Victoria and the Gulf Islands

Death Midwifery/Home Funerals (pan-death care, at home post-death care, and funerals/memorials)

• Journeying Beyond — Victoria — ‘end of life’ consultation, Death Midwifery and related services. Email: contact us or phone Pashta MaryMoon (250) 383-4065. Phone or Skype consultation also available (see also En~chanting Beyond and E~merging Beyond websites).
• Planning a Funeral or Memorial Service — including doing it on your own (see Making Your Own Funeral Arrangements)
• Medi-van Canada — Victoria and Kelowna — licensed to transport dead bodies; contracts with families choosing a home funeral but without adequate vehicles.

Funeral Celebrants

• Journeying Beyond — Victoria — Death Midwifery and related services. Email: contact@beyonds.ca or phone Pashta MaryMoon (250) 383-4065. Phone or Skype consultation also available.

Green Burial and Supplies

• Royal Oak Burial Park Woodlands — Victoria, BC — first fully Green Burial Ground in Canada.
• About the Denman Island Memorial Society Green Burial Ground — Denman Island, BC — once completed, may be first ‘green burial only’ cemetery in Canada. For updates, email: dims@telus.net
• CINDEA‘s Post-death Care page — offers 6 designs for shrouds for green burials or cremation (includes graphic and written instructions).
• Rawganique willow-hemp caskets — Denman Island, BC — handmade, eco-friendly, can be ordered in specific sizes and shipped worldwide.
• Little Spirit Garden — Victoria, BC — public memorial space for parents/families to grieve loss of a baby, accessible to all.
• O.U.R. Ecovillage — Shawnigan Lake, BC — burial of ashes on protected land.
• Art World — Victoria, BC — Gouache paints suitable for painting coffins for Green Burial or cremation (from M. Graham Co).
• Everygreen Cremation Centre Ltd — Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo, BC — one of the few funeral homes that still offers plain cardboard caskets.

Grief and Bereavement Services (including the loss of a child before or after birth)

• Support Following a Death — Victoria Hospice bereavement support. Various grief/bereavement services and support groups for individuals, families, and children.
• BC Bereavement Helpline — free, confidential service connecting the public to grief support services within BC. Outside Greater Vancouver: 1-877-779-2223
• GriefShare — online personal study, seminars, and grief recovery support groups.
• Compassionate Friends — support when a child dies. See Victoria contacts on B.C. chapter page. Contact: Compassionate Friends-Victoria
• Little Spirit Garden — A Community Remembers Facebook page — support for families/friends in Victoria to acknowledge and grieve the loss of their child before or at birth.
• KidsGrief.ca — helps parents support their children through a close person’s death or dying.
• Empty Arms Facebook page — supports families who have experienced a pregnancy or birth loss in Victoria.