Markham's Commemorative Tree Planting partnership provides a creative and lasting way for individual residents, families, businesses, schools and community groups to honour friends and family or to celebrate special events. Your tree will serve as a living tribute for generations to come.

The Town will plant a mutually agreed upon, standard-sized tree in a park and provide you with a commemorative certificate for a fee of $250.00. We will also provide regularly scheduled maintenance to the tree and surrounding area.

When choosing the date of planting or type of tree to be planted, it is important to note that applications received by March 31st will be planted in the Spring and applications received by July 31st will be planted in the Fall. Many native trees such as Maples and Oaks require spring planting.

Commemorative benches are available from the Town for $250. The bench is made of recycled plastic.

The donor's plaque can be installed for an additional $100 approximately. Plaque wording and bench location are subject to Town approval.

The application can be found here.

For more information, contact Nory Takata at ntakata@markham.ca.