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Thesearchguru has posted search resources for Canada. Here's the information:
Canadian Searching Resources
Searching Resources in Canada:
Excellent website: [url]http://nebula.on.ca/canadopt/index.htm[/url]
Non-profit volunteer organization in Canada to help with searches:
Parent Finders of Canada
Joan Vanstone will answer searching questions for Canada: jvanstone@dccnet.com
Website: [url]http://www.parentfinders.org/[/url]
Phone: 604-926-1096
Another helpful website:
[url]http://www.canadianadopteesregistry.org[/url]
Information on Quebec searches (from adoptee Terry who found his birth family):
"The search tool that works best is this quasi official agency called CENTRE JEUNESSE de QUEBECThe director is Marie-Paul Mastoumecq she does not speak good English. The person to ask for is:Ellen Gagon phone number: 418-661-6951 fax: 418-661-2845 address: 2951, avenue DU bourg-Royal, Bueaport Quebec G1c3s2(all you need is your name, date of birth, adopted parents name and city of birth)I believe they can find your file with names and date of birth only. You should ask for all information available in your file to be sent to you, They will send all they can. I got my non- ID in three weeks. Along with non-ID are forms for them to do a search for you. The search costs around $500 (American)... payable in three stages. I highly recommend this if a search is necessary. If the person you are looking for has also been in contact with their office that is an instant mach. In those cases they give you names and addresses of the person you are looking for.Anyway I sent in the $180 (American) for the first stage and they found b-mom in three weeks it seems to move very fast.This seems to be the only location that has centralized the adoption files from the Quebec Province.Up until recently it was the local churches that keep all birth/marriage and adoption records thus making searching Quebec very difficult. ŔFor free searches I don't know but scanning the many boards in French has improved my French but that is about it."
Here is some information for searching in Ontario, Canada. I hope you find the information helpful in your search:
Registry
Adoptions and Operational Services
Ministry of Community and Social Services
Adoption Information Unit
2 Floor St. West, 24th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M4W 3H8
Adoption Disclosure Register Clerk: (416) 327-4730
International Adoptions: (416) 327-4739
Relative Adoptions: (416) 327-4740
Private Adoptions: (416) 327-4741
I would recommend that you register with the Adoption Disclosure Unit
in Toronto. Their search services are free. If the person you are looking for is already registered then a match will be made very quicklyԅif not then you can have them do a search for you.
Their website is [url]www.gov.on.ca[/url]
Canada Links:
For more links to province-by-province search information see [url]http://www.canadopt.ca/[/url]
Canadian Adoptees Registry Inc.
Canadian Reunion Registry
Alberta
Alberta Vital Statistics Act Adoption records and access
Alberta Adult Adoption Act The adoption of an adult
Alberta Adoptee Page
British Columbia
Full text of Adoption Act of 1995
Access to Information Summary from the BC Ministry for Children and Families
B.C.'s Adoption Reunion Registry
Manitoba
The Adoption Act In PDF format
LINKS Post-Legal Adoption Support Group Inc.
New Brunswick
Vital Statistics Act Deals specifically with records provisions
Family Services Act General adoption procedure
Newfoundland
Adoption of Children Act
Northwest Territories
Adoption Act
Nova Scotia
Adoption Information Act of 1996
Adoption Records Issue Referred to Law Commission/1999
Ontario
Child and Family Services Act
Adoption Disclosure in Ontario
Adoption Disclosure Registry
Ontario Adoption Issues Voter's guide and more.
Prince Edward Island
Adoption Act PDF format
Quebec
Adoption Code in English
Adoption Code in French
Parent Finders Montreal
Black Market Babies Registry
Saskatchewan
Adoption Act
Yukon
Children's Act of 1984
Many blessings on your search journey,
Colleen Buckner
The Search Guru
Moderator for Search and Reunion Message Board
[url]http://www.adoptionforums.com[/url]
[url]http://www.adoptionchat.com[/url]
[url]http://www.adoptionlists.com[/url]
[url]http://www.adoption.com[/url]
[url]http://www.adopting.org[/url]
[url]http://www.adoptionregistry.com[/url]
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