Ontario long form birth certificates: What info do they contain?

[penta]

OK, so. I can find, online, a summary of what the short form birth certificate in Ontario contains so far as fields/what info is on the thing.

However, the Ontario.ca website on the matter just says that the long form birth certificate is...longer. Not real helpful, guys!

Reason I'm asking:

For an RP I'm involved in (based off of "Ender's Game"), one of the students was raised by their dad. Who sucked at the whole "being a parent" thing in numerous ways. So my character had the bright idea (they have a crush on the target character to motivate them) of seeing about helping find their mom, who the target character never knew. The plot is largely "for the d'awwws", so to speak.

One of the *obvious* questions as we start this mini-plot is "What info would be on the character's birth certificate?"

Well, character was born in Toronto, neither of us IRL is Canadian, hence the question here. Also, since I'm the GM (of sorts) of this plot, I figured a handy GM trick would be to draw up a text copy of the full birth certificate.

Sources searched:

Google Ontario "birth certificates" "long form"

http://www.ontario.ca/government/birth-certificates

Comments

[thalia]

From here:

"The Long Form is a Certified Copy of the Birth Registration. It contains the individual's name, date of birth, birthplace, sex, location of birth, parents’ names, parents’ date of birth, mother's mailing address at the time of birth, number of children born to this mother prior, parent's birthplace, weight of the child at birth, attendant at the birth, date of registration, registration number and the date issued."

[penta]

How did I miss that? *facepalm*

Thanks for the info!

[dorothean]

According to the website you linked to, the long form birth certificate is simply a copy of the original birth registration form, certified by a government official.

And you can register a new baby online: Newborn Registration Service.

There is a FAQ section with a list of information you will need to have on hand before completing the registration. I assume that all of this information appears on the registration, although of course I don't know in what order. You can probably get a better idea of how it's formatted (e.g. the rules for entering names) by going through the online registration and seeing how it asks you to enter the information. I don't think this will cause any problems for Ontario since the parent(s) has/have to certify it at the end before it's valid.