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#1 Mike K.

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Posted 13 September 2016 - 03:07 PM

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McCall Gardens opens in Saanich as company nears 100 years of funeral services

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McCall Funeral and Cremation Service has announced the opening of its Saanich-based state-of-the-art funeral services and celebration of life facility.

 

The 15,000 square foot McCall Gardens and Sequoia Centre on Falaise Drive ushers in a new era for a company nearing a celebration of its own.

 

“After almost a century at Johnson and Vancouver streets and some 50 years in our 1960’s-era building, we knew that we needed a new facility, and the options were to invest a lot of money into our downtown space or look at redeveloping our Sequoia Gardens Memorial funeral home in Saanich,” said McCall’s Vice President, Trevor McCall. [Full article]

 

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#2 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 13 September 2016 - 03:14 PM

When I saw the heading I was thinking someone was asking for a recommendation, like for aluminum gutters.


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#3 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 13 September 2016 - 03:16 PM

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It's great that I can keep one eye on the Blue Jays game during the service.


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#4 Mr Cook Street

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Posted 13 September 2016 - 03:17 PM

They should open the back patio for drinks when they aren't booked. 



#5 AllseeingEye

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Posted 13 September 2016 - 03:19 PM

Well in that case VHF I could "recommend" McCall's unreservedly. First class operation and people who helped greatly in organizing our father's service back in 2012. Although in the old location the main theater had seating for 500 people, not sure based purely on that pic whether the new facility has that much capacity to offer. A very nice looking building though.....



#6 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 01 January 2023 - 11:13 AM

New York has become the sixth state in the United States to legalize natural organic reduction, popularly known as human composting, as a method of burial.

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#7 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 04 February 2024 - 04:33 AM

As costs rise, low-income funerals short on funding, province told

 

The B.C. Funeral Association said the province hasn’t increased funding to its burial program for low-income individuals since 2008
 
 
 
The Provincial Burial Program, administered through the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, pays $1,285 to funeral providers for bringing the deceased person to the funeral home, registering the death and filling out paperwork. The cremation or burial is paid at cost.
 

Another $815 is provided for a small service if a family wants it, but that barely pays for a room or chapel rental, let alone a service with staff, said Tuck.

 

There is no money for markers or gravestones in cemeteries. The deceased’s remains are laid in a very basic casket or urn purchased at cost and the only record is online and on paper in registries.


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 February 2024 - 04:33 AM.


#8 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 25 February 2024 - 04:47 AM

A forestry company planted evergreen seedlings beside a cemetery in Port Alberni on Friday, weeks after its logging crew harvested a stand of mature trees up to the edge of the property — despite assurances that it would not do so.

 

Alberni Valley Memorial Gardens, a cemetery along Highway 4 near Port Alberni, had a reputation as a peaceful and tranquil place, with a mature forest serving as a backdrop to the headstones. That changed when Mosaic Forest Management exercised its right to harvest a plot adjacent to the cemetery in January.

 

The work caused an uproar in the community.

 

“Shame on you for timbering those trees near a cemetery, where my relatives and friends are buried,” Leslie Walerius, 72, wrote to Mosaic. “It’s difficult to believe that you couldn’t come up with an alternative way to manage/harvest the forest.”

 

Walerius said while she understands the safety risk of trees being toppled by high winds, she couldn’t understand why foresters employed by the company could not come up with an alternative.

 

“If they were concerned with blowdowns, arborists could have been called to spiral prune the trees. We know they could have done better,” she said.

 

 

 

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 February 2024 - 04:47 AM.


#9 Nparker

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Posted 25 February 2024 - 07:04 AM

The dead won't care one way or another.

#10 Tony

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Posted 25 February 2024 - 01:05 PM

Purpose & Characteristics of a CemeteryA cemetery is responsible for providing dignified care for those buried within its grounds, and to be a comforting place for visitors and mourners who attend the cemetery to remember, pay tribute, and honor departed individuals.



 



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