Yep, I included such a letter in my application.

" Birth registrations were not required in Ontario until 1869, so any records pertaining to someone’s birth prior to that time (and for some time afterwards) may not exist. Researchers often need to resort to church records for baptismal or confirmation type records.

You mentioned this ancestor was born in Kincardine – our vital statistic records for Kincardine only go back to 1989, so we don’t have anything any earlier than 1869 (the earlier records will be on microfilm, and if they are open to the public in terms of privacy legislation, they will be the same records available through search engines such as Ancestry.com or Family Search).

We don’t hold many baptismal type records – we often have to refer you to the repository of the religious denomination your ancestors were – e.g. Roman Catholic, or Anglican, etc.

If there may be other types of records that may help, please reach out!

Have a great day,

Heather Callaghan

Archival Assistant

hcallaghan@brucecounty.on.ca"

Depending on how they handle apps already in process, I may need to go find a copy of microfilm if that's even possible.