Canada Question

[Invicta]

I believe that there is at least one person on OLB who is Canadian? 

 

 

I wonder if there is any way to trace births or deaths in Canada?

 

My mother had an uncle who emigrated to Ontario in 1902, although on the 1911 census the give the father as emigrating in 1892 and the mother and son in 1904.

When my grandfather was killed in 1918, the uncle offered to adopt my mother and her older sister and take them to Canada and bring them up with his wife.  He married in Huntsville in 1920  and I have not been able to trace anything about the family since then.  

 

I would like to find out if I have any cousins there.  

[OLD fashioned preacher]

Salyan (one of the mods) is a Canadian (Alberta).

[Salyan]

You're fortunate - it looks like the 1921 census was just released to the public.  There was one in 1916 as well, but it only covered the prairie provinces.

http://www.ancestry.ca/Census

 

There's also a database for births to 1913, marriages to 1928, and deaths to 1938 (plus overseas deaths in WW2).

 

http://search.ancestry.ca/search/group/ontario_bmd

Any government records more recent than that are not yet public record. You'd probably have to contact the records departments of the specific town you are searching in to see if they will release information as part of genealogical research. Normally I would say that they would probably help you, but with the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act, they may not be able to release information for living persons.  If you get as far as a name and locality for a probably-living person, you could try www.canada411.ca to look for phone numbers.  I know there are services online that will help with searches like this for a fee, but there is no government service past the records released above.

 

Looks like Huntsville has a local genealogical research room, as well. The librarian there might be able to help. http://www.huntsvillelibrary.net/en/booksCollectionsMore/localhistorygenealogy.asp?_mid_=28708

Hope that helps!


 

 

[Invicta]

Thanks Salyan. I will try the census.

[Invicta]

Thank you, I Found my family of the 1921 census.  Sadly they were now RCs.

 

My great grandmother came from a Baptist family and was baptised and joined the church in Norwich, Norfolk.  in 1855 she resigned and joined the Salvation Amy after my ggf died. and in 1889 she remarried and became an Anglican.  In 1902 they emigrated to Canada where they say they are Anglicans.  Their son declares himself a Presbyterian then an Anglican but in 1920 married a Belgian girl both declared they were Catholics.  In 1921 all the family were Catholics.  How sad. 

[Salyan]

Oh , that's too bad. But I'm glad you found them!