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RSS FeedsNo embalming. Maybe no casket. Will green burials become the new normal in Canada?
(The Star Food)

 
 

2 december 2019 14:20:53

 
No embalming. Maybe no casket. Will green burials become the new normal in Canada?
(The Star Food)
 


Brian Culp is talking about a Toronto cemetery because he is, after all, in the business of burying bodies.“The Massey is like a castle with a Greek goddess on top,” he says, referring to a crypt in the city’s Mount Pleasant cemetery for members of the Massey family, the farm-manufacturing dynasty that also built Massey Hall.“Stavro’s is beyond imagination,” says Culp of the memorial there to Steve Stavro, the late founder of Knob Hill Farms and former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The tomb is adorned with bronze plaques, has lions on each corner and is topped with a statue of Alexander the Great riding his favourite horse, Bucephalus.“The granite goes 30 feet in the air,” says the 70-year-old, relaying how a friend in the business says the stone alone cost $800,000.Culp’s interest in history is evident as he talks, sitting in a restaurant in Jordan, Ont., just down the road from St. John’s public cemetery where he is superintendent.It’s his love of history, he says, that pushed him into the cemetery business after careers as an alderman and a General Motors worker.“I love history,” he says. “I majored in history at university.”When asked for the connection, he says dryly, “All the people in history are dead.”But it certainly does not mean Culp is stuck in the past.St. John’s is one of a handful of cemeteries in the country with a dedicated section for natural burials, a fairly new trend here despite their increasing popularity in Britain and even the U.S.Culp is sure natural burials are going to take off.“Based on experience, I have no doubt for multiple reasons,” says Culp, who has run St. John’s since the mid-90s, “One is the green aspect. The other is cost. The other’s expedience.”The first green burial in Britain took place in 1993. There are now 350 sites across the U.K. They have even become as popular as conv ...


 
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