Our Mission

The Last Post Fund (LPF), founded in 1909 in Montreal, Quebec, is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to ensure that no Veteran is denied a dignified funeral and burial, as well as a military gravestone, due to insufficient funds at time of death.

Its primary mandate is to deliver the Veterans Affairs Canada Funeral and Burial Program which provides funeral, burial and grave marking benefits for eligible Canadian and Allied Veterans.

In addition to delivering the Funeral and Burial Program, the Last Post Fund supports other initiatives designed to honour the memory of Canadian and Allied Veterans. It owns and manages its own military cemetery, the National Field of Honour. Moreover, the Last Post Fund has created the Unmarked Grave Program which is meant to provide military markers for unmarked Veterans’ graves.

The Last Post Fund is supported financially by Veterans Affairs Canada and by private donations.

About Our Charity

The Last Post Fund is dedicated to ensure, in so far as possible, that no veteran is denied a dignified funeral and burial for lack of sufficient funds.

"To honour and protect in death seems but a small return to those who have protected their country in life."