Charles Parris was a beloved neighbour in his building, but died with no one to bury him. His case highlights a growing problem across Ontario.
Brown paper covered its wide front window, and an eclectic mix of signs were displayed on the paper for wandering neighbours to see. Blocky printing warned that a thief was in their midst: someone had stolen a flat-screen TV. “PLEASE RETURN,” the message read. There was a printed-out article about ways to repel cockroaches, and a pair of $40 meal-for-two coupons from 2012.
For 10 months, this subsidized apartment sat uninhabited, despite the housing affordability crisis that waged on beyond its doors — a state of limbo that TCHC acknowledges was unusually long.
But even a beloved neighbour can slip into an anonymous system at life’s end. Harry Quan, who lives nearby and befriended Parris some 10 years ago, believes a collision of circumstances led to Parris’ file landing on the chief coroner’s desk as unclaimed. Some of his closest relatives predeceased him, Quan said, including a child whose loss Parris grappled with many years back. Other more distant relations were based in other countries.
A public trustee probe can take much longer than the four-to-six week timelines the coroner’s office aims to meet. While the public trustee’s office would not disclose details of its probe on Henry St. specifically, its investigations generally try to determine if there is an executor or capable next of kin in Ontario for the person’s estate, and whether that estate is valued at $10,000 or more after all debts and funeral costs have been paid.
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