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Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home in Vancouver, British Columbia, has provided funeral and cremation services to Vancouver and surrounding areas for almost 100 years. Throughout this time, it has been our ongoing commitment to assist families during their time of need, providing professional and compassionate guidance, care and funeral services. We understand losing a loved one is an emotional and difficult experience, and our services are designed to help families through this stage of life.

Celebrating life

Sitting area at Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home features a chapel with pew seating, stained-glass windows and a piano for large services, as well as a more intimate space with comfortable leather sofas for a family viewing or a small service. A reception area allows for catered gatherings before or after a service. The funeral home interior was refreshed in 2019.

Our staff believes each service should reflect the life of the person being honoured, so we help families create memorials that not only celebrates life but also provide comfort. For your convenience, our funeral home is also associated with many cemeteries in the Vancouver area, including Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Ocean View Burial Park.

Specializing in Chinese Funerals

Mount Pleasant Universal welcomes and respects families from all cultures. Our compassionate team is well-versed in a wide range of funeral traditions and rituals and speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese. We perform many Protestant and Catholic funerals, but Asian funeral traditions are our specialty. We take pride in understanding various Chinese funeral customs and have a depth of resources to draw from when needed. Our funeral chapel is the only one in the area that accommodates the traditional Chinese Taoist practice of burning of joss paper.

Community involvement

We are proud to be the oldest original funeral home in the Vancouver metropolitan area. We are members of the British Columbia Funeral Association as well as the Funeral Service Association of Canada and the Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area. Our associates also support community groups, including the Hellenic Community of Vancouver and the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia.

Contact us

If you would like more information about our funeral services and memorialization options or would like to take a tour of our facility, please contact us directly. We look forward to the honour of serving you.

History

Chapel with down the aisle view at Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home. Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home opened in 1914 and has served families in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area at its current location since 1927. The funeral home has remained virtually unchanged, with some slight renovations in 1950, 1985, 1998 and 2019, during which the furniture and fixtures were replaced or refinished. The building's exterior is Spanish style with a metal-tiled roof, beautiful brick and stucco construction with vinyl siding.

Committed to the Vancouver area

We are proud to be the oldest original funeral home in the Vancouver metropolitan area. Over the years, our funeral home has combined with Nunn & Thomson Funeral Home and Simmons & McBride Funeral Home, both of which closed several years ago. Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home is now a proud member of the Dignity Memorial® network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers.

With a strong reputation in the Vancouver area, Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home looks forward to continuing our legacy of care and commitment.

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Amenities

Location

Flexible event space
Facility is available to host your personal events
Large capacity chapel
Celebration of life centre
Facility is designed for personalized funeral celebrations
Recently renovated
Flexible chapel space
Our chapel can be used for hosting your religious events
Multiple chapels
Piano/organ on site
Family Estates

Family Estates are a distinguished tribute to a family legacy. They can be customized with stained glass, benches and landscaping
Coffee lounge
Pet-friendly

Cremation

Cremation remembrance jewelry
Cremation viewing suite
Option for home delivery of ashes
Option for mail delivery of ashes
Sent through postal mail service, signature required. Expect delays in Canada due to Covid-19 restrictions on mail requiring a signature.
Scattering assistance

Service

Catered events
White glove service
Locations offering the highest level of service and care
Outdoor celebrations
Options to have your personalized celebrations on outdoors on our property
Arrangements by phone and email
complete funeral planning without needing a funeral home visit
Tribute video production
Services available to create a tribute video for the service or obituary from photos and videos.
Audio and video equipment
Live music available
Popular music selections
Intimate reception area
Meeting space
space available for corporate and organization meetings
Cemetery flower delivery

Religious & Cultural

Multicultural funerals
Incense burning

Other Languages Spoken

Chinese

Other

100% Service Guarantee
Cantonese
Mandarin

How may we help you?

Plan Ahead

A death has occurred or is near

Plan a Simple Cremation

Simple can still mean exceptional. Let us show you how.

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Express your sympathy with flowers & gifts

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Remember the one you love

Honor the memory of your loved one with cemetery flower placement. You choose the flowers. You choose the months. We do the rest.

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Express your sympathy with flowers & gifts

View arrangements

Remember the one you love

Honour the memory of your loved one with cemetery flower placement. You choose the flowers. You choose the months. We do the rest.

Learn more

Express your sympathy with flowers & gifts

View arrangements

Unable to find an obituary?

Not finding what you are looking for? Search for your loved one's obituary across any of our other locations.

Express your sympathy with flowers & gifts

View arrangements

Ratings & Reviews

4.5

415 Ratings

Staff

4.6

Arrangement

4.6

Cleanliness

4.4

Visitation & Service

4.6

68%

22%

4.5

415 Ratings

Staff

4.6

Arrangement

4.6

Cleanliness

4.4

Visitation & Service

4.6

68%

22%

Verified Customer Reviews

Since 2005, many of our customers have taken the time to tell us how we did each year via our Voice of the Customer program. Our star ratings and comments from families come directly from these surveys.

"Very professional, understanding and caring service provided by Tony Hicks Outstanding level of service!"

jd-power-verified-checkmark Verified Cremation Customer

September 2021

"Gillian, Johnny and the Mount Pleasant Universal Funeral Home staff are very professional, compassionate, diligent and knowledgeable. Their responses were quick and clear. They have gone above and beyond in helping families making the final arrangement for their loved ones during the most trying time. We are very grateful for their excellent service."

jd-power-verified-checkmark Verified Cremation & Memorial Service Customer

August 2021

"I'm so appreciative for the compassionate and professional care we received from Mount Pleasant funeral services with my dads arrangements. During such a sad time it's beautiful to have someone take care of all the arrangements quietly and perfectly while you're grieving. It's such a relief to know things are taken care of freeing you to focus on your family and friends"

jd-power-verified-checkmark Verified Burial & Memorial Service Customer

August 2021

"Tony was warm and professional, very easy to talk with and obviously very knowledgeable. We enjoyed working with him a great deal. He made the overall experience as comfortable as possible."

jd-power-verified-checkmark Verified Cremation Customer

July 2021