Perhaps if you write a letter, care of the funeral home, they might be able to forward it to the next of kin, or whoever made the arrangements.
http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/DignityMemorial/guestbook.as...

http://www.ccabc.org/boal-chapel-and-memorial-garden-2/

You can search for local obits in the “Vancouver Sun” here. Change calendar to “All time”…
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/vancouversun/

and then fine tune the results to include all BC obituaries. You might find a relative.

You can search BC BMDs here…
http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-11CA2FF/gbsearch

or here (you might be lucky and find a digital image)…
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/Basi...