H.M. Huskilson’s Funeral Homes and Crematorium Limited had its modest beginings 142 years ago in 1878 near Lockeport, Shelburne County, when Erlandur Huskilson, an Icelandic immigrant and a carpneter by trade, began making caskets for deceased community members. His son, Lewis Huskilson followed in his father’s footsteps, and opened a funeral home in Lockeport in 1909, where a chapel was built in 1962, with the entire building being completely renovated and doubled in size in 1995.
After the second World War, Lewis’ son Harold, a graduate of Mount Allison University, assisted his father in the funeral business. Harold went on to graduate from Renouard’s College of Embalming in New York City in 1946. Upon his return, Harold, now a licensed funeral director and embalmer, opened a funeral home in Shelburne in 1947, and subsequently purchased the Laurie King Funeral Home in Shelburne in 1958. The current funeral home on Bulkley Street in Shelburne, was opened in 1988. It is a very spacious, modern and comfortable facility. It was in Shelburne where Harold’s son Clifford, a graduate of Dalhousie University, began working with his father in 1975. Clifford is a licensed funeral director and embalmer, and his wife, Linda, also worked with him at the Shelburne location until their semi-retirement in 2016. They currently live in Shelburne, and have two children, Andrew and Andrea.
