Leadership

INNOVATIONS & FIRSTS:

MacKinnon and Bowes was the first Toronto Service Agency to:

Provide provincially licensed funeral service personnel and dedicated assistance to funeral professionals across the GTA.

MacKinnon and Bowes was the first Canadian Service Agency to:

Provide an embalming facility that was not located in a funeral home.
Establish a Canadian Wide Network for the shipment of deceased persons.
Offer a specialized telephone answering system for funeral homes.
Furnish international shipping information and assistance to funeral professionals.
Repatriate human remains from Florida and across the United States.
Recover human remains for insurance assistance and travel claims.

We are now recognized leaders in:

Shipping and repatriation services.
The specialized handling and embalming of persons who have died due to infectious or communicable diseases.
Disaster preparedness and planning across Canada.
Exhumations and disinterments across the world.