Someone has been telling you stories. The death records for 1978 haven't been seen to archives. 1869-1929 are at the Ontario Archives http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/vsmain.htmailable 1930 to present can only be obained from the Registrar of Ontario Office of the Registrar General PO Box 4600, 189 Red River Road THUNDER BAY ONT P7B 6L8 1-800-461-2156 I believe the fee is $15.00. The 1940 National Registration Records are available from Statistics Canada. The fee is $45.00 Cdn + taxes. However the information is protected by the Privacy Act. The person must be dead for more than 20 years before you can have access. They will ask for proof - an obit or death certificate. 1940 National Registration Records Description: The records provide social and economic information on individuals as well as information on their skills. Class of Individuals: All persons 16 years of age or older in the period 1940-1946 with the exception of those people who were, at the time of registration, members of the armed forces or a religious order, or confined to an institution. Purpose: The information was originally obtained under the authority of the National Resources Mobilization Act, 1940, and the War Measures Act to permit the mobilization of all of the effective resources of the nation, both human and material, for the purpose of the defence and security of Canada. The National Registration Regulations pursuant to this legislation gave custody of the records to Statistics Canada, then known as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Consistent Uses: A program has been established called the Census Microfilm and Pension Searches Sub-Unit to provide proof of age, place of residence, family relationships or length of residence in Canada from historic census records and 1940 National Registration Records. The service is normally provided in support of application for pensions, citizenship, passports and similar situations where other more preferred administrative records are required but no longer exist or, as in a number of cases, were never issued. Searches are also conducted to provide third parties with information on individuals who were included in the 1940 National Registration. This information is typically requested for genealogical purposes and is made available only if proof is provided that the person about whom information is requested has been deceased for more than twenty years. A standard fee of $45.00 (+PST and $3.15 GST) is charged for each search undertaken but the fee will be refunded if the search is not successful. Requests should be sent to: Census Microfilm and Pension Search Sub-Unit, Census Operations Division, Statistics Canada, B1E-34, Jean Talon Building, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6. Retention and Disposal Standards: The records are retained indefinitely. -----Original Message----- From: Irvin &Chris [SMTP:ijmorey@eidnet.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 7:54 AM To: WOODS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WOODS-L] 1940 Canadian Census National Registration Is there any kind soul out there who has access to the East York, Ontario National Registration Census File of 1940. I know that it can be purchased. My grandmother Bessie Gertrude WOOD/s ne: PERRIN is on this Census and I would love to have a copy of it. She was born in 1904 and her records are sitting in limbo waiting to be filed at the Archives. Until I can obtain her death and birth cert from the Archives, Vital Stats won't release the 1940 census documents they have on her to me...even though I have my birth cert, my mother's birth cert and my grandmother's marriage cert. They also want 50.00 for her 1940 census records. It could be a year before the Archives are able to get those documents for me. I thought that my grandmother had died in 1978 and was buried in Eden Cemetery, Peterborough Twp, Fenlon Falls. A very kind and generous researcher looked in the 1978 newspapers and could find no Obit. Two years ago I wrote to Vital Stats for my grandmother's death cert and they sent me the wrong person's cert. Then by the time we got the error sorted out they told me they sent her information all to the Archives. If I lived in Ontario I would go down to the Archives or Library and pour through pages of info but " no can do!". If someone out there can offer some suggestions I sure could use them as I am getting frustrated. I still don't understand why we are refused information on our own family and especially if one is NOT adopted......Chris. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.249 / Virus Database: 122 - Release Date: 13/04/01 ==== WOODS Mailing List ==== All rights including Copyrights to the messages sent to this LIST for distribution to its subscribers remain with the original author of each message.