Other Services We Provide
Additional Visitation
At the request of the family, the funeral home will offer an additional day of visitation (includes an afternoon and evening visitation).
Receptions
The funeral home offers the use of a room in the funeral home where families may offer a time of fellowship after the funeral. Staff will set up, clean up, and provide assistance during your gathering.
Extended Care Services
Families that choose the Alexander & Houle Funeral Home for their services will receive, at no charge, a follow up visit in which our directors will come to your home and assist you with the Canada Pension forms, bring the funeral package from your services rendered, return health card, and discuss, explain and/or help you in any manner needed following the funeral.
Resources & Pamphlets
Our funeral home provides families with various pamphlets that share a wealth of information and guidance that may help families to cope during and after the loss of a loved one. Theses pamphlets are available at no cost or obligation to you. Topics included are: Pre-Planning Your Funeral; Understanding Cremation; How to Get Through The First Weeks and Months After A Death; What to Know About Grief; Helping A Friend Through Grief; Twelve Ways to Deal with Your Grief; When Grief Surprises You; Is It Grief or Is It Depression?; Losing Your Spouse; Loss of A Parent: Teenage Grief; Helping Children Grieve; Grieving Children with Depression: Children & Grief By Ages & Stages; Loss of A Child; How to Rely On Your Faith While Grieving; Coping with Grief During A Holiday; Honouring & Coping with Anniversaries of Loss; Grief & Suicide Loss Survivor; and Losing A Loved One To AIDS.
In Memoriam Cards
Families may choose to bring in a picture, poem, or special passage to further personalize these keepsake mementos. Each In Memoriam Card made should reflect the families wishes and the life of their loved one. Being creative and designing unique cards are helpful in the grieving process.
Prayer Cards
When serving our Catholic families, foreign languages can be transcribed to these prayer cards. A picture, poem or a special passage may be used to further personalize these keepsake mementos.
Memorial Portrait Presentation
Photographs reflect the life lived and capture your loved one’s journey in life. Share these special memories with your family and friends that gather to celebrate the life lived. Please ask our staff for more details and their assistance.
Audio Visual Funeral Recordings & Live Streaming
Audio visual funeral recording and live streaming are available for family and friends that are unable to attend or wish a copy of the funeral service of their loved one. Please ask our staff for more details and their assistance.
Memorial DVDs
Ask our staff about making a memorial DVD in memory of your loved one. Simply bring in your photographs and our staff will do the rest. Life tributes are a wonderful legacy of a loved one’s life journey to share with family and friends.
Should total costs be onerous to your family, please contact your funeral director concerning allowances, pension benefits and other assistance which may be available to your family. The professional services of this funeral home are available to all families.
Personalizing a Service often provides a more memorable and meaningful Service. Please let us know how we can help.
Making Memorial Donations
Ask our staff about making a memorial DVD in memory of your loved one. Simply bring in your photographs and our staff will do the rest. Life tributes are a wonderful legacy of a loved one’s life journey to share with family and friends.
Should total costs be onerous to your family, please contact your funeral director concerning allowances, pension benefits and other assistance which may be available to your family. The professional services of this funeral home are available to all families.
Personalizing a Service often provides a more memorable and meaningful Service. Please let us know how we can help.
