About Us – Hosting 4 Hosts

Professional Hospitality Hosting for the Cowichan Valley

A Company people know, like and trust.

Our limousine expertise, familiarity with the area, and rich knowledge of the historical context and of the food and wine culture promises you will have a safe, and enjoyable limousine hospitality experience!

~Ducharme & Team

Products & Services

Limousine Transportation & Tours is our business. We know that when people book a limousine tour they celebrate something extraordinary and we integrate personal touches and enhanced services for you and your guests. Explore our elegant limousine services and ‘Add-On’ packages specifically designed to make our tours unique and exemplary.

The Cheesecake and Photography products and services are ‘Add-ons’ that uplift the elegance of our limousine experience with tailored packages to suit your needs. Our Cheesecake page, Photography page, and Social Purpose section below highlight and elaborate on our commitment to make your day truly memorable.

Services we offer, include:

  • Limousine Transportation & Tours (Coming Soon – Pending Approval)
  • Photography & Drone Art Gifts & Home/Business Décor
  • Cheesecakes for your limousine tours, private dinner parties & special occasions

About Us

Ducharme means: ‘with charm’. Our Metis-French family name, translates to ‘with charm,’ embodying my reputation as a ‘giver of happiness.’ Through integrating special touches and with our unparalleled customer service, I aim to serve you and make your experience unique, exceptional, and memorable.

Our Business Mission: At our business, we foster meaningful connections between hosts, guests, and visitors within our homes and communities. Our primary focus is to enrich your experiences by crafting safe, customized tours that leave a lasting impression. We also streamline hosts’ responsibilities, allowing them to relax and enjoy the experience themselves. Essentially, our business lives up to its name: we host for hosts.

Social Purpose & Philanthropy

Our business is unique and believe it is equally important to enact our values through charity involvement and engagement to make our world a safer and better place. Specifically, Homicide has been a meaningful cause that has been close to my heart as you will see below. Grief and loss, while uncomfortable, is a part of life and comes at the most unexpected times. Our experience in grief and bereavement has served our clients in meaningful ways providing a level of care and professionalism that is unique and unparalleled in the Limousine industry.

We respect that contributions can be financial or in the form of time or energy. Having personally dedicated over 10,000 volunteer hours to supporting victims of crime, our vision and energy has filled dire gaps in our municipal, provincial, and federal social and political systems.

Our Charity of Choice – The BC Bereavement Helpline

Compassionate Listening and Care, Information, Support and Referrals

The BCBH has a 30+ year history of providing bereavement support services and is a leading global organization in the field of bereavement.

Our provincial Helpline has assisted over 40,000 callers since its inception in 1988 and continues to be the only free, grief-specific helpline via phone and email in Canada. When you contact the BC Bereavement Helpline, your call or email will be answered by a caring, compassionate volunteer who, through the BCBH Resource Directory, can access information for 300+ organizations that help those coping with grief and loss located in over 80 communities in BC. Volunteers are also trained to provide compassionate listening, so if all you need is to talk to someone, the Helpline volunteers are there to listen. Your call is free, confidential, anonymous, and will be treated with care in helping you find the most appropriate support for your specific type of loss.

Volunteers are also trained to provide compassionate listening, so if all you need is to talk to someone, the Helpline volunteers are there to listen. Your call is free, confidential, anonymous, and will be treated with care in helping you find the most appropriate support for your specific type of loss.

BC Victims of Homicide operates under the umbrella organization, The British Columbia Bereavement Helpline, and still requires your ongoing support!

“I felt it was valuable for all of us to learn each other’s stories and how each person handles their pain. The classes were well put together and I found that I learned more regarding P.T.S.D. and how to handle my stress better.”
~Victim/Participant (anonymous) – https://bcbh.ca/grief-support/homicide-grief-support/

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The Creation of BC Victims of Homicide

Through a series of personal processing, making meaningful and powerful connections, and moving back to BC I was determined to start up BC’s first homicide support group program. Partnering up with Jo-Ann Turner-Crean and the BC Bereavement Helpline (BCBH) proved to be just the answer to achieve my dream of helping other surviving victims.

With additional support from local, federal, and municipal governments, victims, partner affiliations, sponsors, donors, grant programs, volunteers, board and staff members, Ducharme successfully created “BC Victims of Homicide,” a, then, new critical service to support homicide survivors in their journey of healing and reconciliation under the umbrella organization BCBH.

The Hon. Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay, Former Member of Parliament (Left), Jo-Ann Turner Crean, Past-President British Columbia Bereavement Helpline (middle), and Christopher Ducharme, BCBH Past President and Founder of BC Victims of Homicide (right). At a Government of Canada Federal press conference and announcement of our first federal funding for the BCVOH program.
My Motivation – A Personal Tragedy

The mechanism of coping with grief and bereavement hits close to home; following the high-profile 1996 murder of my mother, Patricia Grace Ducharme, by a former Vancouver Police Officer, I began my long journey through grief and living with trauma. After years of therapeutic counseling to help come to terms with the complex grief, it became apparent there was a lack of resources required for victims, like me, to move forward in their lives. Luckily, for me, I discovered a homicide-loss support group in Edmonton, which made a big difference and instilled my passion to create support programs, resources, and law reform to make a meaningful difference.

My Inspiration – A Canadian Hero

​I began my philanthropic career around the same time that the movie ‘Pay it Forward” was released in the year 2000. At the same time, I met my first Canadian hero, Michael Cuccione, from The Michael Cuccione Foundation inspired me to live with love and compassion. He opened my eyes and introduced me to amazing circles of people including his parents, Gloria and Domenic, in 2002 who gifted their love and compassion to everyone they met. From then onward, I noticed all the beautiful people in this world who were committed to ‘making a difference’ (Michael’s quote), and it made me want to follow in their footsteps. Michael died at the age of 16 with a dying wish that no other child would suffer from cancer again. Truly an honorable and admirable young man.

Watch this short 3 minute video of Michael’s heartfelt story!

Aftermath of Murder: Survivor Stories – Documentary Series

A 18-part short-form documentary series created and co-produced by Ducharme to honor victims with a platform to publically describe the victimization process and share the loss, grief, and their hope for healing in the aftermath of murder. This documentary series reached over 2 Million viewers has been integrated into university curricula, and government policies, and has informed the public through media serving as an educational tool and a healing process.

Aftermath of Murder: Survivor Stories (AOM) is a production by the BC Victims of Homicide, an initiative of the BC Bereavement Helpline and corporate partner Shaky Egg Communications Inc.

This is the first introductory video an eighteen part videos; 6 in Season 1 and 12 videos in Season 2.

When you lose someone to murder, whether a family member, a co-worker, or a friend you become another victim of the crime and a homicide survivor. Murder is a deliberate act causing a devastating loss. The extraordinary experience of this type of loss can bring about sensitive issues such as guilt, fear, shame, anger, sorrow, revenge, suicidal tendencies, and regret.

By sharing and listening to others who have experienced this unique event, survivors can have their feelings validated to help them move through their grief and trauma. There is help and hope out there. If you or someone you know has experienced a loss through homicide, please share this information with them, or direct them to the BC Victims of Homicide and the BCB Bereavement Helpline webpages.

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