After strike kept this Montreal cemetery closed for months, families can finally bury their loved ones

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Enza Lucifero’s father, Saverio, died on Jan. 14. He was 87.

She describes him as a highly spiritual man who wanted to be buried in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery, on the slopes of Mount Royal, the symbolic centre of the city where he lived most of his life.

But it took eight months to lay him to rest there, a consequence of a drawn-out labour dispute between the cemetery’s employees and the non-profit that runs it.

On Tuesday, Enza and her family finally buried him. It was an emotional experience, she said, and one that reopened old wounds. 

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“I’m happy for him,” Enza said of

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