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Trevor Crean

Director and co-founder of Heritage Gardens Cemetery in Surrey, British Columbia, a family-owned green burial cemetery.

Oct 16, 2026

13:15
Okay
13:15
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13:15
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.
13:24
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.
13:38
But it's, it's ...
13:41
Like, say the family didn't understand the terms and conditions, or they didn't understand the monument requirements.
13:46
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 ...
14:23
Ah
11:30
Oh my goodness
11:30
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11:30
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.
11:40
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.
11:51
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.
12:01
And we're in two different demographics.
12:03
Uh, like it all makes sense.

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29:11
Yeah

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