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The Valemount Cemetery is located near the center of town on 4th Avenue, between the local fire hall and Centennial Park.

Interment options include traditional burials for both full-casket and cremated remains.  In 2025, a columbarium with 80 niches for interment of cremated remains was installed at the Valemount Cemetery. Each niche can be used for a single interment, or a companion (double) interment. For community members who choose not to inter their loved one’s ashes in a columbarium niche, but still want a place to visit and remember, there is a memorial wall located at the Cemetery where the public may place plaques.

For assistance with any questions regarding plot reservations, interments, the Columbarium, or the Memorial Wall, please contact the Village Office at 250-566-4435, and Village staff will be pleased to help.

Plot Reservations /

Interments / Columbarium

250.566.4435

Carleena Shepherd, Corporate Officer, corporate@valemount.ca

Rundi Anderson, Corporate Services Clerk, csc@valemount.ca

Memorial Wall

250.566.4435

Jennifer Scheller or Heather Westhaver, Administrative Services, adminservices@valemount.ca

 

Valemount Cemetery FAQs
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Cemetery Maintenance

  • Cemetery grounds are maintained by the municipality.
  • The Village kindly asks that family members be responsible for the maintenance or repair of memorial markers, floral tributes or other mementos.

 

Payment Options

 

 

Information and forms:

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Internments

Overview

  • Interments are to be scheduled from Monday to Friday, between 9AM and 3PM. Those scheduled after hours or on weekends or holidays are subject to additional fees.
  • A burial plot will accommodate 2 full burials (if the first is at sufficient depth), or 1 burial with up to three additional cremations.
  • A cremation plot will accommodate 2 inurnments (cremated remains).
  • A Certificate of Death, Burial/Cremation Disposition Permit, and all fees associated with an interment in the Cemetery are due prior to the interment taking place. 

Plot Reservation Form

Cemetery/Columbarium License Application Form–PLEASE NOTE: The license application is posted for information only. To arrange an interment in the Valemount Cemetery, please visit the Village Office to discuss the process with the Corporate Services Clerk. We are available to answer your questions and guide you through the next steps.

Memorial Markers

Overview

  • Up to two memorial tablets will be permitted on each cremation grave space; the second tablet will be installed at the discretion of the Public Works Superintendent, as space permits.
  • Notwithstanding the above, a cremation grave space containing an existing upright memorial will not be permitted a second memorial marker.
  • Up to three memorial markers will be permitted on each full burial grave space, with only one upright memorial permitted per space; the upright memorial will only be permitted if it is the first to be placed on the grave space.
  • All markers to be placed in the Cemetery will comply with Village of Valemount Cemetery Bylaw No. 685, 2012, as amended.
  • Fees will be administered for the placement and removal of memorial markers in the cemetery; the village is not responsible for the disposal of memorial markers.

Marker Permit Application

Memorial Wall

Overview

  • A memorial plaque may be purchased through and installed by the Village on the memorial wall located at the Valemount Cemetery.
  • All memorial plaques to be placed in the Cemetery will comply with Village of Valemount Cemetery Bylaw No. 685, 2012, as amended.

To arrange for the placement of a memorial wall plaque in the Valemount Cemetery, please contact the Administrative Services Clerk above.

Memorial Plaque Form

Columbarium

Overview

  • As well as cremation plots for inurnments (burial), Valemount Cemetery has a columbarium–a vault with niches for urns that contain ashes of cremated bodies.
  • The Valemount Cemetery Columbarium has 80 niches for interment of cremated remains.
  • Each niche can be used for a single interment, or a companion (double) interment.
  • A columbarium niche may be purchased through and installed by the Village .
  • All columbarium niche installments will comply with Village of Valemount Cemetery Bylaw No. 685, 2012, as amended.
  • A Certificate of Death, Burial/Cremation Disposition Permit, and all fees associated with an interment in the Cemetery are due prior to the interment taking place.

Cemetery/Columbarium License Application Form–PLEASE NOTE: The license application is posted for information only. To make cemetery arrangements, please visit the Village Office to discuss the process with the Corporate Services Clerk. We are available to answer your questions and guide you through the next steps.