Our Purpose.


Since our inception in 1952, we have strived to provide Greater Sudbury with a community owned funeral home that satisfies the needs of mourning families with a dignified, compassionate and professional approach. We're proud of our reputation for quality of service, staff professionalism, and the relationships we've developed with our members and clients over the last sixty years, and we look forward to continuing this tradition.




Our History.


The very first cooperative funeral home in Canada was established in Downtown Sudbury, at 73 Beech Street in what was known as the Ducharme Funeral Home. While many followed suit and there remains many others across the country, we are the only remaining cooperative funeral home in Ontario.




The concept of a community owned non-profit cooperative funeral home was such a success that in 1963, we relocated to a newly constructed state-of-the-art location 57 Notre Dame to meet the requirements of the community. As tremendous urban renewal projects were underway in the late 60s, a new location was create on the corner of Lasalle and Notre Dame, where we continue to operate today.




Soon thereafter, to continue to meet community demand, we expanded our services to the Chelmsford community by purchasing the J.A. Gratton Funeral Home on Main Street, and opened a new location on Regional Road 15 in 1972.




In 1994, we expanded to Valley East by opening our third location at 4570 St. Joseph Street. Today, we continue our tradition of pursuing new ways to better service our members and our community, having opened the Cooperative Crematorium, conveniently attached to our Chelmsford location.