Manmeet Bhullar’s family carries on his legacy with South Asian funeral home

WATCH ABOVE: Calgary has a new kind of facility for people dealing with the death of a loved one. As Gil Tucker shows us, members of the well-known family behind the project are still recovering from a tragic loss of their own.

Baljinder Bhullar and his son, Appy, gave a tour Wednesday of the new funeral facility they’ve just opened in Calgary. Called the Country Hills Crematorium, it’s a project that was suggested by Baljinder’s son, Manmeet Bhullar.

“This is the Sikh symbol, we call it the Khanda, and this is the Hindu symbol, Om,”  Baljinder Bhullar explained as he pointed to designs on a collection of urns. “Most of our people, they would like to take ashes back to India.”

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A popular Calgary MLA and former Alberta cabinet minister, Bhullar died after being hit by a truck alongside the highway near Red Deer in November 2015.

He had pulled over and got out of his vehicle to help a driver who’d slid off the snowy road.