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
By Phone:
For initial reports of new deaths, please call 1 855 207-0637 or 250 561-8488.
The following numbers are staffed during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday):
1-866-200-2676 (Toll free from within Canada and the U.S.) 778 309-9685 (From outside North America)
For initial reports of new deaths, please call 1 855 207-0637 or 250 561-8488.
The following numbers are staffed during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday):
1-866-200-2676 (Toll free from within Canada and the U.S.) 778 309-9685 (From outside North America)
For family members and close contacts who require assistance from the Coroners Service you need to send their office an email.
Email: BCCSConnect@gov.bc.ca
Email: BCCSConnect@gov.bc.ca
By Mail:
Office of the Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, Chief Coroner
Address: PO Box 9259, Stn Prov Govt / Victoria, BC V8W 9J4
Fax: 250 953-0472
Email: ChiefCoronerCorrespondence@gov.bc.ca
To respond to recommendations from a Coroner’s Report or Verdict at Inquest, or bring a matter to the attention of the Chief Coroner, please email.
Office of the Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, Chief Coroner
Address: PO Box 9259, Stn Prov Govt / Victoria, BC V8W 9J4
Fax: 250 953-0472
Email: ChiefCoronerCorrespondence@gov.bc.ca
To respond to recommendations from a Coroner’s Report or Verdict at Inquest, or bring a matter to the attention of the Chief Coroner, please email.
Media Contact
Ryan Panton, Manager of Strategic Communications and Media Relations
Email: CoronerMedia@gov.bc.ca
Phone: 236 478-1582 during regular business hours.
Ryan Panton, Manager of Strategic Communications and Media Relations
Email: CoronerMedia@gov.bc.ca
Phone: 236 478-1582 during regular business hours.