Vital Records in Canada

As in the USA, each Canadian province (similiar to a USA state) is responsible for recording and storing birth, marriage and death registrations and issuing certificates. Below is a list of adresses to write to for records on your Canadian ancestors and the years for which such records are available. Some provinces also have web sites for these offices, just click on the underlined names for a direct link to them.

ALBERTA: Social Services and Community Health Division of Vital Statistics Texaco Building 10130 112th Street Edmonton, ALB, Canada T5K 2P2 (Incomplete birth records from 1853. Incomplete death records from 1893. Most records complete from 1898. Complete from 1918.) BRITISH COLUMBIA: Province of British Columbia Ministry of Health, Division of Vital Statistics 818 Fort Street Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1H8 (all records begin 1872) Also check out: British Columbia Archives MANITOBA: Manitoba Family Services-Vital Statistics Norquay Building, Room 104 254 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MAN, Canada R3C 0B6 (all records begin 1882) NEW BRUNSWICK: Dept. of Health and Community Services Division of Vital Statistics P.O. Box 6000 Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5H1 (all records begin in 1888) NEWFOUNDLAND: Vital Statistics Division Dept. of Health Confederation Building, P.O. Box 8700 St. John's, NFD, Canada A1B 4J6 (all records begin 1892) NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Registrar General of Vital Statistics Government of the Northwest Territories P.O. Box 1320 Yellowknife, NWT, Canada X1A 2L9 (records begin in 1940)

NOVA SCOTIA: Deputy Registrar General Nova Scotia Dept. of Health 1723 Hollis Street, P.O. Box 157 Halifax, NS, Canada B3J 2M9 (records begin in 1864, but marriage records are incomplete 1876-1908) Also check out: Nova Scotia Genealogy Network Association ONTARIO: Office of Registrar General 189 Red River Road, P.O. Box 4600 Thunder Bay, ONT, Canada P7B 6L8 (all records begin: July 1869) Ontario Vital Statistics Records - indexes for birth, death & marriage records Important Ontario Records for the Genealogist from The Ontario Genealogical Society PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Dept. of Health and Social Services Division of Vital Statistics, P.O. Box 2000 Charlottetown, PEI, Canada C1A 7N8 (birth and death records begin 1906. marriage records from 1832. Church baptismal records from 1800) QUEBEC: Archives Nationales du Quebec Regional Centre, 1210 Avenue de Seminaire St. Foy, QUE, Canada G1V 4A8 (records back to 1926. Church records back to 1621) SASKATCHEWAN: Dept. of Health Division of Vital Statistics 1919 Rose Street Regina, SAS, Canada S4P 3V7 (records incomplete from 1878. records complete from 1920) YUKON: Dept. of Health and Human Service Division of Vital Statistics P.O. Box 2703 Whitehorse, YUK, Canada Y1A 2C6 (records begin in 1899. birth records from 1895)

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