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Memorial Societies in Canada

Funeral Co-operatives

A memorial society is a not-for-profit community initiative to provide its members with access to high quality, compassionate funeral services free of high pressure sales. Discounted plans exclusive to members are negotiated with locally-owned funeral service providers.
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Alberta

Northern, Central and Southern Alberta (merged)
Cooperative Memorial Society
Suite 204A, 223-12 Ave SW., Calgary, AB T2R oG9
403-248-2044 / 1-800-566-9959
admin@calgarymemorial.com
www.calgarymemorial.com
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British CoLumbia

People’s Memorial Society of BC, and
Vancouver Island Memorial Society

Kerrisdale P.O. Box 18081
Vancouver, BC V6M 4L3
www.peoplesmemorialsocietybc.com
info@pmsoc.org

Memorial Society of British Columbia 
205 - 640 West Broadway Vancouver BC V5Z 1G4
https://memorialsocietybc..org
mail@memorialsoc.org
Tel: 604-733-7705 / Toll Free: 1-888-816-5902

Saskatchewan

Funeral Advisory and Memorial Society of Saskatchewan (FAMSS)
Box 1846
Saskatoon, SK. S7K 3S2
Tel: 1-866-283-2677 (within the province only)

Tel: 306-374-5190
http://www.famss.ca/faqs.html
info@famss.ca
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Manitoba

Funeral Planning and Memorial Society of Manitoba
613 St Mary's Rd

Winnipeg, MB R3M 3L8 
 
Tel: (204) 452-7999 (please leave a message)
http://www.funeralsocietymb.org/
E-mail: FPMSInfo@mts.net
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northern Ontario

Memorial Society of Northern Ontario
​Funeral consumer planning information for the residents of Sudbury and North-Eastern Ontario.
http://www.memorialsociety.ca/
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msnot@gmail.com
705-671-3753 / 1-866-203-5139
Mail: Box 1355, Stn. B
Sudbury, ON P3E 5K4
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southern ontario

Federation of Ontario Memorial Societies (FOOMS-FCA)
​Funeral Consumers’ Alliance

55 St. Phillips Road, 

Etobicoke, ON M9P 2N8
http://fooms-fca.org/fms

http://www.myfuneralplan.org/
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The Funeral Information & Memorial Society of Guelph & Area
Box 1784
Guelph ON N1H 7A1

memorialsociety_guelph@hotmail.com
Kevin Mooney 519.835.9603
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Memorial Society of Kitchener Waterloo
​Phone- 519.579.3800
Nina Furniss – 519.699.4028
Mail: 55 Northfield St. E., Suite 303
Waterloo ON N2K 3T6
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The Funeral Consumers Advocacy of London and Windsor
​http://www.fcalw.org/
Phone- 519.649.1014
Mail: Box 1729 Stn. B
London, ON N6A 5H9
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Funeral Information Society of Ottawa
​FISO, P.O.Box 32057, 1386 Richmond Rd.
Ottawa,ON K2B 1A1
613 828 4926
Email 
FISO@ncf.ca
http://web.ncf.ca/fiso/
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The Funeral Advisory and Memorial Society (Toronto)
​Memorial information and funeral planning information for the Toronto area, including the GTA and Hamilton areas.
http://www.fams.ca/
Email: info@fams.ca
Phone: 416-241-6274
Mail: PO Box 65 STN F
​Toronto ON M4Y 2L4

A funeral co-operative is a community initiative to provide its members with compassionate, high quality funeral services on a not-for-profit basis. It is community owned and operated by its members.
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Ontario

Funeral Co-operative of Ottawa Inc.
419 St. Laurent Boulevard, Ottawa ON K1K 2Z8
Phone: 613-288-2689
http://www.fco-cfo.coop
info@fco-cfo.coop
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The Cooperative Funeral Home of the District of Sudbury
(First Co-operative funeral home in Canada and probably the first in the world being founded in late 1951 and opened for business in 1952.)
​222 Lasalle Boulevard East, 

Sudbury, ON CA
P3A 1W5
Phone: 705-566-2100
Fax: 705-566-1324
Email: generalmail@cooperativefuneraire.ca
Daniel D. Johnston | General Manager & Funeral Director
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Funeral Co-operatives of PEI
http://www.peifuneralcoops.com/
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Fédération des coopératives funéraires du Québec
(Representing 23 funeral co-ops in Quebec)

548, rue Dufferin 
Sherbrooke (Quebec) 
J1H 4N1
Phone: 819 566-6303 
Fax : 819 829-1593 
Email : info@fcfq.coop

Funeral Consumers Alliances (United States)

Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) in the United States represents not-for-profit affiliates similar to memorial societies in Canada. Like memorial societies, they are dedicated to protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral. There are now about 70 nonprofit funeral-planning groups across the US.
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​Many FCA affiliates, with the help of their volunteers, do a price survey of area mortuaries. Some have been able to negotiate a discount at participating funeral homes, sort of like a cooperative buyers’ club. Some focus on education and advocacy only. Joining and supporting a local FCA group will help you save thousands of dollars on unnecessary funeral costs while ensuring we can protect a consumer’s last rights in your neighborhood and around the country. Fees to join are similar to CCMS.

Find a FCA in the US
Note: In eastern Canada funeral co-operatives have take the place of memorial societies
Cooperative Memorial Society (CMS)
Suite 204A, 223-12th Ave. S.W. Calgary, Ab. T2R 0G9 Canada (Appointments required)
1-403-248-2044 
​Toll free: 1-800-566-9959
admin@calgarymemorial.com

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​The Cooperative Memorial Society of Alberta would like to acknowledge that what we refer to as Alberta is the traditional ancestral territory of a diversity of Indigenous peoples and home to Treaty 6, 7, and 8. We honor the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika, the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta within the historical Northwest Métis Homeland. We recognize and give thanks to the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations, all who continue to grace these lands, and all future generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.
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  • Partners
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      • Troubleshooting Login >
        • Dealing with 3rd party cookies
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  • Advance Planning
    • Must-Have Documents >
      • Personal Directive
      • Enduring Power of Attorney
      • Will >
        • Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Alberta
    • Manage Your Estate >
      • Be Prepared
      • Adult Guardianship & Trusteeship
      • Selecting an Executor
      • Executor Duties
      • Executor's Checklist
    • Palliative & End-of-Life Care >
      • Hospice Care
      • Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
      • Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation
    • Body Donation
    • Family-Led Deathcare
    • Funeral / Memorial Service >
      • Funeral homes with CMS plans
      • After-death Documentation
      • Funeral Benefits
      • Cremation
      • Green Burials
      • AB Municipal Cemeteries >
        • Red Deer and Area
      • Obituary - Writing
  • Dealing with the Death of a Member
    • Death Benefit
    • Last Post Fund
    • Grieving Together
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