Free Canadian Adoption Search Registry for adoptees, birthmothers, birthfathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers
LINKS
POST-LEGAL ADOPTION SUPPORT

WINNIPEG MB CANADA







LINKS is a volunteer, non-profit organization, offering support for all members of the triad i.e. adoptee, birthparent, and adoptive parent by providing a free registry and a search service for a minimal fee. We also provide support for grandparents and other relatives who have had family separated by adoption. They are unable to obtain any support or assistance from the Post Adoption Registry of Manitoba so we will include them in our free registry and also offer our search service.

Our goals are: Support - Education - Informing the public - Promoting legislative changes in attitudes, policies, and adoption legislation. This includes working to change the current system of sealed adoption records in Manitoba.

LINKS is kept on-going through the donated time, effort, love, and caring of its members.

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IMPORTANT We have over 700 people who have registered with us, but have moved or changed their e-mail address, telephone number, etc. and we are unable to contact them. Many have been reunited but have not advised us of this. We have sent several hundred e-mails to people who have registered, and have not received a reply. If you are one of these people, please contact us to update your information.

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Provinces and Territories who have passed legislation to open past and future adoption records are British Columbia, Alberta, Newfoundland/Labrador and Ontario.
Manitoba would not make the Adoption Act of 1999 retroactive so the thousands of birthparents and the adoptees who were adopted from the beginning of record keeping until 1999 are being denied their records.

Open adoption records have always been available in Norway, Israel, Finland, Mexico, France, and Saudi Arabia. Since 1930 the following countries opened their birth certificate records retroactively to adoptees and birthparents: Scotland, Russia, England, Sweden, Argentina, Germany, Taiwan, Poland, Argentina, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, South Korea, Brazil and The Netherlands. Open adoption records, available retroactively, for adoptees only are available in the U.S. in the states of (never were sealed) Alaska and Kansas, (after 1998) Alabama, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Tennessee.

Check out the new Act 21 passed by the Alberta Legislature and effective November 1, 2004. It is retroactive and puts into effect most of what Manitoban's have been requesting for years. Take this link to read the new information Alberta Access to adoption information
Important A major flaw has been found in the Alberta law pertaining to the rights of an adult adoptee. To read about this go here

We were advised that discussion on changes to the Adoption Act would begin in late 2004 and completed in 2006. It is now November 2008 and we understand that the wheels are in motion to determine how and when the Act may be ammended. Hopefully we will see some movement by the fall of 2008, however from recent correspondence I am sure nothing is going to happen before 2009.

An article in the Winnipeg Free Press August 8, 2008 mentioned that the Adoption Act, the Child and Family Services Act and the Authorities Act will be rewritten and may be amalgamated into one Act, and that this would be a 2-3 year project. We have been hearing this for the past 3 years. The Post Adoption portion of the Adoption Act can and should be ammended now. Because of all the problems the government is experiencing with other areas of child care, adult adoptees are having to wait in line for something that should have been done years ago.

To view an update (November 2008) on the status of any changes to The Adoption Act visit my blog at



For aboriginal children adopted out of Manitoba and Canada you should register with the following:

First Nations of Southern Manitoba Child & Family Services Authority, 100-696 Portage Ave., Winnipeg MB R3G 0M6 tel: 204-783-9190, toll free: 1-800-665-5762 or fax: 204-783-7996

First Nations of Northern Manitoba Child & Family Services Authority, 206 - 819 Sargent Ave., Winnipeg MB R3E 0B9 tel: 204-942-1842, toll free: 1-866-512-1842 or fax: 204-942-1858

Awasis Agency of Northern Manitoba, 100 - 701 Thompson Drive, Thompson MB R8N 2A2 tel: 204-677-1500, toll free: 1-800-667-4734 (MB only), or fax: 204-778-8428

There are also agencies in The Pas, Norway House, Nelson House and Garden Hill

Metis children and birthfamily should contact the Metis Child, Family and Community Services here





  • WINNIPEG: for assistance call: Roy at 204-257-4742 or

  • BRANDON: for assistance call Vivian at 204-727-1022 or 204-727-3903 or



    Members of the triad who are registering for a search are still being told that they must write a non-identifying letter to the other party. It will be censured to ensure that it does not contain any identifying information, or what the worker considers identifying, and it will be copied and placed on your file in the office. This procedure does not have to be followed and you should be told there is an option. For more information about this violation of privacy go to our page called Do's and Don'ts



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