The City Morgue is the workplace of Dr. Julia Ogden. It is the facility where postmortems are conducted for the Toronto Constabulary. It is also the workplace of Rebecca James who starts off as the morgue's cleaner in Season 9 and who Dr. Ogden takes under her wings.
Dr. Emily Grace, Ogden's former protégé, and Dr. Francis served as coroners when Dr. Ogden left the morgue during Season 5 - 8 and Season 4, respectively.
The morgue skeleton "Shelley" was acquired and named by Dr. Emily Grace.
During her first visit to the City Morgue in Master Lovecraft, Mrs. Brackenreid, who wants to discuss the book Dracula with Julia, is frighten to death by H.P. Lovecraft lurking in the cold storage.
Trivia
- The establishing shot used for the City Morgue and Station House No. 4 buildings in Cabbagetown is actually the 1859 Victorian pump house at the Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology on Woodward Avenue in Hamilton.
- Created by Production Designer Sandra Kybartas, original plans of Police Station No. 4 and the Morgue are in Investigating Murdoch Mysteries: The Official Companion Book.
- Series Body Count: >246 (and counting)
Gallery
The spectroscope in Concocting A Killer
Dr. Ogen and Miss James in Colour Blinded
Rebecca with Detective Murdoch
Merry Christmas, Shelley!
In "The Glass Ceiling"
In "The Knockdown"
Work Station
Surgical Instruments
Embalming Fluids
Morgue apothecary table
Morgue microscope
Wash Station
Anatomical Chart
Last Morgue shoot for Season 9