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V.S. Sweeny Ltd.
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- Sweeny’s Funeral Home and Crematorium
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Dates of existence
1860-1973
History
V.S. Sweeny Ltd. was founded by Jacob Sweeny in 1860 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Sweeny was a carpenter and cabinet-maker by trade, and worked for J.G. Allen, a furniture dealer and undertaker. Sweeny bought his business in 1860. Sweeny’s son, Vernon S. Sweeny, took over operations in 1918 and sold the furniture-dealing division to the Rogers Company in 1919. The undertaking business remained in the Sweeny family until 1973, when Layton Goodwin purchased it and added a crematorium in 2011.
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"Our story." Sweeny's Funeral Home and Crematorium. Accessed December 21, 2018 from https://www.sweenysfuneralhome.net/our-story-and-staff.