My Search for Answers
On November 27, 2007, I accompanied my wife to complete our "Last Will and Testament" formalities. Since Donna Guidolin also assisted me with an Affidavit related to my representation as the sole surviving family member with an interest in the McGregor Ross mausoleum in the Pioneer Section of the Waterdown Union Cemetery, I submitted documentary evidence to that effect and asked for clarification of the Ontario Cemeteries Regulations which were kindly outlined by Mike D'Mello in abbreviated form.
The first set of documents below includes the probated will of my Aunt Phoebe M. Ross. It includes the direction to her sole executor and trustee "to have her body cremated and the ashes placed in the Ross Family Vault at Waterdown, Ontario". By this will in June of 1973, it appears obvious that both the deceased and the executor/trustee are considered Interment Right Holders (IRH), having inherited the "vault". [The custodian of the vault/mausoleum since the summer of 1953 has been myself, John Douglas Ross, when my father withdrew $200 from his bank in Oshawa and told me that I was in charge of the family vault in Waterdown.]
The first set of documents below includes the probated will of my Aunt Phoebe M. Ross. It includes the direction to her sole executor and trustee "to have her body cremated and the ashes placed in the Ross Family Vault at Waterdown, Ontario". By this will in June of 1973, it appears obvious that both the deceased and the executor/trustee are considered Interment Right Holders (IRH), having inherited the "vault". [The custodian of the vault/mausoleum since the summer of 1953 has been myself, John Douglas Ross, when my father withdrew $200 from his bank in Oshawa and told me that I was in charge of the family vault in Waterdown.]
My Aunt Phoebe had major abdominal surgeries between January of 1965 and June of 1973, and on each occasion she would hand a sealed envelope to me. The words to her obituary were identical in every case. Each message or codicil contained approximately the same set of instructions/wishes, and her signature was witnessed by either the Boltons (a neighbour) or Ib Amundsen (the apartment owner at 1920 Bloor Street West). The most explicit instructions were completed in the year of my marriage, and some minor additions on two pages were placed in the same sealed envelope . . . as follows: 
