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Our Heritage
Heritage Gardens is a family affair, Tom believes a sustainable cemetery
brought about by father and son founders, means making it as much a place for the
Tom and Trevor Crean. Trevor’s mother living as for the dead. By integrating
does the books, his brother maintains cemeteries into the community, through
the grounds, and his sister does design bereavement resources, education and
and social media. The Crean’s business initiatives - cemeteries can serve the
partners are another father and son duo, generations today, as well as those ahead.
Francis and Andrew Wong. Services are
managed by Debbie Sproule. Trevor Crean, General Manager
Tom’s son, Trevor, also grew up in
Tom Crean, Founder the business. He went from washing
Thomas Crean grew up in the burial the vehicles and helping with services
business, starting as a teenaged janitor while still in high school to graduating
at the family’s Kearney Funeral Services, co-valedictorian of his class from the
Vancouver’s oldest family-run funeral Canadian College of Funeral Service in
home. In 1978, after the sudden death 2008. A licensed funeral director, Trevor
of his uncle, and the banks’ refusal to has helped more than 1,000 families
grant a business loan to his mother, navigate a time of grief and loss.
Tom became president of the company
at the tender age of 22. Since then, In Trevor’s eyes, a sustainable cemetery
throughout his exemplary career, Tom looks to steward our environment,
has fought against the consolidation of facilitating both ecological and human
his profession by the big conglomerates, well-being.
pushed for proper regulation, lobbied the
government to ban predatory telephone
and door-to-door solicitation, and led
the successful fight against privatization
of Vancouver’s only publicly-owned
cemetery. He served more than
two decades on the BC Freedom of
Information and Privacy Association
Board, advocating for government and
corporate accountability.
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