What is the Date of Issue on my Canadian Birth Certificate?
Your date of birth is self explanitory. The date of registration is the date that the office of vital statistics (or what ever it is called in your Province) actually recieved the registration info. Normally a few days or a few months after you were born. The date your birth certificate was issued is the date under the “Given under my hand….” section. That was the date that the piece of paper you are holding in your hand was issued. Thats the date they were asking for in the passport application. My wife had her purse stolen a few years ago and we had to get a new copy of her birth certificate. What she got was a different document from what she originally had since they had changed it over the years and when we did her passport application it was the date they wanted.
