Undertakers

[zetlander]

Spent a long time searching for the Burial of a great-uncle who died in 1957 (in Ontario) - no luck form enquiries to various cemeteries.
I Googled and got a list of all the Undertakers in the town where he lived.
 
Chose one at random and it came up trumps - they gave me the address where great-uncle and his wife died - the cause of death - their dates of birth - dates of death - place of burial.
The Undertakers also had the names of the parents of the deceased which confirmed they were the right ones.
(only direct descendants of the deceased can get a copy of the full Death Certificate n Canada - others only get a certificate with name - date of death - marital status. (cause of death not given.)

[Girl Guide]

Gosh, that was a lucky pot shot then.    Found the right undertakers first go.  Sounds like you got all the information you needed without having to obtain a death certificate.

Seems Canada has different rules with regard to death certificates then.  Not sure why they need to do that but presumably they have their reasons.

[zetlander]

Gosh, that was a lucky pot shot then.    Found the right undertakers first go.  Sounds like you got all the information you needed without having to obtain a death certificate.

Seems Canada has different rules with regard to death certificates then.  Not sure why they need to do that but presumably they have their reasons.

thanks!
Yes I was lucky - one of the undertakers on the list had the same unusual surname as my college friend - and it came up trumps.

Canada seem to have very strict rules re who has access to certificates.

Having had invaluable information from the Undertakers I wonder if they could help with people's research in this country.  A bit pot luck of course but it may save the expense of buying a certificate.

[aghadowey]

Lots of places have quite limited access for purchasing certificates and restrict purchase to close relatives, etc. unless it's an historic certificate (dates for this may vary- sometimes death certificates over 25 or 50 years old but sometimes anything less than 100 years is restricted).

[Chris Doran]

I recently noticed a supplier of things like MI lists saying that their transcriptions now omit deaths less than 25 years ago. Moral: don't throw away those old CDs!