For excellent service and reasonable rates for your shipment or cremation requirements you simply call our Toll Free Service Line at any hour of the day or night. We in turn contact our shipping representative in the area where the death occurred and provide the necessary information regarding your case. Services are initiated on your behalf and are thoroughly coordinated from start to finish by MacKinnon & Bowes. You can be sure that your case will receive the attention that has become the trademark of our Toronto location.

Price quotation in Canadian Dollars for shipments or cremations from any area of
Canada or the United States provided upon request.

Recently we represented shipments on your behalf to: Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England, France Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Turkey and Yugoslavia.

Mackinnon & Bowes Ltd, over the years, has established the Mackinnon & Bowes expertise in Funeral Service for shipments to Foreign Countries all over the world. The multi-cultural aspect of Canada's population makes it necessary for responsive Funeral Directors to be capable of facilitating shipments to "Homelands" across the globe. With this thought in mind, MacKinnon & Bowes has compiled an extensive resource centre of information and supplies to assist you with your shipment. From coast to coast in Canada, Funeral Directors have been able to call upon MacKinnon & Bowes ability to enhance their traditional service work by assisting with International Shipments. They have realized that they are only a phone call away from addressing their families’ needs to forward remains overseas for Funeral or Interment. Consulate representation of Foreign Countries in the Toronto area makes it easy for Canadian Funeral Directors to rely on MacKinnon & Bowes to obtain the appropriate authorization for their shipment abroad.

MacKinnon & Bowes can secure the necessary documentation, provide the required sealers and containers, and make forwarding arrangements directly to the destination on your behalf regardless of where the death may occur in Canada.

Our ever mobile society makes it necessary to be able to repatriate remains from Foreign Countries all over the world. More and more, we at MacKinnon & Bowes have been asked to provide assistance for the return of a remains from abroad. When death occurs outside Canada or the U.S., there are a multitude of considerations. Language barriers, local customs, currency exchange, availability of services and merchandise as we know them, all present an element of difficulty. MacKinnon & Bowes has made great strides to address these difficulties. The death of vacation travelers, business travelers, or Canadian citizens residing in other countries present a challenge that MacKinnon & Bowes is prepared to assist you with. Connections have been established over the years in order that assistance can be provided in many areas through organizations that are familiar to MacKinnon & Bowes. We invite you to take advantage of our "International Assistance" if ever the need should arise.

Documentation for Consulate Approval

Trade Embalming

Repatriation of Remains of Cremains

Transfer Services

Funeral Car Rentals