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

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. But months after the end of a lengthy strike that brought operations at one of Canada’s largest cemeteries to a halt, Ms. Heffernan says she still can’t get an answer on when the burials can take place, despite repeated efforts to reach management....