Canadian Birth, Marriage and Death Records for Türkiye

For a Canadian civil status record, the safest assumption is that the apostille office wants the original issued by the vital statistics office. Most of the six offices we checked point that way, and the differences lie in the details.

Global Affairs Canada, which handles records from the eight provinces and territories without their own authority, requires birth certificates issued by a provincial or territorial vital statistics office and does not ask for notarization. British Columbia authenticates only original B.C. Vital Statistics documents. Ontario now lists its vital statistics documents, polymer birth certificates included, among the documents that need no notarization.

The provincial details

Alberta issues the apostille for the signature of the director of Vital Statistics, but a laminated or wallet-size certificate is not usable; an updated original has to be ordered from a registry agent. Quebec sets a date: certificates and copies of acts from the Directeur de l'état civil must have been issued in 2015 or later, so an older certificate is ordered again before the request.

Saskatchewan is the exception to the original-only pattern. It accepts originals issued by Saskatchewan Vital Statistics or a notarized true copy.

Before ordering a new certificate for a marriage registration or a citizenship file in Türkiye, check which of these rules applies to the province that issued it.

Turkish translation

The apostilled certificate is then translated into Turkish in Ankara by translators sworn before a Turkish notary. If the Turkish civil registry or another authority asks for it, a Turkish notary certifies the translation, and that authority decides on acceptance. The table below shows the office for each jurisdiction we have verified.