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Cariboo Community Natural Burial Association

  • HOME
  • An Overview
  • The Vision
  • Download the Brochure
  • About Us
  • News + Events
  • Sign Up
  • Membership
  • Land Acknowledgement
  • CNBS Blog
  • Social Media
  • Facebook
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    • HOME
    • An Overview
    • The Vision
    • Download the Brochure
    • About Us
    • News + Events
    • Sign Up
    • Membership
    • Land Acknowledgement
    • CNBS Blog
    • Social Media
    • Facebook
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  • HOME
  • An Overview
  • The Vision
  • Download the Brochure
  • About Us
  • News + Events
  • Sign Up
  • Membership
  • Land Acknowledgement
  • CNBS Blog
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    • Cariboo Natural Burial Sanctuary

      A secular and sacred place to come together and remember our beloved dead

    • What we envision ~ an overview

      We are working to establish a Natural Burial Sanctuary in BC’s Cariboo Region

      For Green Burials and Cremated Remains.

      larkspur conservation burial ground

      Natural Burial

      Land Conservation with Natural Burial

      In a beautiful forested setting, there will be natural burial areas with paths, trails, and benches for meditative walks. Individual gravesites are marked with local stones and GPS. There will be picnic areas, an outdoor labyrinth, and our own design for a "Little Spirits Garden to mark the loss of a pregnancy or infant." The idea of the Little Spirits Garden is thanks to the folks at Royal Oak Burial Park in Victoria, BC. Our Sanctuary will welcome all beliefs, traditions, and religions and we do not intend to have restrictions or additional costs for those who live outside the Cariboo.  

      One of the beautiful Stone Barrows built by Sacred Stones in the UK.  A huge inspiration for us.

      Tumulus * Barrow * Ossuary

      A beautiful and protected resting place for cremated ashes

      A structure built on the property that will house ashes in urns. Each urn will be contained in a niche within a natural stone and wood structure creating a sacred space for the safekeeping of your loved one's ashes. A place of ceremony and remembrance. Our inspiration for the Ossuary draws heavily on the Stone Barrows that are popping up around the UK. It would be marvelous to be able to raise the funds to hire these folks to come over here and build a Stone Barrow for us. We can dream. We are researching the costs of a build using stone, wood, or cob.

      Simple cottage style building for family gatherings

      A Gathering Place

      For ceremony, celebration and community gatherings

      An eco-friendly, sustainable building designed to host memorials, celebrations, and small gatherings with an office, kitchen, and washroom facilities. We envision this building to have small classrooms for workshops and community events ensuring the sanctuary becomes a place where individuals and families are supported through the planning process and the celebration of the lives of their loved ones. Initially, we want to provide a simple cottage style building for family gatherings.

      Mariah's beloved Leo being prepared for cremation

      A Green Cemetery area for companion animals

      Pet Sanctuary

      An area of the sanctuary will be set aside for natural burials of companion animals and for the keeping of pets cremated remains. We would like to include pet burials within their human's burial site but this is not currently legal in BC cemeteries. We are working to change that.

      Where exactly is the Cariboo?

      The Cariboo is a very large region in the Central Interior of British Columbia. The blue marker on this Google map roughly shows the area where we are working to establish our Natural Burial Sanctuary. It's about half way between Vancouver and Prince George.

    • The Vision

      Watch a short video that describes the Vision and Inspiration

      for our Natural Burial Sanctuary

    • Download the Brochure

      Download our brochure and share it with family and friends

      Print a few and share with your neighbours.

      Sanctuary Brochure Download
    • Who We Are

      We're on a mission to create a natural and sustainable green burial sanctuary

      with a focus on the bereaved and the environment. We are an incorporated nonprofit based in Williams Lake, British Columbia with an eight-member Board of Directors.

      Cariboo Community Natural Burial Association

       

      Barb Brown, Canim Lake

      Laura Dean, 150 Mile House

      Nicola Finch, Chilcotin Plateau

      David Finch, Chilcotin Plateau

      Angela Gutzer, Williams Lake

      Teresa Jones, Quesnel

      Penny McIntosh, Williams Lake

      Dave Prentice, Williams Lake

      Photos and Bio's coming

       

      We invite you to join us in growing our network and in our quest for land and resources to accomplish our vision of green burial in the Cariboo Region.

    • Recent Events 

      Nicola Finch shared her passion for Natural Burial and how we’re doing in British Columbia.

      "Natural Burial makes sense to me. The earth feeds and nourishes us. In the end, our bodies are what we can give back to feed and nourish the earth. Dying green. It’s kinder to the environment and a gentler process for families and loved ones. It’s so simple, and I believe that there ought to be a natural burial option for every community in BC."

      This Free event was hosted in September 2020 by the Death Doula Network BC, Jo-Anne Haun & Karen Hendrickson. Here is the recording of the presentation, thanks to www.ddnbc.com  

      On October 17th, Nicola Finch hosted an online Burial Shroud Workshop as part of the National Swan Song Festival. She shared her own burial shroud and how she is personalizing it, the embellishments she has already done, and her ideas on what else she wants to do with her shroud and why. This was an online workshop in participation with the 2020 Swan Song Festival (Community Deathcare Canada) 

      Lead Host: Nicola Finch. nicola@deathtalk.ca

      The YouTube link to the full Shroud Workshop recording can be found here.

    • Sign Up

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    • Thank you for supporting our work.

      Cariboo Community Natural Burial Association( In partnership with Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network )All payments are processed securely through PayPal Please note that we cannot issue tax receipts for donations. We are a registered non-profit society in BC but do not yet have charitable status. Showing a strong base of support will aid us in applications for funding and when we apply for charitable status. Thank You.

      Donate to Cariboo Community Natural Burial Association

      Donate to Cariboo Community Natural Burial Association

      10.00 - 100.00
      Thank you so much for your donation to support Cariboo Community Natural Burial Association as we work to establish the Cariboo Natural Burial Sanctuary. You'll be added to our mailing list for newsletters and updates and we encourage you to stay in touch by following us on Facebook and visiting our website https://www.cariboonaturalburialsanctuary.ca
      Your notification will mention Cariboo Community Deathcaring Network however your support here goes directly to Cariboo Natural Burial Association.
      Thank you so much.
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      Annual Membership CCNB Association

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      Annual Voting Membership in Cariboo Community Natural Burial Association. Your Membership begins on the date purchased and renewed (we hope) the following year on the same date. Thank you So much for your support.
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    • Land Acknowledgement

      Cariboo Natural Burial Sanctuary acknowledges with gratitude and respect that we live on the lands of the Tŝilhqot’in Nation. We honour the Tŝilhqot’in people past and present, their culture and customs, and their Aboriginal Rights and Title to the land.

      Tsilhqot'in National Government

    • CNBS Blog

      Thoughts, musings, information and resources

      Cariboo Natural Burial Sanctuary We're fundraising to print brochures
      Fundraising
      Cariboo Community Natural Burial Association is a BC not for profit formed to establish a Green...
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      Reclaiming Death as an Honoured Part of Life
      Written by Nicola Finch and originally published in the Summer 2020 issue of The Green Gazette. ...
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      The Vision for a Natural Burial Sanctuary in the Cariboo
      Natural Burials
      Published in The Green Gazette March 3, 2020 By Nicola Finch, Cariboo Community Natural Burial...
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