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What Our Prices include:

• A Licensed undertaker to meet with the executor at their home, our office or electronically
• Transportation of the deceased from any local hospital, care facility or house 24/7 to our sheltering facility
• Handling the documentation to register the death, produce the original death certificate and disposition permit
• Sheltering the deceased until the time  of burial or cremation with no limit on the number of days sheltered
• Body preparation as requested and indicated by the service type (non-embalming or embalming)
• Use of one of our Cadillac hearses and equipment
• Products are additional and can be viewed at our online store
• Staffing for the cemetery/crematorium (including additional pallbearers if needed). ​
• We help coordinate third party expenses like: newspaper obituaries, flowers, catering, venue rental and celebrants

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Burials

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Standard Burial $2,497

This service is the process of laying your loved one to Rest In Peace with an honourable send off with a committal ceremony conducted at the cemetery plot. 

Funeral or Visitation Service $2,997

This service allows for family and friends to have a gathering prior to the burial. The Funeral  or Visitation may take place at a church, community hall, or at our preparation facility’s chapel.

Funeral Service with Visitation $3,497

This service gives the family an opportunity to have a time of visitation with immediate family or hold an evening vigil service prior to the more public funeral ceremony. This is typically done over two days or at two venue locations. 

The above prices include 1 original death certificate. Casket, government fee and taxes are additional.

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Cremations

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Standard Cremation without body preparation $2,002

Our standard cremation service without body preparation is an option for when the care of the deceased has taken place prior to transportation. Aside from that, everything else is the same as our Standard Cremation. Price includes fee for the crematorium and 1 original death certificate, as well as personal delivery of the ashes to the family home or cemetery. ​​

*Using our Eco Cremation Trundle and Ancient Burials Standard Urn, along with the Consumer Protection BC government fee and taxes our all-in price is $2,499.95

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Standard Cremation $2,497

Our Standard Cremation provides body preparation for the deceased so that a honourable send off can occur. As with all our services, the deceased is also given a last ride in our Cadillac hearse to our preferred community crematorium. We also schedule the cremation and look after the person's send off on your behalf. Price includes fee for the crematorium and 1 original death certificate, as well as personal delivery of the ashes to the family home or cemetery. ​

*Using our Eco Cremation Trundle and Ancient Burials Standard Urn, along with the Consumer Protection BC government fee and taxes our all-in price is $3,019.70

Funeral or Visitation Service $2,997

This service allows for family and friends to have a gathering prior to the cremation. The Funeral  or Visitation may take place at a church, community hall, or at our preparation facility’s chapel.

Funeral Service with Visitation $3,497

This service gives the family an opportunity to have a time of visitation with immediate family or hold an evening vigil service prior to the more public funeral ceremony. This is typically done over two days or at two venue locations. ​

Funeral Service with Visitation and Burial of Ashes $3,997

​Once the funeral and cremation are completed, this option includes assisting with the burial of the ashes conducted at your choice of local cemetery.

The above prices include 1 original death certificate and the cremation fee from our preferred local community crematorium. Cremation casket, urn, government fee and taxes are additional.

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Shipping  Options

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Domestic Ship-Out with No Ceremony $1,997

This service looks after all the preparation and paperwork for having someone flown out of town, within Canada.

International Ship-out with No Ceremony $2,997

This service looks after all the preparation and paperwork for having someone flown out of town, outside of Canada.

Prepare for Ship-out After Ceremony  $1,000

This service is added to a Visitation or Funeral Ceremony

Ship-in Reception  $1,000

This service is added to a Visitation or Funeral Ceremony

The above services may require additional costs for items like consulate, translation, government fee's and taxes.
​Country specific caskets and/or shipping container may also be required.

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D-I-Y Home Funerals

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D-I-Y Home Funeral  $902

This service will allow a family to have their loved one brought directly from a hospital or hospice to their home and then provide all the paperwork for the family to transport the person to their choice of cemetery or crematorium.

​Delayed ​D-I-Y Home Funeral $1,402

This service includes everything from the D-I-Y Home Funeral, and provides you time to prepare by sheltering your loved one at our preparation facility until the time when your ready to bring them home.

​Delayed D-I-Y Home Funeral ​with body preparation $1,897

This service includes everything from the Delated D-I-Y Home Funeral, and also includes the service to have the person's body prepared prior to coming to the home. Embalmed or not embalmed, both options are provided in this price.

The above prices include 1 original death certificate. Casket, government fee and taxes are additional.

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Assisted
​D-I-Y

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​​Transfer Coordination  $450

This service provides you a licensed funeral director, transfer vehicle, and stretcher to move someone from a hospital or hospice to a home.

​Paperwork for disposition & private transfer $452

This service includes: registration with vital statistics to produce disposition permit and the Consumer Protection BC private transfer permit. As well as 1 original death certificate is included.

​​Home Preparation House Call  $995

Is your loved one already at home? Do you want help to prepare their body? This service provides you a licensed embalmer who will attend to the family home and help the family prepare their loved one's body through a non-embalming process to bath, dress and if present also casket.

​D-I-Y  Burial $1,697

Would you like us to prepare everything for you, so you simply come pickup your loved one for their burial? We can make that happen for you. We'll provide all the necessary ​paperwork and body preparation. Your allowed to do the transportation with a CPBC transport permit. As a family or community you then perform the ceremony and burial without needing to have funeral home staff present.

Casket, government fee and taxes are additional.

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Children Services

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We try to assist families as much as we can, both financially by simply covering our costs, as well as professionally by being as accommodating as possible. ​

Stillbirth Direct Burial  $250

This service is done on behalf of the family by the funeral home staff. We provide a stillbirth casket at no cost.

Children 10 and under $500

This service provides the choice for a burial, viewing, and/or funeral with the use of our hearse, and support of our staff. The family is encouraged to build the child a casket if possible, otherwise caskets are available for purchase if needed. 

Certificates of Remembrance or Death Certificates are $27 each. Government fee and taxes apply.

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Exhumation 

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Exhumation $997

Our Exhumation service consists of the disinterment of an individual’s remains under the supervision of our licenced undertaker. The remains may then be moved to another section of the same cemetery, moved to another cemetery or brought to our preparation facility as part of further arrangements.

The above service may require additional costs for items such as the purchase of a new casket/urn, cremation fee. Government fee and taxes are applicable.

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Trade Services

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Ancient Burials is glad to help other funeral providers .

Please call us to determine how we can be of assistance

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Pricing Disclosure

Prices effective March 1, 2020 and are subject to change without notice. 
All services subject to Government Fees and Taxes. This includes the Consumer Protection BC Fee $40, 5% GST on all services and items, and 7% PST on all products. Additional Death Certificates can be purchased for $27 each.
Burial caskets start at $795, Cremation Caskets $295, Urns $33.30. You may also choose to provide your own casket or urn.