Manitoba Funeral Insurance

Manitoba Bereavement Authority

The Funeral Board of Manitoba is made up of a Chair and five other members; two of whom are licensed, funeral directors. The Chair is appointed by a Provincial Minister and other members are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

The board is committed to improving funeral and cemetery services, ensuring that the marketplace is made fair, ethical and transparent. The funeral board is a non-profit regulatory organization whose function is to protect consumers in the province. The funeral board administers The Funeral Directors and Embalmers Act, The Prearranged Funeral Services Act, and the Cemeteries Act.

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Manitoba Obituary and Mortality Rate

Manitoba’s mortality rate per 1,000 population has faltered over the years between 2013 and 2017. The province recorded a very high mortality rate of 8.4 in 2014 but the mortality rate fell to 8.2 in 2015 and 8.3 in 2017.

An obituary in Manitoba is a public announcement in a newspaper or online about a dead resident. The notice of death includes a brief biography of the dead resident and information about the funeral, burial or cremation.

Manitoba Funeral Insurance Guide

The Funeral Board of Manitoba provides support to residents for prearranging and arranging a burial, funeral or cremation in the province.

The body provides guidelines for the establishment of a funeral home as well as services to the crematorium and cemetery operators and transfer services. You can contact the funeral board by phone at 204-947-1098 or fax at 204-945-0424.

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Manitoba Funeral Insurance News

A Manitoba judge and a chartered accounting firm managing a funeral home in Winnipeg in receivership want the Funeral Board of Manitoba to settle issues involving ashes and assets at the home.

Lazer Grant Inc. representatives met with Judge Chris Martin met on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, to present a report of their progress in getting the Wheeler Funeral Home ready for resale. Wheeler Funeral Home, Cemetery and Crematorium entered into receivership ordered by the court on March 20, 2018. The funeral home is now managed by Lazer Grant LLP, a chartered accounting firm.

Winnipeg police financial crimes unit already launched an investigation on a fraud report involving the funeral home. Lazer Grant said they need a former funeral director at the Transcona business, Chad Wheeler, to help them in finding funds and records for prepaid services and pre-purchased cemetery plots.

Tom Frohlinger, counsel for Lazer Grant, told Judge Martin that the major problems are lack of records and lack of co-operation. Collin LeGall, the managing partner at Lazer Grant handling the case, confirmed that a body that has been kept in the funeral home for three months has finally been released and is on its way out of the province on a Tuesday morning.

The family paid $8,000 to Chad Wheeler for body transportation and also funeral service. The funeral took place but the body transportation did not happen. Commenting on the event, the daughter-in-law of the dead man said it is so hard losing a loved one, especially when the death is so sudden, and it's even more difficult in such a situation as theirs.

She said the situation is like a nightmare after finding out that in March that the body did not arrive in February. CBC News refused to disclose the family’s name because they did not want to upset or alarm other members of the family about the incident. The managing partner Joel Lazer said that the body is embalmed and sealed inside a blue coffin and Lazer Grant Inc. would be absorbing about $2,000 to ship it out of province.

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