Memorial Societies in Canada |
Funeral Co-operatives |
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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.
AlbertaNorthern, 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 British CoLumbiaPeople’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 SaskatchewanFuneral 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 ManitobaFuneral 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 northern OntarioMemorial Society of Northern Ontario
Funeral consumer planning information for the residents of Sudbury and North-Eastern Ontario. http://www.memorialsociety.ca/ msnot@gmail.com 705-671-3753 / 1-866-203-5139 Mail: Box 1355, Stn. B Sudbury, ON P3E 5K4 southern ontarioFederation 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/ The Funeral Information & Memorial Society of Guelph & Area
Box 1784 Guelph ON N1H 7A1 memorialsociety_guelph@hotmail.com Kevin Mooney 519.835.9603 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 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 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/ 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.
OntarioFuneral 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 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 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.
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