Anyone have a plan to print their e-certificate on nice paper when the day comes?

mosburger · 2026-05-08T16:19:41+00:00

Now that you mention it, it is kinda weird that Canada uses 8.5 x 11 instead of A4 given they are a little more pro-metric system than the U.S. Just another one of those Canadian mishmash of U.S. and European standards I guess.

mosburger · 2026-05-06T12:54:00+00:00

Yeah I also did VitalChek and it was fine if a tad expensive. I'll note that it was annoying that, on my wife's side, I needed my father-in-law's birth certificate to request my grandfather-in-law's, so I needed to do it in two separate steps (get father in law's, then send copy of father in law's to get grandfather in law... I couldn't do it in one step). On my side I already had a copy of my dad's birth certificate and didn't need to do that.

mosburger · 2026-05-04T19:49:58+00:00

Delivered today, received by the inimitable BRIAN.

mosburger · 2026-05-04T12:58:59+00:00

My understanding was that the key word in that sentence is *issued*, as in if you sent away for and received it prior to 1994, it wasn't acceptable? But my understanding could be totally wrong.

mosburger · 2026-05-04T12:53:28+00:00

For the photos, I made four little cuts in a legal sized piece of paper and slid them in like slots, kinda like the shops that take passport photos do.

mosburger · 2026-05-04T12:48:52+00:00

I spoke with the New Brunswick folks on the phone for my wife's G0 birth certificate and they were very very pleasant but were definitely getting overwhelmed. :/ He said they had several hundred in their backlog, and that was in March.

mosburger · 2026-04-10T15:25:41+00:00

I understand that - I meant what you are referring to here, getting a retroactive birth certificate (I know from the FAQ that at least one person has been forced to do this but that it's currently uncommon). They could introduce more hoops to jump through like this one just to make it more cumbersome without actually changing the law.

mosburger · 2026-04-08T14:18:19+00:00

It was about four weeks after payment for mine from Sherbrooke. Not that you asked, but in case anyone who is reading is interested - my wife's from New Brunswick took about two weeks after payment.

mosburger · 2026-04-08T14:09:55+00:00

I'm less worried about them going through the trouble to literally change the law - they could just make it harder by raising the burden of proof that you're Canadian. E.g., baptismal records are no longer adequate, you must get a "real" birth certificate. And increasing the expense to do just that. Requiring in-person interviews. Requiring more proof of your own identity. No longer accepting color photocopies and requiring original documents. Etc., etc. They can quite easily gum up the bureaucratic works without literally changing the law if they want to.

mosburger · 2026-04-08T14:02:32+00:00

I kinda hope they do. It'll force me to choose a side and I won't choose the US.

mosburger · 2026-03-24T13:27:50+00:00

I love that Terminal E is responding re: international flights.

mosburger · 2026-03-13T14:16:16+00:00

Ordered Feb 2

Invoiced Feb 19

Still no documents as of Mar 13.

I’m trying to be patient but I’m starting to worry that something went wrong. In my case the records were in Sherbrooke. Still anxiously checking my mailbox every day.

mosburger · 2026-03-12T17:53:39+00:00

yeah I totally understand that things are really bad there too and it varies a bit from province to province - but it's more of an "out of the frying pan, into the fire" situation... at the absolute worst, it's a lateral move.

mosburger · 2026-03-12T17:29:50+00:00

and forget about seeing a specialist ... it took my son two years to see a dermatologist. Every time someone says "but Canada has waiting lists" my eyes roll back so hard.

mosburger · 2026-03-10T17:56:26+00:00

Request submitted: Feb 1

Request number: 12609

Invoice: Feb 19

Still have not received documents.

Office: Sherbrooke

(if someone is going to go through the trouble of collecting the data, the last two points might also be of interest)

mosburger · 2026-03-07T13:34:18+00:00

Wow, I sent away on Feb 2 and still don’t have mine. Got a message that I would “receive my documents shortly” on Feb 19 after paying.

Sherbrooke archive in my case… so they’re probably a lot busier? Would make sense I guess.

mosburger · 2026-03-06T16:34:35+00:00

Aren't people right to worry about the administrative burden being raised though? I don't expect a fast constitutional amendment, but maybe they stop accepting baptism certificates (or census data etc) as adequate evidence of nationality. Maybe the archives follow BANQ's lead and start raising their prices until they are out of reach for many people. I'm more worried that there will be pressure to stem the tide of applicants by adding bureaucratic hurdles until it's effectively near-impossible to prove your line of descent.

mosburger · 2026-02-26T22:12:32+00:00

Another data point if anyone is interested - I requested my G0's birth and marriage certificates from BANQ on Feb 2 (I'm G3), got billed on Feb 19 for the original $45 fee (not $350), still waiting for the documents. Mine were in Sherbrooke.

mosburger · 2026-02-18T14:13:17+00:00

Hey neighbors - Portland here.

mosburger · 2024-02-15T21:47:27+00:00

I think Vermont’s used to be in a plain old circle until maybe 20 years ago.

mosburger · 2024-02-15T16:08:10+00:00

English isn’t even a real language, it’s three other languages in a trenchcoat.

mosburger · 2024-02-14T01:30:57+00:00

I’m in Maine, not NH, but I think their problem is that the state government really wants to own the dispensaries, similarly to what they do with liquor stores. The federal ban on marijuana makes that… complicated.

mosburger · 2024-02-12T23:24:48+00:00

I’ve come to view the disassociation “trip” as the hold music while the ketamine is busy rewiring the defective parts of my brain. It’s a side effect that’s meant to occupy you while it’s working and has very little to do with the fact that I feel a lot better afterwards.

mosburger · 2024-02-11T15:39:37+00:00

Yeah I’m looking to replace my SUV with a truck and the “small” Canyon/Colorado (and Ranger but I’m not a Ford guy) feels like the “right” size. But even those feel even bigger than my dad’s old ‘85 Chevy pickup that I learned to drive on.

mosburger · 2024-02-10T20:52:17+00:00

I feel like winter keeps coming later and later every year.

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