html|title=John Turner, Briefly Its Leader but Long a Force in Canada, Dies at 91|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 2020|last1=Austen|first1=Ian|access-date=October 5, 2020|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204044801/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/world/canada/john-turner-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/john-turner-state-funeral-october-six-1.5734949|title=Former prime minister John Turner to be honoured with state funeral Oct. 6|access-date=September 23, 2020|archive-date=September 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925105838/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/john-turner-state-funeral-october-six-1.5734949|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|date=2020-09-23|title=A State Funeral Will Be Held in Memory of the Right Honourable John Napier Wyndham Turner|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2020/09/a-state-funeral-will-be-held-in-memory-of-the-right-honourable-john-napier-wyndham-turner.html|access-date=2020-09-24|publisher=[[Department of Canadian Heritage]]|archive-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120222903/https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2020/09/a-state-funeral-will-be-held-in-memory-of-the-right-honourable-john-napier-wyndham-turner.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54220721|title = John Turner: Former Canadian prime minister dies at 91|work = [[BBC News]]|date = September 19, 2020|access-date = September 19, 2020|archive-date = September 19, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200919214510/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54220721|url-status = live}}</ref> from [[congestive heart failure]].<ref>Paikin, Steve (2022), p. 285</ref> A [[State funerals in Canada|state funeral]] was held for Turner on October 6, 2020, at [[St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica (Toronto)|St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica]] in Toronto. The ceremony was scaled back due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] with masking and [[social distancing]] protocols in place and attendance to be limited to 160 guests with no [[lying in state]] being possible.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{cite news |title=John Turner remembered as principled politician, loyal friend, great Canadian |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/john-turner-state-funeral-1.5751958 |access-date=March 24, 2024 |work=CBC News |date=October 6, 2020}}</ref> Turner was buried in a private service at [[Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto|Mount Pleasant Cemetery]].<ref>Paikin, Steve (2022), p. 294</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/MountPleasantGroup/videos/335952644300783/ |title=Archived copy |website=[[Facebook]] |access-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-date=December 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220170424/https://www.facebook.com/MountPleasantGroup/videos/335952644300783/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Turner and Mackenzie King are two former Prime Ministers interred at Mount Pleasant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/sepulture-gravesite|title=National Program for the Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers|date=July 21, 2023|website=[[Parks Canada]]|publisher=Government of Canada|access-date=August 28, 2023}}</ref>