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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Canada Resources => Topic started by: KarenM on Sunday 16 October 05 14:37 BST (UK)
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Hi everyone,
Just thought I would post a note to let anyone know that when you order a copy of the 1940 National Registration they tell you it takes about 60 days from receipt. I ordered one this week. Hopefully it won't take so long, I'm not very good with waiting.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-911.007-e.html
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=93C0006&lang=eng
Karen
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excuse me for asking what is the National Register? and where do you purchase it from.
Pam
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Hi Pam,
Here's a copy from the web site:
The National Registration File of 1940 resulted from the compulsory registration of all persons, 16 years of age or older, in the period from 1940 to 1946. This information was originally obtained under the authority of The National Resources Mobilization Act and the War Measures Act. Custody of the records was subsequently given to Statistics Canada, then known as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
As a result, the National Registration File of 1940 is not subject to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act but is instead covered by the Privacy Act. According to this Act, when a person has been dead for more than 20 years, the information is no longer considered to be personal and can be disclosed.
Here's the link:
http://www.statcan.ca:8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=93C0006
I have been spoiled by the City of Birmingham in obtaining information, it only takes about 5 days to receive a bmd certificate in the mail from there to here in Ontario.
It costs $48.15 CDN, which is a little pricy, but I am at my wit's end on my grandfather and am just curious to see what he has put down!
Karen
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Thank you very much
It is a great help.
Kindest Regards
Pam
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It's awfully expensive - and I don't think I know nearly enoguh where rellies are lving
Bob
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Yes, I thought it quite expensive too, but I'm hoping there will be a little bit of information to help me figure out my grandfather. If there is something it will be well worth it.
Karen
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Karen,
Did you have to provide proof that your grandfather has been dead at least 20 years?
Thanks!
Josephine
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Hi Josephine,
Yes, I did have to send a copy of his death certificate, which luckily I have (well actually a funeral director's statement of death which is equivilant). He died in 1972.
Karen
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I had a pleasant surprise this morning when the courier showed up at my house with the copy of my registration.
You actually get a copy of the original and they give you a copy of it typed out since the original is on microfilm and is a little hard to read the questions which they ask.
Karen
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Let us know how helpful it is to you...as it all sounds terrific in theory...
Glad that you didn't need to wait as long as they thought... J.J.
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Karen,
Does it list only the person or the entire household?
Thanks!
Josephine
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Hi JJ and Josephine,
It only lists the person's name on it, but one of the questions is
Of what dependents (if any) are you the sole support?
a) father
b) mother
c) wife
d) number of children under 16 years
e) number of other dependants
f) do you contribute partial support to any one
It also asks for Country of Birth
a) yourself
b) your father
c) your mother
My grandfather just answered Ontario Canada for his parents
Another section are the following questions
16 a1) Were you brought up on a farm?
a2) Until what age?
b1) have you worked on a farm?
b2) how long
b3) In what province or country?
c1) can you handle horses?
c2) drive a tractor
c3) use farm machinery?
c4) can you milk?
c5) are you able to do other farm work?
17. Is there any particular occupation in which you would like to be specially trained?
My grandfather answered ground man in air force
18. Defence Services
It also asks about Nationality, education, health, class of occupation, occupation or craft and unemployment.
I think I would order another one for a family member, it confirmed a couple of little things, but confused me on other's (which my grandfather has been very good at!)
Karen
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Thanks, Karen, that's good to know!
Regards,
Josephine
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Hmm
I now know the address of Edwin 'Ted' Edwards in 1949 , He died about 1976
His daughter Florence was at this address, and his wife Alice proabably was too - I don't have a death date for her.
I'm not really sure that I would get that much oout of this Registration information
I'm sure his sons and other daughter had long left home, and no address know for them at this date
Bob
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Hi All
I'm Canadian by birth and did not know about this National Registration until I started digging around for information on my grandparents who emigrated to Canada (and Saskatchewan) from Wales. Through all of this I was able to identify dates of birth, ages (in 1940), placesof birth and an estimate of the years they had been married (my grandmother indicated she had been a 'housewife' for 37 years). As I have some doubts about my father's actual relationship to the grandparents I came to know he may have been adopted or transfered from Wales), I am considering accessing the file again for his details. Unfortuneately, he passed in 1994 so I will take my chances.
Cheers
Art
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welshlinks has an ancestor who came to Canada at age 15...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,338520.msg2181416.html#msg2181416
am wondering if he was a home child, or if there is any new information found about him...
welshlinks hasn't been on in some time, but perhaps reposting, we can get an answer as KarenM can perhaps find more information now...J.J.