We offer a wide range of options to help you honour and remember your loved ones. Contact us to find the right option.
Our clients can choose interment options and locations. We encourage you to make an appointment so we can show you the available choices. For safety, final decisions remain at the discretion of City of Winnipeg Cemeteries.
For a full list of pricing and payment methods, see our fees and charges schedule.
Pre-planning
If you’re looking to plan for yourself or for others, we can review pre-planning options with you. Affordable pricing options are available. New interment properties are also available, interest free for up to one year.
Casket burial
Traditional casket burial lots are available at Brookside, St. Vital, and Transcona cemeteries. Casket burial lots can be used as a single burial space or can accommodate many family members. Most lots can have up to four interments, one casket interment, and up to three cremation interments above the casket burial.
Casket lots at Brookside and Transcona cemeteries can accommodate upright and flat markers. St. Vital cemetery only allows flat markers.
Concrete vaults or grave liners are allowed, but not required at all of our cemeteries.
Brookside Cemetery offers a limited number of lots in the older area of the cemetery. These lots are very popular because of their premium location and mature trees. This area allows for an upright monument on an individual foundation.
Brookside Cemetery now offers traditional and cremation natural burial options. A natural burial is an environmentally-friendly burial option.
Find more information on natural burials.
Cremation interments
We offer burial lots for cremation interments at Brookside, St. Vital, and Transcona cemeteries. These lots allow for a single burial space, or for many family members.
A columbarium niche is an urn in an above ground structure. It’s designed and used for the interment of cremated remains. Columbaria are made up of individual niches, which can house one or more urns containing cremated remains. The front of each niche can include an engraving to memorialize your loved one.
There are many columbaria to choose from. This includes the ‘Rock of Ages’ located in the Field of Honour at Brookside Cemetery. This area is reserved for those who have fought for our country, along with their family members.
Our cemeteries include small and large memorial boulders. This allows for the interment of cremated remains alongside a boulder. Most boulders are in the Garden of Remembrance. It provides a beautiful landscape and tranquil setting. The boulders include space for a plaque, which can memorialize your loved one.
Brookside, St. Vital, and Transcona cemeteries include scattering gardens. These are set aside for the in-ground interment of cremated remains. These areas are meticulously maintained and beautifully landscaped. Brookside and St. Vital cemeteries have a Book of Memories available. It provides options for memorialization on a personalized bronze plaque.
This underground chamber is for the loose/co-mingled cremated remains of loved ones. It’s available for use at Brookside cemetery and provides the most affordable option.
The Administration Office at Brookside Cemetery has a large display of affordable, high quality urns. They range in material from stone, marble, granite, and biodegradable options. Offered in many shapes and styles, urns symbolize beauty and eternity and create a permanent memorial to those who have passed. We can assist in helping you select an urn.
Note: Glass, ceramic, or pottery urns (i.e. breakable items) are not accepted. Wood urns are not recommended for use in outdoor columbaria.
Vaults combine technology and attention to detail to offer superior strength and protection.
If you’d like more protection for your urn or would like to include personal memorabilia, a cremation vault may be best. It is a reinforced outer structure that protects everything inside from moisture and weight of the earth. You could include flowers, a favourite book or toy, or other personal items.
Memorial options
We offer several memorial options to honour the life of your loved one.
Brookside and St. Vital cemeteries include a Book of Memories. You can place a personalized plaque to remember your loved one.
Our memorial benches are made of composite recycled plastic on stainless steel supports. The bench is then installed on a concrete foundation and built to last for many years. A commemorative plaque can sit on the bench with a personalized message.
Application to Purchase a Commemorative Bench Plaque (PDF, 75KB)
We plant 60-70 mm caliper basket stock to help ensure healthy trees. This guarantees replacement if it does not flourish within three years of planting. Contact us for a list of types of trees available for planting.
Memorial Tree Donation Form (PDF, 64KB)
The location for the bench or tree may be chosen by the donor. The Cemeteries Branch reserves the right to make the final location decision.
Donation options
All donations are tax deductible (except for the cost of memorialization). You will receive a tax receipt for the full amount paid at the end of the tax year.
You may donate to the City Cemetery Reserve Fund to help with the cost of maintenance of the cemetery grounds. Donations can be invested in a cemetery of your choice.
Contact us to discuss donation ideas.
Contact
To start exploring these options, contact us.