Our Burial service is the process of laying someone to Rest In Peace with a committal ceremony conducted at the cemetery plot or no ceremony. This work includes transportation from place of death to our facility 24/7 , meeting with the executor at their home or our office, handling the necessary documentation to register the death and produce the official death certificate and disposition permit, sheltering the person until the time of burial, use of our hearse and equipment, preparation of the body (non-embalming or embalming), direction and staff at the cemetery (including additional pallbearers if needed).
Burial with a Funeral $2,997
Our Burial with a Funeral option allows for family and friends to visit with the deceased prior to the burial. Funeral and/or visitation may take place at a church, hall, or at our preparation facility’s chapel.
Burial with Visitation and Funeral $3,497
The Traditional Funeral is the time tested process that gives the family and community opportunity to gather, visit and mourn. The visitation or prayer service typically provides an intimate gathering prior to the more public funeral ceremony.
The above prices include 1 original death certificate. Casket, government fee and taxes are additional.
We also provide a variety of third party purchases including flowers, obituary's, catering, headstones, and others.
Cremations
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. Fee for the cremation and delivery of the ashes is included to the family home or cemetery.
Standard Cremation $2,497
Our standard cremation service provides care for the deceased so that a honourable cremation can occur without ceremony. Fee for the cremation and delivery of the ashes is included to the family home or cemetery.
Cremation with Funeral $2,997
Our cremation with Visitation or Funeral provides family and friends the opportunity to visit with the deceased along with each other prior to the cremation. This could occur at a church, hall or at our preparation facility’s chapel.
Cremation with Visitation and Funeral $3,497
Our cremation with Visitation and funeral is the traditional funeral with cremation to follow. It provides the family and community opportunity to gather, visit and mourn. The visitation or prayer service typically provides an intimate gathering prior to the more public funeral ceremony.
The above prices include 1 original death certificate and the cremation fee from our preferred local non-profit crematorium. Cremation casket, urn, government fee and taxes are additional.
Do It Yourself Essentials and Assisted D-I-Y
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 "Lite" $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.
D-I-Y Home Funerals
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.
Shipping / Repatriation Options
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
Our Shipping Preparation option is added to a Visitation or Funeral Ceremony
Ship-in Reception $1,000
Our Shipping Reception 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.
Children Services
The death of a child is hard enough. 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.
Exhumation / Disinterment
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.
Trade Services
Ancient Burials is glad to help other funeral providers through our Trade Services.
Please call us to determine how we can be of assistance
Pricing Disclosure
Prices effective April 15, 2019 and are subject to change without notice. All services subject to Government Fees and Taxes. This includes the Consumer Protection BC Fee $30, 5% GST on all services and items, and 7% PST on all products. Additional Death Certificates can be purchased for $27 each. Adult caskets start at $795. You may also choose to provide your own casket.
