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The first step is to select a funeral home and let them know where the death has taken place. They will arrange for your loved one to be transferred into their care. To reach Edson Funeral Home, call 1-800-238-3462 at any hour. We will then set up an arrangement time that works best for your family.

If you request immediate assistance, yes. If the family wishes to spend a short time with their loved one to say goodbye, that’s perfectly acceptable. Your funeral director will come when your time is right, keeping travel time in mind.

Helping others cope with the emotional upheaval of a major loss is a funeral director’s most important job, but they also take care of all the logistics of the funeral service, 24 hours a day. That begins with arranging the transfer of your loved one into our care and completing the documentation. At the arrangement meeting we guide you through how you would like to honour your loved one, then contact the church, clergy, musicians, hall, caterer and cemetery on your behalf. We prepare the casket or urn, personalization, stationery, guest book and monuments, place the obituary on our website (with family approval) and in newspapers of your choosing, and complete the paperwork: registering the death with Vital Statistics, Funeral Director’s Statements of Death, burial permits, and Canada Pension Plan notification and benefit applications.

Burial in a casket is the most common choice in Canada. Cremation is often selected because it allows the memorial service to be held at a more convenient time, when relatives and friends can come together. A funeral service followed by cremation need not be any different from one followed by burial. Usually, cremated remains are placed in an urn before being committed to a final resting place: buried in a cemetery plot, placed in a columbarium, or scattered according to provincial law.