New Brunswick Adoption Records

NEW BRUNSWICK RECORDS NOW OPEN

NEW BRUNSWICK ADOPTION RECORDS ARE OPEN AS OF APRIL 1 2018.
Forms available at the following link:
http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/social_development/promos/adoption.html/

1.  Post Adoption Disclosure

Non-identifying information is available to natural parents, adoptees, and other natural family members. New Brunswick also maintains a passive registry and staff will also conduct active searches on behalf of adult adoptees and natural parents.  There is no charge for this service however, searches can take up to two years or more.

Post Adoption Disclosure Services
Sartain MacDonald Building
Floor: 4, P. O. Box 6000
Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1
Phone: (506) 453-2001

Also try:

Parent Finders New Brunswick
1496 Route 103, Unit 2
Wakefield, NB
E7M 3W8

Email:  parentfindersnb@gmail.com or macrouse@nbnet.nb.ca

Telephone 506-328-9175

2.  Obtain your Hospital Records

Mothers can call the Medical Records department of the hospital in which the birth took place to obtain your hospital chart with respect to prenatal care, labour and delivery, post natal care, hospital stay, etc.  Mothers should also apply for their child’s hospital record.  (Hint:  Do not use the word “adopted” if possible,  and if asked why records are required the answer is “for my personal record”.)

3.  Maternity Home Records

Mothers who resided in Maternity Homes may apply to the organization which ran the home for any records which may have survived:

For Salvation Army Homes contact:

Salvation Army Archives
26 Howden Road, Scarborough, Ontario
M1R 3E4    Telephone:  416-285-4344

4. Cross Border Adoption/Baby Trafficking to the United States

Many children from the Maritimes were trafficked to the USA for adoption…here is some information re US Immigration http://www.us-immigration.com/freedom-information-privacy-act-facts/

See Karen Balcom’s book “The Traffic in Babies: Cross Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada 1930-1972. http://www.amazon.ca/Traffic-Babies-Cross-Border-Baby-Selling-1930-1972/dp/0802096131/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363455255&sr=8-2