An N.L. man’s remains have gone unclaimed for years. These two want to bring him home [Video]

Two Newfoundland bar owners are raising money to help bury a man whose name is on a newly released list of 26 people who died in the province and were left unclaimed — some for more than three years.

Gord French said he was confused and heartbroken to see Rendell Crane among the list of deceased people being kept in freezers in St. John’s by Newfoundland and Labrador’s health authority. The list published last week said Crane died in Harbour Grace, N.L., on Dec. 13, 2023. He was 72.

“He was a wonderful person,” French, the owner of Easton’s 1602 Pub in Harbour Grace, said in an interview. “You know a really good person, somebody who smiles and is just a sweetheart? That’s Rendell Crane.”

Crane’s wife was buried in Harbour Grace in 2007, he said, and Rendell’s name is on the gravestone in a cemetery in the heart of …