Ordering a Chinese headstone means making a run of decisions that most families only make once. What the cemetery allows. Which characters to use. What happens when one spouse is still living. This guide walks through those decisions in the…
Walk through an old Ontario cemetery and you can see how headstone materials age. Some old stones still read cleanly. Others have gone blank. Material is one reason for the difference. This page is about how each material behaves over…
What are the best cemeteries in the GTA? We compared 27 cemeteries on published prices, public registers and measured data. Seven form our top tier, listed alphabetically: Assumption Catholic Cemetery, Mississauga Elgin Mills Cemetery, Richmond Hill Glen Oaks Funeral Home…
When people ask about headstone types, they usually mean the shape of the stone: the top edge, the overall silhouette, the carved figures and the marker format. This guide walks through the main shapes we design and engrave, with real…
Granite headstones come in far more colours than most families expect. The colour you choose shapes the look of the memorial, how engraving and artwork read on the stone, and the price. As a rule of thumb: light grey is…
Monument engraving methods differ in how deep the cut goes and how much detail they show. How you put a name, a face, or a piece of art onto stone shapes the whole memorial. It changes how the stone looks.…
What to write on a headstone is a choice you make once, because letters cut into stone stay there for good. The most meaningful headstone inscriptions are short, personal, and true to who your loved one was, a name, the…
