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- Park Lawn Corporation Park Lawn Corporation (TSX:PLC.TO) owns and operates cemeteries, crematoria, funeral homes, chapels, planning offices, event centers and transfer services throughout two Canadian provinces and seventeen U.S. states, providing a full range of customizable products and services associated with the disposition and memorialization of human remains on a pre-need or at-need basis; core offerings include cemetery lots, crypts, niches, monuments, caskets, urns and other merchandise, as well as funeral services, after-life celebration services and cremation services. The company, founded in 1892 through the opening of Toronto's Park Lawn Cemetery (formerly Humbervale Cemetery) and incorporated in 2010 as an Ontario corporation, maintains headquarters at 2 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 705, Toronto, Ontario. Park Lawn targets families and individuals seeking dignified end-of-life solutions across North America, emphasizing organic growth through infrastructure investments such as new cemetery inventory build-outs, funeral home remodels and constructions, alongside operational improvements and strategic tuck-in acquisitions to enhance market presence. Recent expansions include the October 2025 acquisition of assets from Atlanta Crematory, Cremation Society of Georgia and Wages & Sons Funeral Homes in the greater Atlanta market, adding two stand-alone funeral homes and cremation capabilities in Georgia; the October 2025 opening of Taos Memorial Gardens adjacent to DeVargas Funeral Home in New Mexico; the May 2025 purchase of Hood Mortuary in Durango and Pagosa Springs, Colorado; the November 2024 acquisition of Callaway Jones in Texas; and earlier 2024 transactions such as two Colorado assets and Citadel Management LLC, reflecting ongoing U.S. footprint growth following the 2024 go-private transaction with Homesteaders Life Company and Birch Hill Equity Partners valued at approximately C$1.2 billion.