Le repos Saint-François d’Assise

What Le repos Saint-François d’Assise does

Le repos Saint-François d'Assise is a registered Canadian charitable organization (organisme de bienfaisance, charity number 12595 6441 RR0001) that has operated a large cemetery and funeral services complex in Greater Montreal since 1916, making it one of the longest-established and largest cemeteries in Quebec. The organization serves bereaved families and individuals planning ahead in the Montreal / Quebec market from its headquarters at 6893 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal, with the site open to visitors 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Its only named management contact in the data is Mr. Aboubacar Biro Diallo, Assistant to the Director General and Privacy Officer. The organization also retains Cimetière Saint-Enfant-Jésus as an acquired subsidiary brand, indicating prior inorganic consolidation within the regional cemetery market.

The core offering is a portfolio of interment and commemoration products and services sold on a one-time basis: traditional in-ground burial lots (with optional pre-installed monuments), indoor and outdoor columbarium niches, mausoleum crypts (single, paired, or family chapel), cremation services with on-site crematorium, granite monuments, funeral urns, an ecological Espace Nature burial area, an urn-based Jardin cinéraire, concession contract extensions, and complete funeral services at the Pavillon commématif Ville-Marie. In 2023 the organization inaugurated L'Espoir | La Speranza, a new community mausoleum-columbarium, evidencing ongoing capital investment in above-ground interment supply. The portfolio is increasingly sold as packaged 'forfaits' (columbarium, mausoleum, family plot, Espace Nature, Urn Garden bundles) supported by a 2026 pricing brochure, up to 60 months interest-free financing, and a 5% early-payment discount. Supporting channels include a bilingual French/English website with an online deceased search tool, an educational blog on funeral planning, the Infodeuil.ca bereavement portal, press releases, and the 'Un après-midi au Jardin' concert series for community engagement.

The business model is a transactional, consumer-facing cemetery operator with sales-led, advisor-driven go-to-market (in-person consultations plus 24/7 immediate-need availability) layered with event-driven community outreach (concerts, blog content, direct bereaved-family outreach). Pre-funeral arrangements form a forward sales channel that converts future demand into present-day revenue and concession contracts. As a registered charity rather than an investor-owned entity, the organization has no disclosed funding rounds, no venture or private-equity backing, no headcount figure, and no publicly disclosed revenue; the structure is non-profit and governed internally rather than by external shareholders.

Name

Le repos Saint-François d’Assise

Legal name

Le repos Saint-François d'Assise

Website

https://rsfa.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1916

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Le repos Saint-François d'Assise is a charitable, 100+ year-old Montreal cemetery and funeral services provider offering burial plots, mausoleums, columbariums, cremation, monuments, ecological interment options, and pre-arrangements to bereaved families and individuals planning ahead in Greater Montreal and Quebec.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cemetery and Funeral Services

NAICS

Cemeteries and Crematories (812220), Cemeteries and Crematories (81222), Funeral Homes and Funeral Services (812210), Funeral Homes and Funeral Services (81221), Death Care Services (8122)

akta.pro primary industry

Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

Keywords

• Funeral services
• Cemetery operations
• Cremation services
• Columbarium niches
• Burial plots

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Burial Services: Sale of burial plots, lots, crypts in mausoleums, and traditional in-ground burials. Multiple plot sizes and types available.
2. Cremation Services: Cremation services followed by urn placement in columbariums, burial in plots, or other memorial options.
3. Columbarium Niches: Sale and rental of indoor and outdoor columbarium niches for urn placement.
4. Monuments and Memorials: Granite monuments in various styles, colors, and designs to commemorate the deceased.
5. Pre-funeral Arrangements: Advance planning services allowing individuals to arrange their own funerals or those of loved ones in advance.
6. Perpetuity Packages: Package deals combining multiple services for long-term memorial needs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Le repos Saint-François d'Assise is a cemetery and funeral services complex in Greater Montreal offering burial plots, mausoleum crypts, indoor and outdoor columbarium niches, on-site cremation, granite monuments and urns, ecological Espace Nature and Jardin cinéraire interment options, and advance funeral prearrangements. Services are delivered directly at the cemetery site, which is one of the largest in Quebec and has been in continuous operation since 1916.

Product overview

Le repos Saint-François d'Assise operates as a funeral services provider and cemetery complex offering a comprehensive portfolio of interment and commemoration products. The core offerings include burial infrastructure (crypts, mausoleums, columbariums, and traditional plots), memorial products (monuments, urns), and services (cremation, burials, pre-arrangements). The company organizes these into themed packages for columbariums, mausoleums, family plots, the ecological Espace Nature area, and the Urn Garden. Additional services include concession contract extensions, Ville-Marie Memorial Services, and an online deceased search tool. This is not a unified software platform but rather a portfolio of cemetery services and products organized by burial type and ceremony need.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• L'Espoir | La Speranza: A mausoleum-columbarium building inaugurated in 2023, offering hope for the future while honoring the deceased.
• Pavillon commemoratif Ville-Marie
• Infodeuil.ca

Products and services

• Crypts and Mausoleums (Cryptes et mausolées) Indoor burial options offering single, paired, or family chapel crypts within community mausoleums, as well as private family mausoleum construction planning, for bereaved families selecting above-ground interment.
• Columbariums Indoor and outdoor columbarium spaces with a wide selection of memorial niches for storing cremated remains.
• Burial Plots (Lots) Traditional in-ground burial plots available in various dimensions for traditional or cremated remains interment, with options for pre-installed monuments.
• Espace Nature (Nature Area) Natural burial area designed for ecological commemoration, offering an alternative environmentally-conscious burial option.
• Jardin cinéraire (Urn Garden) Cremation garden allowing ecological burial of a loved one within a flower bed using specially designed urns, with granite border commemoration options.
• Monuments Granite monuments available in various styles, shapes, and colors to immortalize the memory of a loved one, ranging from simple to elaborate designs.
• Funeral Urns (Urnes funéraires) Funeral urns designed for containing cremated remains, available in various styles and materials.
• Cremation Services (Crémation) On-site cremation services with various packages designed to meet different budgetary needs and ceremonial preferences.
• Burials (Inhumations et mises en terre) Traditional in-ground burial services for casket interment at the cemetery.
• Funeral Prearrangements (Préarrangements funéraires) Advance funeral planning services allowing individuals to plan their own or loved ones' funerals in advance, ensuring personal wishes are respected.
• Concession Contract Extension (Prolongation de contrat de concession) Service for extending burial plot concession contracts for continued use of plots.
• Ville-Marie Memorial Services (Services commémoratifs Ville-Marie) Complete funeral services offered at the Ville-Marie Memorial Pavilion, including various commemorative options.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Coopérative funéraire de l'Outaouais: Quebec-based cooperative offering funeral and cremation services across the Outaouais region. Comparable mission-aligned (nonprofit/cooperative) model and Quebec death-care service offering, though geographically focused outside Montreal.

Emerging players

• Crématorium Métropolitain de Montréal: Montreal-area cremation services provider. Specializes in the segment where Le repos Saint-François d'Assise is also expanding (cremation/columbarium niche), representing a more focused partially-overlapping competitor in the same metropolitan market.
• Foundation Partners Group: Privately-held funeral and cemetery services company with growing cemetery and cremation operations across the U.S. Comparable service portfolio including cremation, burial, and pre-arrangement, with overlapping middle-market positioning.

Direct peers

• Mount Royal Cemetery: Historic 19th-century cemetery in Montreal serving the Greater Montreal area with traditional burial, cremation, mausoleum, and pre-arrangement services. Closely comparable institutional cemetery peer in the same regional market.
• Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges: Montreal's largest Catholic cemetery and one of the largest in North America. Offers burial plots, crypts, columbariums, cremation services, and pre-arrangements — direct competitor in the same Greater Montreal market with overlapping product set.
• Centre Funéraire Côte-des-Neiges: Montreal-area funeral services and cemetery operator providing burial, cremation, and pre-arrangement services. A direct regional competitor in the Greater Montreal death-care market.

Broad incumbents

• StoneMor Partners: North American owner and operator of cemeteries and funeral homes. Directly comparable business model of cemetery operations including burial plots, mausoleums, columbariums, and pre-need sales, though at much larger scale.
• Carriage Services: U.S.-based provider of funeral and cemetery services with a portfolio of cemetery properties and funeral homes. Comparable as a multi-site cemetery and funeral services operator, though primarily U.S.-focused.
• Service Corporation International (SCI): One of North America's largest funeral, cemetery, and cremation services providers. Operates under brands such as Dignity Memorial and competes in the same broad cemetery/cremation services category, though at a much larger scale across multiple geographies.
• Park Lawn Corporation: Canadian-headquartered death-care services company operating cemeteries, funeral homes, and crematoria across North America. While broader and corporately structured, its cemetery operations and cremation services overlap directly with Le repos Saint-François d'Assise's offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

Investments

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