Adoption Support Kinship

Adoption Registry

Adoption Information
Online Certificate Application, birth, marriage, death certificate

Adoption Council of Ontario

Adoption Advocacy

Adoptee's guide to Ontario's 37th Parliament
MPs and their stand on question of open records

Adoption Newsletters Directory in Canada

Birth, Marriage, Death Index- Martin site

Birth, Marriage, Death Index- Government site

Birth Father Registry

Information for Canadians

Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST)

Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto

Native Family & Child Services of Toronto

Cemetery Finding Aid
Note: this list is not complete - I tried several known graves in small town Ontario and they weren't there!!! Use it as an aid - not a decision maker.

Coalition for Open Adoption Records (C.O.A.R.)

Child Migrants
note: more links in non-Canadian chapter

Wendy’s Wonderful Kids
is a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption that combines the fundraising of Wendy's and its customers

Origins Canada: Supporting People Separated By Adoption

Home Children - Surnames - searchable

International Reunion Services is the Best, not only for for difficult searches but all searches.
Please email to get assistance
Thank You So Much for locating my parents, without You, I would be in the same place - at a very dead end, Thank You

There are 53 Children's Aid Societies in Ontario

First Nation/Metis children in Canada between the years of 1960 and the mid 1980's

Family Law Act

Metis Nation of Ontario

Native Society Family Reunification Project

Ontario Genealogical and History Links

OntarioGenWeb

Ontario Jewish Archives

Orphanages across Canada

Toronto Archives

# 1 CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH
is filled out in Ont. as a preface to getting a birth certificate. It can be done by the parent, Dr., etc. It usually has all the pertinent info like DOB, time, place, weight, etc. You can get a copy by going IN PERSON to the Registrars office at Bay and Wellesly and just requesting it. You have to pay a small fee, and they send it to you within a short time. They supposedly don't ask questions, but you need your date and place of birth. (Thanks friend on CANADopt!)


# 2 CERTIFIED COPY OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE
DOB, time, place etc. It's a green form, and it costs $22.00 from your registry office. In Ottawa, 161 Elgin St. . 4th floor. In Toronto the phone number is 1-800-461-2156 (Pretty busy though.) Also for those parents who don't know, you can not get any kind of certificate from them if your child is over 18. So don't wait too long !!!!!!! You need their permission in writing after that.


# 3 DIVORCE INDICES: Divorce indices have been moved to the Archives of Ontario (77 Grenville St.). The books are arranged chronological by years and then by the initial of the surname. Look for the surname in the approximate years and copy down full names and file number. Ask the staff to show you how to fill out a request slip to retrieve the file you want. Retrieval takes 3-5 days. Be sure to tell them you require the books not the reels with all kinds of judgements.

A NASTY BIT OF HISTORY

The law in Ontario changed in 1970 re birth names. Some judges started this early in anticipation of the change. If you were adopted around this time you would no longer have a birth name. You would only be John D. #4965047. Your adoption papers would have John D. #4965047. Hence no surname to search with.

All adoptees from 1970 on do not have birth names. Prior to this they did. In effect it is age discrimination.
Age discrimination falls under Human Rights.

FIRST NATION AGENCIES

Weechi-it-te-win Family Services:
Fort Francis 807-274-3201 Fax: 807 - 274 - 8425
KENORA & RAINY RIVER DISTRICT

Ojibway Tribal Family Services:
Kenora, 807 - 468 - 4533

Native Child and Family Services
Toronto, 416-969-8510

Anishnawbe Health Centre:
Toronto, 416-360-0486; fax: 416-365-1083

Wabaseemoong Family Services:
Keewatin 807-547-3386; fax: 807-547-3351

Tikingan Child and Family Services:
Sioux Lookout 807-737-3466

Dilico Ojibway Child and Family Services:
Fort William First Nation, Thunder Bay, 807-625-8514

Some Toronto Maternity Homes

Bethel Home(Pentecostal),
115 Bonis Ave., Agincourt, Ont. M1T 3S4. 905-293-2074

Humewood House,
40 Humewood Dr., Toronto, Ont. M6C 2W4.416-651-5657

Jewels for Jesus Mission Inc.,
2110 Argentia Rd., Suite 306, Mississauga, 905-821-7494

Rosalie Hall
3020 Lawrence Ave. E., Scarborough, Ont.
M1P 2T7 416-438-6880

Salvation Army Bethany Home,
450 Pape Ave., Toronto, Ont. M4K 3P7 416-461-0217

Massey Home (formerly known as Victor Home)
102 Broadview Ave., Toronto, Ont. M4K 2S5 416-425-634

PARENT FINDERS: information and assistance

Adoption orders in Quebec are known as the Certificate of Judgement.
They DO NOT include birth name.

Details of Law and Making Application

Quebec non- identifying information

MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES

Mouvement Retrouvailles in French and English

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF QUEBEC in English

Native Society Family Reunification Project

Duplessis Orphans

Orphanages across Canada

Orphans' home website
Canada and United States

Orphans Records

Parent Finders Quebec / Montreal

Quebec Archives

Searching for birth parents, children or siblings

Vital Statistics Information