After Cemetery Strike, Grieving Montreal Families Still Waiting to Bury Loved Ones

After Cemetery Strike, Grieving Montreal Families Still Waiting to Bury Loved Ones
Overgrown foliage and fallen branches surround gravestones at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery in Montreal, on July 9, 2023. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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For more than a year, an urn holding the ashes of Bridget Heffernan’s brother has remained in her Montreal-area home instead of being buried in the plot at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery where her family members have been laid to rest for nearly a century.

With her mother’s death last September, Ms. Heffernan now has two sets of remains to bury instead of one.