MacKinnon and Bowes LTD.

02/17/2025

🌸 Spring Into Opportunity with the Funeral Service Foundation! 🌸

We're excited to launch our Spring Scholarship Season! Apply for scholarships and programs that’ll help you take your career to the next level:

✅ Academic Scholarships
✅ Academic Scholarships for Veterans
✅ Certified Celebrant Training 🕊️
✅ NFDA Embalming & Restorative Arts Seminar
✅ National Emerging Leaders Program 🌟

Apply today and take the next step in your journey!
👉 http://funeralservicefoundation.org/scholarship-opportunities

12/25/2024

Christmas Day 2024, There are 90 dedicated members of the MacKinnon & Bowes team working over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day.
Many firms generously give their staff time-off to be with family during the holidays. This results in December 25th being the busiest day of the year for MacKinnon & Bowes. I am proud of our dedicated staff that give of themselves in service of others at this very special time of year. Their dedication, commitment, and sense of duty enables others to spend Christmas with their families. For this and their professionalism, I am sincerely grateful. Erin Hipkiss, Rachel, Sienna and Cassandra led the team on Christmas Day. Today we were able to arrange Christmas dinner for everyone. In addition, in honour of the dedication of our employees to the ongoing success of our company Alex and I have made a donation to the Holland Bloorview Children’s Rehabilitation Hospital.
The telephone answering division will receive calls for over 850 firms in the US and Canada. It is a tremendous responsibility for these dedicated individuals to support the requirements of so many. My employees dedication is very much appreciated by everyone that works at MacKinnon & Bowes and also those that receive the benefit from their sacrifice today. Thanks very much to our group and a Merry Christmas to all.

09/20/2024

It's official! Scholarship Season is on at the Funeral Service Foundation! Thanks to our generous supporters, over 25 scholarships are available to students of mortuary science.

Learn more and apply at www.funeralservicefoundation.org/scholarship-opportunities/academic-scholarships/. All the cool kids are doing it 😎!

09/16/2024

We were delighted to attend the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital donor appreciation event this week. Thanks to Alison for including us and always encouraging our involvement in events and fundraising. Take a look at this remarkable hospital and consider them for your charitable giving.

09/10/2024

IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY-
Overnight transfer staff for our Toronto Location.
Please contact Alex@mackinnonbowes.com if interested.

08/23/2024

We were honoured to host a site visit for Peter Linford from the CPJ Field organization in England. The origin of the Field family firm dates back 300 years. Peter is in charge of education and training and has been with Field's for many years. We are always delighted to host people from around the world when they visit Canada.

06/12/2024

We were honoured to be represented by Jane Pigott last week at Collège Boréal for the annual Awards Ceremony.

The MacKinnon & Bowes Bursary is awarded to a graduate who showed outstanding professionalism to his/her classmates, co-workers, professors and to the families we serve.

This years recipient was Samuel Kellerman.

We were also lucky enough to be present to celebrate the retirement of Don Perrault, who we have had the pleasure of working with in the industry for years.

05/24/2024

Congratulations to all the recipients.

Congratulations to our Spring 2024 Academic Scholarship recipients, as well as our 2024 David C. Baue National Funeral Directors Association Professional Women's Conference Scholarship recipients and Meet the Mentors participants who went to Washington to learn from the best of the best! 🎉🎉

Read all about our scholarship recipients in our latest news release: https://www.funeralservicefoundation.org/funeral-service-foundation-awards-185000-in-academic-professional-development-scholarship-support/

And apply for a scholarship of your own at https://www.funeralservicefoundation.org/scholarships!

Thank you to all of our donors, volunteers, and friends as well as the organizations and institutions who make these scholarships possible!

05/07/2024