Cemetery Services

To honor life in the face of loss it is important to us that you are informed and prepared when interment arrangements are needed. The Robinson Memorial Park cemetery is open to residents and former residents and those who have family members interred in the cemetery. 

Pre-Planning is available for casket burial is offered to residents who are 65+ or have lived in Coquitlam for 20+ consecutive years, or have family members interred in the cemetery.

Pre-planning for cremation burial is offered to residents who have lived in Coquitlam for 3 consecutive years, and former residents 3 consecutive years within the last 10 years, non-residents rates are available. 

Definition of a Resident and Family Member 

Resident: means any person who resides, or immediately before death resided, in the City and can provide proof in the form of tax notices, utility bills, a property title search or similar document showing that the person was a resident for a continuous period not less than three (3) years immediately before the date of application for a Right of Interment or Intermit Permit. 

Former Resident:  means any person who resided in the City for a continuous period of three years within the ten years immediately before the date of application for a Right of Interment or Interment Permit. Providing proof of same in the form of tax notices, utility bills, a property title search or similar document showing that the person was a resident for a continuous period of three years within the ten years before the date of application, or who swears an affidavit attesting to his or her former residency in the City. Bylaw No. 5000, 2021 3. Definitions

Family Member: means parent or step-parent, a grandparent or step-grandparent, a sibling (natural, adopted or step), a spouse, a common-law spouse, a child (natural, adopted or step), a grandchild (natural, adopted or step), a mother-in-law, a father-in-law, or son in-law or a daughter in-law. Bylaw No. 5000, 2021 3. Definitions

For pricing information on everything that is available, see our Cemetery Fee Schedule.

Interment and permit fees can typically include: 

• Administration and permanent record keeping (determining ownership, obtaining permissions and the completion of other documentation which may be required, entering the interment particulars in the interment register, maintaining all legal files. 
• Preparing the interment location to receive the deceased, placement and closing the grave (locating the grave, excavating, filling and closing the interment space, use of heavy duty equipment.
• Installation, use and removal of lowering device; 
• Placement and removal of artificial grass dressing and/or matts at the grave site, leveling, tamping, re-grading and sodding the grave site;
• Perpetual maintenance of the grave site, including leveling, and re-sodding the grave. 
• Administration and documentation of memorial permits .
• Preparation and placement, removals, installations of memorial headstones.

Right of Interment of interment means a certificate that provides for the future right to inter human remains or cremated remains in a designated lot. The right of interment does not include the interment permit the opening and closing of the lot nor the memorial permit for memorialization.

Traditional Casket Burial Double Depth Lawn Crypt Burial/Interment

Traditional casket burials graves also referred as Double Depth Lawn Crypt are pre-installed cement crypts that can be used for one or two caskets. A single double depth lawn crypt grave may inter up to two caskets and a maximum of eight sets of cremated remains in four urn vaults. 

Green Burial (pending)

The City of Coquitlam is in development to offer green burials. Green burial generally means the body isn’t cremated or embalmed. Biodegradable caskets, shrouds, and urns are used. It may support land conservation and sustainable practices, and natural reforestation for the dedicated area. 

In-Ground Cremation Burial/Interment

Cremation Lawn Plots are in-ground cremation graves in an urn vault 13”L x 8”W x 9”H accommodating 1-2 urns. With the option to memorialize with a 12”x20”x3” granite lawn marker which is flush with the ground. 

In-Ground Cremation Burial/Interment with Memorial Wall Plaque

In-ground cremation burial/interment with wall memorial plaque includes the urn vault 13”L x 8”W x 9”H which is placed in front of the corresponding memorial wall plaque the inscription is not included. 

Family Cremation Tree Estate

Estate trees run along the cemetery roadway, maximum of eight cremated remains included are four pre-installed cremation liners to hold up to two urns. A granite pillow monument on a base is included. Family is responsible for inscriptions and associated permit costs. 

Granite Wall Garden Niche 

Cremated remains are interred in an urn vault into the ground at the base of the wall, with a granite plaque memorializing the individual on the wall.

Wall Niche

Cremated remains are interred in a niche in the wall with a granite plaque memorializing the individual on the wall.

Scattering Garden 

A scattering garden is a place within the cemetery where loves ones can scatter the cremated remains amongst a collection of trees, plants and flowers. The cemetery crew maintains the garden for the benefit of cemetery visitors and must be present when a scattering takes place. A granite memorial to hold memorials is located in this garden for those wishing to place a memorial. Memorials are not mandatory. 

Memorial Circle Wall

A memorial-only option is provided for those who may be laid to rest in another location, which may include, but is not limited to, another cemetery, scattered, another country, or if a body was never recovered. 

Graveside Service Options

• Watch/Lower option: permitted but may be discouraged at certain times of the year. 
• Watch/Close: permitted but may be discouraged against at certain times of the year. 
• Graveside: committal services, not watch or close permitted.
• Canopies and Tents: available free of charge for inclement weather and shade from heat.
• Graveside seating: available free of charge.

View additional grief, financial and cemetery resources available for families. 

General Resources

For a full listing of the below, please email Cemetery Services.

• Funeral homes in the Lower Mainland
• Monument companies in the Lower Mainland

Grief, Palliative Care, Advance Care Planning Support

• BC Bereavement Help Line
• BC Children's Hospital Grief and Loss
• BC Hospice Palliative Care Resources
• Hospice Palliative Care
• Crossroads Hospice Society
• Advance Serious Illness Planning

Financial and Legal Assistance

Through the Ministry of Social Development a supplement may be provided to pay necessary services and costs of any person who dies in BC if the family unit or the estate of the deceased person has no immediate resources to meet these costs. 

 When a death occurs, a legal representative for the deceased must be determined. Section 5 of the Cemetery, Interment and Funeral Services Act explains the guidelines for establishing legal representatives. Also see the Cremation Interment and Funeral Services Regulations

 The Public Guardian & Trustee of BC  has a legal responsibility to protect the rights of mentally incapable persons, minors, and the estates of missing persons and deceased persons where there is no one willing or able to act as executor. 

Workplace Accidents

• WorkSafeBC Guide for Families
• WorkSafeBC Permanent Disability & Death Benefits

Victims Services

• Crime Victim Assistance Program
• Insurance Corporation of BC

Veterans Affairs

• The Last Post Fund
• Department of National Defence Description of Benefits

Survivor and Other Death Benefits

Human Resources Development Canada provides survivor benefits through the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security.

Complaints

If you have a complaint or concern with a cemetery operator or funeral provider, first try to resolve the concern directly with the provider. If this fails, reach out to the BC Funeral Association in Victoria. If the concern is still not resolved, put it in writing and send it to Consumer Protection BC.