Green Burial Manitoba

04/26/2026

Grateful to see Sheldon Birnie's article this week in our local community newspaper. Green Burial options are growing and we've had many in other cemeteries in non-'green' sections to accommodate families who wish to be loving to the environment.

01/28/2025

our earlier post announced our first NDAN event for 2025!

Death historian Dr Dan O’Brien presents a tour through the unpredictable world of the eighteenth-century burial ground. In a period before the emergence of cemeteries the burial ground was a familiar and practical solution to the inevitable problem of death. It had often been in continual use for centuries and was a resting place for the generations that was situated at the heart of the community that it served. Yet, the burial ground was not only a place for mourning and its residents did not always rest so peacefully. In this talk we will hear about the different people that might be found in a burial ground and the very eclectic range of activities that they were involved. Expect games, animals and crime in the spaces where undertakers brought the dead to be buried, where mourners gathered by taper light and where the sexton practiced the hazardous task of digging the most final of homes.

Book now for this event to be hosted on Friday 7-February.
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1330505?fbclid=IwY2xjawICRFRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU-sUU3d8VO1vYCxJHQMVjx5kf8Yq4-NpokS18xNdNiLn5s_LECFN-obhg_aem_bnC_y6c-dxLaaZNxYi7_2w

01/28/2025

01/28/2025

Prairie Flora nursery in Teulon, MB is a member of Bee Better MB’s Growers Program. This article by Coleen Zacharias was in the Winnipeg Free Press, Sat. Jan. 25

12/12/2024

World Wide Candle Lighting Celebration

On December 8th at 7 pm local time, hundreds of thousands of bereaved families will gather around the world to light a candle in honour of their loved one who has died.

At 7:00PM in every time zone, families all around the world will light a candle in honour of their loved ones.

As candles burn down in one time zone, they are lit in the next, creating a 24-hour wave of light that encircles the globe.

May their light always shine.

12/12/2024

We're excited to announce our first NDAN event for 2025!

Death historian Dr Dan O’Brien presents a tour through the unpredictable world of the eighteenth-century burial ground. In a period before the emergence of cemeteries the burial ground was a familiar and practical solution to the inevitable problem of death. It had often been in continual use for centuries and was a resting place for the generations that was situated at the heart of the community that it served. Yet, the burial ground was not only a place for mourning and its residents did not always rest so peacefully. In this talk we will hear about the different people that might be found in a burial ground and the very eclectic range of activities that they were involved. Expect games, animals and crime in the spaces where undertakers brought the dead to be buried, where mourners gathered by taper light and where the sexton practiced the hazardous task of digging the most final of homes.

Book now for this event to be hosted on Friday 7-February.
https://www.trybooking.com/CXSFH

10/26/2024

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10/25/2024

A couple months ago a sweet woman phoned and said, ‘I am hoping I can come to your house, my doctor told me about you.”

This week we had the honour of caring for the brilliant force that opened Spokane’s first planned parenthood. An elder who faught for choice in this state, for safe healthcare for people with a uterus.

Sometimes when we care for people, our family grows in size, this was definitely one of those times. L&A, thank you. Thank you for sharing your love and being so brave, your mamma sure did grow a brilliant legacy- in you two and all her work for choice.