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Trevor Crean
Director and co-founder of Heritage Gardens Cemetery in Surrey, British Columbia, a family-owned green burial cemetery.
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Oct 16, 2026
Best Of: Trevor Crean from Heritage Gardens on forward-thinking cemetery ideas
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13:15Trevor CreanGUEST
they would not let them open a new cemetery, and it's because there's, there's not really, uh, there's not accountability at the level that the government wants.
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13:24Trevor CreanGUEST
Like, basically, if you're a secretary in a parish office, and the fa- and, and some grieving family calls you, and you say, "C- can, can we buy a plot in the Greek Orthodox section?" or something, and you have a secretary filling out a contract, sends it to them, they buy the plot.
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13:41Trevor CreanGUEST
Like, say the family didn't understand the terms and conditions, or they didn't understand the monument requirements.
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13:46Trevor CreanGUEST
So there's all these little nuance things that can go wrong, and now you'd have families trying to take, like, a church to task, but there's ...
Trevor Crean from Heritage Gardens in Surrey Canada joins us for a great conversation on forward thinking ideas for Cemeteries.
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11:30Trevor CreanGUEST
so after w- so we sold the property in a, in a, like, a joint deal with, um, a developer, and we moved into our cousin's funeral home in New West, basically.
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11:40Trevor CreanGUEST
So the two families were operating there, and we had a small storefront, like a little arrangement office in Vancouver while we were leasing and renovating a new funeral home for ourselves in Vancouver there.
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11:51Trevor CreanGUEST
Um, once we were all operating together, both families were just like-That's how you run a funeral home? And we were [laughs] kind of shocked at, at the style of the approach.
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