Primarily during/post death care

CINDEA Post-death Resources — Canada — listings for Home Funeral Guides and Pan-death Guides, and Funeral Celebrants

End of Life Pathways — St. Albert — family-directed post-death care, and funeral alternatives.   Contact Sarah Wourms by Email or Phone (587) 290-4465

Journeying Beyond — Victoria — death midwifery services — offering pan-death (before, during and after death) education and support to families, including home funeral and funeral celebrant services; support in a MAiD death: as well as advance-care planning consultation, particularly comprehensive Advance Directives and Representation Agreements.     Pashta MaryMoon is available by phone, email or Skype for consultation     Email or Phone (250) 383-4065 and Facebook page

Death Matters — Halifax — home funeral guide and funeral ceremony services (including pre/post-death 'celebration of life') — as well as spiritual and personal care directives and on-going support for 'exit planning', regular 'end of life'-related film night, Death Cafes and development of green burials — Deborah Luscomb and Dawn Carson are available via email or Phone (902) 403-7590

Funeral Alternatives — Hamilton — offering education sessions and individual consultations re after-death care and home funerals, green funeral and burial options, Ontario regulations pertaining to after-death care and burial.  Rochelle Martin is available by phone or email for consultation Email or Phone: (905) 746-3074

Journeying Beyond — Victoria — death midwifery and Advance-care Planning services, including personalized funeral/memorial services.    Contact Pashta MaryMoon via Email or Phone (250) 383-4065; Skype or Zoom consultation also available; Facebook page

Ready or Not — Ottawa city and valley — life-cycle celebrant specializing in funerals/ end-of-life celebrations/ memorials — one-of-a-kind, personalized, memorable ceremonies.   Contact Julie Keon Email or Phone (613) 646-9912

• Saying Farewell — Alberta Health (PDF see page 19 for home funerals).
• Registration of Death and Death Certificate, and
• Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
• Gone too Soon — navigating grief and loss as a result of substance abuse
  plus Community Deathcare's Provincial Home Funeral Documentation Pathways

• Government pages on "Dealing with Sudden Death" (PDF),
• Expected/Planned Home Deaths,
  Notification of Expected Death in the Home (PDF),
• Registration of Death (available only directly through the Vital Statistics office),
• Death Certificate Application(PDF), and Death Certificate,
• Consumer Protection contact info, Consumer Protection generalities re cemeteries and crematoriums
• Information on Private Transport Permits [Notice "However, sometimes we get requests from individuals who wish to take personal responsibility for the transfer of remains of a loved one to a funeral home, crematorium or cemetery." — which implies that the body may not go to a funeral home before being transported for final disposition] Private Transport Permit,
• Private Property Burial Permits,
• Hierarchy of those allowed to make post-death decisions,
  Governement offices that will help with death registration,(where no Vit Stats office)
• Funeral Service Association, and
• Coroners Service Contact Info,
• plus Community Deathcare's Provincial Home Funeral Documentation Pathways

• Government "Dealing with Death",
• Registration of Death and forms,
• Dead Bodies Regulation (note: focus on special infectious disease — no requirement to use funeral director),
• Vital Statistics Act (see ""lay funeral director" definition) and
• Death Certificate,
• Consumer Protection contact info, and
• The Role of the Chief Medical Examiner's Office,
• plus Community Deathcare's Provincial Home Funeral Documentation Pathways

• Death Certificate, and
• Coroner's Service

• Death Certificate, and
• Coroner Services,
• plus Community Deathcare's Provincial Home Funeral Documentation Pathways

• Government—Death Registration,
• Vital Statistics Act (PDF: see definition re 'funeral planner', and sections 60 and 61: representative of Vit Stats has confirmed that home funerals are allowed, no transport permit required; but as in most provinces, a burial permit is needed to transport)
• Death Certificate (direct PDF download), and
• Coroner's Service
• plus Northwest Territories pathways

• After the Loss of a Loved One,
• Preparing for Death and Dying (at home) [note: excellent, but doesn't include home funeral info], [statement from NS Vital Statistics —"There is nothing in our Vital Statistics act that precludes a family member from transporting a body."],
• Expected Death at Home Form and Process,
• Application for Death Certificate, and
• Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

• Application for Death Certificate, and
• info for contacting the Office of the Chief Coroner

• What to do when someone dies (info — see "If you do not use a funeral service provider"),
• EDITH (Expected Death in The Home) form and information,
  Consumer Information Guide to Funerals, Burials and Cremation services and form at Bereavement Authority of Ontario's A Guide to Death Care in Ontario (PDF) (see "Transporting the Dead Body" pg 7 and "Family-led Death Care: page 10) or Arrange a funeral, burial, alkaline hydrolysis, cremation or scattering (see "If you don't use a provider"), or BAO's Family-led Deathcare
• Family Access to Cremation Permits,
• Death Registration — Statement of Death and form (PDF), and
• Death Certificate and How to Apply, and
• Coroner's Office (Ask for or download 1. Warrant to Take Possession of the Body of a Deceased Person, and 2. Warrant to Bury the Body of a Deceased Person),
• plus Community Deathcare's Provincial Home Funeral Documentation Pathways

• Caring for Your Loved One at Home:P.E.I. Guideslines for Managing the Expected Home Death
• Death Certificate, and
• Coroner

• Government re general death information,
• What to do in the event of Death (PDF guide to death issues),
• To Order a Death Certificate, and
• Office of the coroner (we couldn't find the English version, but you can google the page andhave it translated)
• plus Quebec pathways
• Note: Quebec has more restrictions on home funerals than other provinces — see Sections 34 and 65 of Bill 66 and What to do in the event of death . However, Bill 66 states "The washing of a body in the context of a funeral rite or practice does not constitute embalming" so may be allowed at home.

• Government "Dealing with Death",
• Saskatoon Health Nursing Manual PDF (see 3.24-5 re not using a funeral home),
• Funeral and Cremation Services Act PDF, (see 4(2) re family transporting body)
• Funerals, Cremation & Burial (see 'burial' re not using funeral home),
• Funeral and Cremation Services Council of Saskatchewan (see 'can I perform any funeral services myself?),
• order Death Certificate
• Consumer Protection, and
• Office of the Chief Coroner,
• plus Community Deathcare's Provincial Home Funeral Documentation Pathways

• Public Guardian and Trustee,
• Preparing for death: a guide for caregivers (see "after death")
• Death Certificate, and
• Coroner's Service
• plus Yukon pathways

Memorial Society of BC — listings for all of the Memorial Societies in Canada (see right side menu), as well as other BC and Canada-wide death-related resources

Green Burial Garden, Heritage Garden Cemetery — South Surrey — home to our very own pollinator meadow with two resident bee hives.  Email   Phone: 604-538-0074

Sunrise Park Inter-Faith Cemetery — Hatchet Lake/Halifax — offers green burials    Email Phone:902-880-4944

Canadian Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Services — Directory of Services — most of which will have grief/bereavement support programs

Specifically for those choosing or witnessing MAiD

Living Through Loss Counselling Society of BC — information, counselling and referrals where necessary, BC Bereavement Helpline, Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society,
Mission Hospice Society Bereavement Support & Resources, Prince George Hospice Rainbows Child Grief Support , Broken Circle and Grief and Grub for Guys, North Okanagan Hospice Society Grief and Bereavement Services, BC chapter of Compassionate Friends

Canadian Mental Health Association , Palliative Manitoba Bereavement, Manitoba chapter of Compassionate Friends

E-Mental Health NS grieving, Caregivers NS Association Grief & Bereavement, 211 Nova Scotia Grief and Bereavement Support, Grief Therapists in Nova Scotia, Virtual Hospice Grief NS, Hospice Halifax Grief and Loss (resources beyond Halifax)