A stone table in a designed space in a cemetery used to display mementos, flowers, or other meaningful items for ceremonies.

The placement of human remains in a grave.

A cloth or sheet in which a body is wrapped for burial. For Green Burial, a shroud is made of natural fibre, either plain or decorated in organic plant-based dyes.

A rigid container usually constructed of wood, metal or similar material, ornamented and lined with fabric, designed to hold human remains.

The disposition of human remains in a cemetery and includes the supply of goods incidental to the provision of such service but does not include the sale of lots.

A structure, building, an area in a structure or building that contains niches for the inurnment of cremated remains. Columbaria may be classified as Individual, Family, or Community based on the number of niches and how they are sold. Plural: Columbaria.

The reduction of human remains to bone fragments through the application of flame and intense heat; this may include the repositioning or movement of the bones during the process to ensure complete cremation. The bone fragments are processed into smaller pieces, manually or mechanically, after they are removed from the cremation chamber.

A space used, or intended to be used, specifically for the interment of cremated remains. Typically, cremation lots are smaller than casket lots.

A lot dug at extra depth at the time of the interment of the first casket to allow for the accommodation of a second interment at regular depth.

The arrangements, care and preparation of human remains for interment, cremation or other disposition and includes the supply of goods incidental to the arrangements, care and preparation but does not include the sale of lots.

A planned area in a cemetery used or intended to be used for the burial of a casket, shrouded body, or cremated remains. See also: Lot.

A more environmentally conscious alternative to traditional burial. See www.greenburialcanada.ca. Typically, green burial involves:

• no embalming;
• burial directly in the ground without a grave liner or vault;
• a fully biodegradable casket or shroud;
• interment sites planted with indigenous ground cover; and
• no individual grave markers.

A ritual involving burning aromatic substances for the purpose of prayer, meditation, or honouring ancestors/deities.

Disposition by:

• burial of human remains or cremated remains in a grave;
• entombment of human remains in a mausoleum, crypt; or
• inurnment of cremated remains in a columbarium niche.

A space used, or intended to be used, for the interment of human remains or cremated remains under a right of interment and includes a grave, crypt, niche or plot.

A structure or building that contains interior or exterior crypts designed for the entombment of human remains. Plural: MAUSOLEA.

A peaceful space designed to honour and remember loved ones, which could include: interment of remains, opportunities for memorialization, and space for ceremony.

The act of commemorating a deceased person, typically with a physical object or ceremony, including but not limited to a:

• marker, headstone, tombstone monument, plaque, tablet or plate on a lot;
• tablet inscription, lettering or ornamentation on a crypt or niche front; or
• tree, boulder, wall or other feature.

A specialized compartment within a columbarium designed to hold urns containing cremated remains.

A vessel for the interment of cremated remains. Typically, the cremated remains are commingled.

A shelf on a columbarium used to hold small commemorative or ritual objects such as candles or flowers.

The irreversible dispersal of cremated remains over land or water or commingling in a defined area in a cemetery.

An area within a cemetery, usually providing an attractive natural or ornamental setting, dedicated to the scattering of cremated remains.

The practice of reducing human remains through a controlled, organic process to produce a soil-like material called humus.