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Quebec to provide access to adoption information mid-June, with conditions

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Gail Dever

When Barb first contacted a social services agency in Montreal in 1983 to find out who her birth mother was, she was 43 years old. A year later, she received non-identifying adoption information, and the agency told her they would conduct … Continue reading →

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New Brunswick opens sealed adoption records, PEI may follow

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Gail Dever

Effective April 1, 2018, adult adoptees and birth parents who have had a child placed for adoption in New Brunswick will be able to apply for access to identifying information. The identifying information can only be released upon the adoptee … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — October 8, 2016

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Quebec Adoption Records and Scotlands Places now Free by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Piper James Cleland Richardson, VC by Emily Monks-Leeson on Library and Archives Canada Blog. The History … Continue reading →

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Manitoba expects to open birth records related to adoptions

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Gail Dever

This month, the Government of Manitoba plans to open birth records related to adoption. The changes to The Adoption Act and The Vital Statistics Act will allow for more openness with respect to birth records related to adoption. Adult adoptees … Continue reading →

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