INNOVATIONS & FIRSTS:

MacKinnon and Bowes was the first Toronto Service Agency to:

• Provide provincially licensed funeral service personnel.

MacKinnon and Bowes was the first Canadian Service Agency to:

• Provide an embalming facility not located in a funeral home.
• Establish a Canadian Wide Network for shipping of deceased persons.
• Offer a specialized telephone answering service for funeral homes.
• Furnish International Shipping Information and Assistance.
• Repatriate from Florida and throughout the United States.
• Recover human remains for Insurance Assistance and Travel Claim.
• Accept VISA Credit Card Payments.

RECOGNIZED LEADER IN:

• Shipping & Repatriation Services
• Specialized handling and embalming for persons that dies of infectious or communicable diseases.
• Disaster preparedness & planning in Canada.
• Exhumations and disinterment.