Cemetery Services
The City of Brantford Cemetery Services is honoured to assist families in a caring and comforting environment. Please find below a listing of some of the services that the City of Brantford Cemeteries has to offer:
- Guidance with arrangement of interments (burials), both traditional and cremation disposition.
- Guidance with interment rights (lot purchase) options – “pre-need" or “at-need”.
- Guidance with arrangement for disinterments (removal of remains). The Medical Officer of Health must be contacted unless it is the disinterment of cremated remains.
- Provide cold storage of remains if required, on a temporary basis.
- Maintain Perpetual Care and Maintenance Trust Funds.
- Interpretation of the Cemeteries Act, for the purpose of estates, ownership, and interment rights inquiries.
- Provide historical and genealogical information while adhering to the Privacy and Cemeteries Act of Ontario.
- Provide historical walking tours to interested groups.
- Provide professional care & maintenance of cemetery grounds, facilities, gardens and turf.
- Installation of markers and concrete foundations.
- Restoration and maintenance of markers to ensure safety within the grounds.
- Installation of columbarium plaques.
- Offer Commemorative Benches and Trees for purchase.
- Offer the Flowerbed and Potted Plant Service for purchase.
- Installation and maintenance of memorial benches, trees and lot services (flowerbeds, potted plants on stands).
- Offer a diverse selection of Fall and Winter Wreaths for purchase.
- Maintain Shrub Removal Program for Mount Hope and Greenwood Cemeteries.
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