How to Find People in Canada

Have you been attempting to find a friend or an associate in Canada? Or may be you need to trace a close family member in this country. But you are literally clueless about the sources and methods you need to try for locating the individual. Stop worrying and follow a few steps systematically and in order to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion.

Access LAC

LAC or the Library and Archives of Canada helps to provide genealogical information about the Canadian residents, census data and several other types of relevant documents. To find out about a person living in Canada, write an application to this organization supplying all the information that you have about the individual. It would be better if you visit the office physically and start your investigation. You will also get to know about the proceedings required to track a certain person in the country.
Address your mails and queries at:

Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4
Canada
Call LAC at: (1-866) 578-7777
 

Search by Social Insurance Number

The Social Insurance Number or SIN is a nine digit numerical code assigned to every person working in Canada. This number is helpful because it assures the legal existence of the person and also makes the person eligible to get government benefits and programs. Know more from: http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/sc/sin/index.shtml
 

The SIN code can be easily used to trace a person in Canada. Even if you are unaware of any other details about the person the SIN will smoothly way through the search process and you will get the required information in no time. To find a person with SIN write to:
 

Service Canada
Ottawa (Ontario) Canada
K1A 0J9
Att. Canada Enquiry Centre

Search Social Networking Sites and Communities

Searching a person in social networking sites would be a very good idea. There are a number of popular social networking portals which have accounts of millions of people all over the world. Log on to such a site and enter the name of the person in the search box. All results similar to the name you have entered will be displayed before you. Searching the communities and websites may also turn out to be fruitful to you. Type in the name in the search field and run a search. You will see the websites that are related to the name or are having the name in it. Carefully go through all types of websites and you never know when you will bump upon the right person.

Browse Phone Directories

Several types of phone directories are available in Canada. While some are online, some are also available offline. The online directories help you to search through their databases with information as less as a name. In no time all kind of basic details like full name of the person, present address, contact number and other kind of records will be revealed to you.

The offline phone directories may be collected from a phone company. Both offline and online phone directories contain information about phone numbers of landline, cell phone, business phone, fax and even unlisted phones. Try the yellow pages and the local white pages to get the desired results.

Online search

Several websites provide services like proximity search, reverse phone search, business search and may more. For processing a proximity Search, enter details like name, city, street, province/ postal code/ any landmark and click “Find”. This search will allow you to know about persons who are living around the reference points that you have provided.
 

The reverse phone search method will be beneficial if it is only the phone number that you have. Input the phone number with the correct area code and the database will hunt through millions of phone records. Once your request data matches, the database will display the researched details. You can also try searching for various types of people’s records depending on the data you possess.