About & method
FinalFare is a price-transparency index for Canadian funerals. We do two things, and only two things: list every funeral provider we can verify from an official source, and publish the prices those providers publish themselves — transcribed exactly, with the source named and dated.
The rules
- Listings come from registers first. Where a province publishes an official register of licensed funeral providers, that register is the list. Where it does not, we compile the provincial association directory and cross-check it against national directories, and we say so.
- Prices are transcribed, never estimated. If a home publishes a price list, we transcribe its figures exactly. If it does not, the home is listed with no price and a note that follows that province's actual disclosure rule. We do not average, infer or buy price data.
- Ranking is never for sale. Town pages order prices by the figures themselves. One clearly labelled Featured card may appear at the top of a town's provider list; it is marked as paid placement, and it never changes a price, a chart or a ranking.
- Photos follow the same rule. We use no stock photography. Charts are generated from the dataset; a building photo appears only on a claimed profile, supplied by the home itself.
Sources by province
| Province | Listing source |
|---|---|
| Ontario | the Bereavement Authority of Ontario's public register |
| British Columbia | the BC Funeral Association member directory, cross-checked against the Canadian Funerals Online and Echovita directories |
| Alberta | the Alberta Funeral Service Association provider directory, cross-checked against the Canadian Funerals Online and Echovita directories |
| Saskatchewan | the Funeral and Cremation Services Council of Saskatchewan's official Roster |
| Manitoba | the Funeral Board of Manitoba's official list of licenced funeral homes |
| Nova Scotia | the Nova Scotia Open Data registry of licensed funeral homes |
| New Brunswick | the New Brunswick Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association directory, cross-checked against the Canadian Funerals Online and Echovita directories |
| Prince Edward Island | the Canadian Funerals Online and Echovita directories, cross-checked against each other |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | the official list of licensed funeral homes published in the Newfoundland and Labrador Gazette under the Embalmers and Funeral Directors Act, 2008 |
| Yukon | the Echovita directory, cross-checked against the home's own website |
| Northwest Territories | the YellowPages and Ever Loved directories, cross-checked against the home's own website |
| Québec | Registre des permis d’entreprises de services funéraires de Santé Québec — harvested; detailed French pages are phase 2 (see below) |
Known gaps, stated plainly
- Québec: the provincial permit register (219 locations) is harvested and stored, and a French provincial hub is live at /quebec/. Full French town and provider pages are a phase-2 build — we will not ship machine-garbled French.
- Nunavut: no resident funeral home appears in any public source we checked (the territory's families are typically served by homes in the Northwest Territories and the south). We list nothing rather than invent coverage.
- Prices: only a minority of Canadian homes publish a price list online. Every other home is an honest no-price listing; the outreach program described on the homepage asks those homes for their lists and adds them as they are published or provided.
- Saskatchewan's register lists names and towns without street addresses, so Saskatchewan pages show the town only. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island publish no public register we could use; their listings are directory-compiled and marked as such.
Corrections
Every price names its source list and effective date. If a home's list has changed — or a listing is wrong — the figure is corrected or removed when we are notified, and the correction is verified against the home's own published documents. Listings are never removed or degraded for commercial reasons.