Amenities

  • Flexible event space
    Facility is available to host your personal events
  • Large-capacity chapel
  • Piano or organ on-site
  • Coffee lounge
  • Piano or organ on-site
  • Flexible event space
    Facility is available to host your personal events
  • Large-capacity chapel
  • Coffee lounge
  • Option for home delivery of ashes
  • Option for mail delivery of ashes
    Sent through postal mail service, signature required. Expect delays in Canada due to Covid-19 restrictions on mail requiring a signature.
  • Scattering assistance
  • Catered events
  • Arrangements by phone and email
    complete funeral planning without needing a funeral home visit
  • Tribute video production
    Services available to create a tribute video for the service or obituary from photos and videos.
  • Popular funeral music selections
  • Intimate gatherings
  • Meeting space
    space available for corporate and organization meetings
  • Black car service
  • Police escort available
  • Multicultural funerals
  • Vietnamese

About

With more than 160 years of experience at Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home & Chapel, we provide the kind of compassionate care you cannot get elsewhere. From funerals to memorials, burials to cremations, simple to grand, we make your or your loved one's final wishes a reality.

Located in a beautiful, 2-story, Victorian-style home on West Street, the stately facility is warm, welcoming, comfortable and spacious. The grounds are manicured to perfection. Inside and out, Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home & Chapel is the ideal place to plan a funeral, gather for reflection and celebrate a life.

Unique services

Our experienced and compassionate staff knows that losing a loved one is hard, and we're here to guide you every step of the way. We offer everything from a traditional church funeral and cemetery burial to a modern celebration of life with live music, catering and a send-off that reflects the personality and passions of yourself or your loved one. We strive to create meaningful tributes to those who have meant so much to family and friends. Do you want a dove release? You got it. How about personalized sparklers as a memento? You can have those, too. What about a horse-driven carriage to carry your loved one away? Yes. The list is literally endless.

Trusted provider

Lobby at Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home & ChapelAs a member of the Dignity Memorial® network, Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home & Chapel gives you not only the familiar attention you expect from a locally operated funeral home but also the value you deserve by way of the largest network of funeral, cremation and cemetery providers in North America.

We invite you to call us for immediate assistance or to learn more about planning ahead. If you are a police officer, firefighter or EMT ask about our public servants program.

History

Established in Brantford in 1860 as H.S. Pierce Funeral Home, Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home & Chapel is the second-oldest business in Brantford and a pillar of the community.

Already in the funeral profession in Burk’s Falls, Wilfred A. Thorpe and his brothers, O.J. Thorpe and R.R. Thorpe, purchased H.S. Pierce Funeral Home in 1917 and renamed it Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home. Originally located on Colborne Street, Thorpe Brothers offered limited services until Wilfred bought the Victorian-style home of Canadian author, Sara Jeanette Duncan, and turned it into the stately full-service funeral facility it is today.

Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home became part of the Dignity Memorial® network of funeral, cremation and cemetery providers in 1991. Our business has evolved to meet the changing needs of the Brantford community. Our range of service options now includes everything from a traditional funeral to a modern celebration of life with live music, catering and a send-off that reflects the personality and passions of yourself or your loved one.

Day or night, we are always here to help.

Celebration of Life Planning

Our planners are celebration of life experts. We plan more celebrations each year than any other provider, and we know just what to do to create a uniquely beautiful and heartfelt tribute with attention to detail like no other.

Every family who entrusts us with their loved one’s service can expect an event that includes:
  • meaningful music celebration of life

    Meaningful music

    Families are surprised to learn that we can play any songs you’d like or a different playlist for every aspect of the celebration.

  • cherished memories celebration of life

    Cherished memories

    A curated display of photographs and personal items invites family and friends to remember special moments and defining details.

  • a personalized message celebration of life

    A personalized message

    We work with a celebrant, clergy member or officiant to craft a heartfelt message that reflects your loved one and uplifts guests.

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When planning a celebration of life, your imagination is the only limit.

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Simple can still mean exceptional. Let us show you how.

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Unable to find an obituary?

Not finding what you are looking for? Search for your loved one's obituary across any of our other locations.

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