Over the past few months two funeral directors named Brett Denning and Colin Haskett created a new online forum for obituaries. This new forum is called Canada Obits and just like the Ridgetown Independent and the Blenheim News Tribune, obituaries are included free of charge. The following information is from Brett and Colin…
“CanadaObits.ca is the easy online obituary directory. Over the last number of years, funeral professionals have seen the traditional means of advertising an obituary dramatically increase in price. Although funeral homes have provided helpful websites for years, unless you spend hours searching each individual funeral home website in your area, you are bound to miss the obituary of someone you care about. It is our goal that one day, each person who passes away in Canada will have their obituary placed on this national register completely FREE. Through a simple search of a name and place of residence, you can find all of the information pertinent to the obituary. To keep up to date you can sign up for daily emails sent to you with all of the obituaries posted in the Chatham/Kent or any other area in Ontario that is of interest to you. Other options include following postings through Facebook (search CanadaObits) or on Twitter (@CanObitsChathamKent). CanadaObits.ca is a very localized yet broad tool with the intention of saving grieving families hundreds, if not thousands of dollars associated with the cost of advertising a loved one’s passing. In the same way a family would place a newspaper obituary in the local Blenheim and Ridgetown papers, they may want to place it in the Chatham Daily News, theWindsor Star or the Globe and Mail. The obituaries on CanadaObits.ca can be included in up to 50 different geographical regions in Ontario alone. This allows people to reach the loved ones and friends they intend to, for free. We invite you to make use of this service through one of the 150 funeral homes currently taking advantage for the families they serve.”
