Our work with the BC Coroner Service
Being an independent licensed mortuary facility that does not serve the public, we offer sheltering of human remains and toxicology services to the BC Coroner Service. This helps ensure that individuals in our region are given proper care during the time they are under the custody of the BC Coroner Service and until the person with the right to control the disposition of human remains has contracted a funeral home to authorize transport out of our facility.
We also provide this service so that families have time to organize themselves and find the funeral home most appropriate for them to use. Families are not charged anything while an individual is in our facility under the custody of the BC Coroner Service.
We also provide this service so that families have time to organize themselves and find the funeral home most appropriate for them to use. Families are not charged anything while an individual is in our facility under the custody of the BC Coroner Service.
Because of privacy laws, we are unable to provide you any information about a person being sheltered at our facility. The executor or legal next of kin will need to contact the BC Coroner Service office to be provided information. The next step after that should be to contact a funeral home to look after the burial or cremation. Part of the funeral home documents will include an authorization to transport the person out of whatever BC Coroner Services Facility they are currently in. There are several locations used by the BC Coroner Service for their investigation and people do get moved from site to site.
BC Coroner Service Contact Information
Lower Mainland Region
Address: Metrotower II Suite 800 - 4720 Kingsway / Burnaby, BC V5H 4N2
Phone: 604 660-7708 / Fax: 250 953-0472
Email: BCCS.LMRegion@gov.bc.ca
Address: Metrotower II Suite 800 - 4720 Kingsway / Burnaby, BC V5H 4N2
Phone: 604 660-7708 / Fax: 250 953-0472
Email: BCCS.LMRegion@gov.bc.ca
Drug Investigation Team
Address: Metrotower II Suite 800 - 4720 Kingsway / Burnaby, BC V5H 4N2
Phone: 236 468-3207/ Fax: 604 398-4766 Email: BCCS.DIT@gov.bc.ca
Address: Metrotower II Suite 800 - 4720 Kingsway / Burnaby, BC V5H 4N2
Phone: 236 468-3207/ Fax: 604 398-4766 Email: BCCS.DIT@gov.bc.ca
Vancouver Island/Sunshine Coast Region
Address: 5th Floor, 910 Government St. / Victoria, BC V8W 1X3
Mailing Address: PO Box 9272, Stn Prov Govt / Victoria, BC V8W 9J5
Phone: 250 356-9133 or toll free 1 877 741-3707 / Fax: 250 356-9289 or toll free 1 866 229-2226
Email: sgbccsislandregion@gov.bc.ca
Address: 5th Floor, 910 Government St. / Victoria, BC V8W 1X3
Mailing Address: PO Box 9272, Stn Prov Govt / Victoria, BC V8W 9J5
Phone: 250 356-9133 or toll free 1 877 741-3707 / Fax: 250 356-9289 or toll free 1 866 229-2226
Email: sgbccsislandregion@gov.bc.ca
Interior/Northern Region
Northern Office:
Plaza 400 - 4th Floor - Room 440
1011 - 4th Avenue / Prince George, BC V2L 3H9
Phone: 250 861-7429 or toll free 1 888 991-2111
Fax: 250 565-6606
Email: BCCSNorthernregion@gov.bc.ca
Interior Office:
103 - 1420 St. Paul St. / Kelowna, BC V1Y 2E6
Phone: 250 861-7429 or toll free 1 888 991-2111
Fax: 250 861-7515 or toll free 1 866 377-7515
Email: BCCSInteriorRegion@gov.bc.ca
Northern Office:
Plaza 400 - 4th Floor - Room 440
1011 - 4th Avenue / Prince George, BC V2L 3H9
Phone: 250 861-7429 or toll free 1 888 991-2111
Fax: 250 565-6606
Email: BCCSNorthernregion@gov.bc.ca
Interior Office:
103 - 1420 St. Paul St. / Kelowna, BC V1Y 2E6
Phone: 250 861-7429 or toll free 1 888 991-2111
Fax: 250 861-7515 or toll free 1 866 377-7515
Email: BCCSInteriorRegion@gov.bc.ca