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Death Certificate

Vital Statistics has birth, marriage and death records from 1892 to the present. Please contact our office at (709) 729-3308. For records prior to 1892, please contact the provincial archives (the Rooms) at (709) 757-8088.

How to Acquire a Death Certificate

You may apply in person at any of the following Government Service Centres or departmental offices:

• 5 Mews Place, St. John's, NL.
• 7-9 Roddick Crescent, Harbour Grace, NL.
• 8A Myers Avenue, Clarenville, NL.
• 1 Harris Drive, Marystown, NL.
• Fraser Mall, 230 Airport Blvd., Gander, NL.
• 3 Cromer Avenue, Grand Falls-Windsor, NL.
• Mount Bernard Avenue, Sir Richard Squires Building, Corner Brook, NL.
• 35 Alabama Drive, Stephenville, NL.
• Viking Mall, St. Anthony, NL.
• 2 Tenth Street, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL.
• 118 Humphrey Road, Bruno Plaza, Labrador City, NL.

If you apply for the death certificate in St. John's, there is approximately a 20 minute waiting period. If you apply in Gander, Corner Brook, Clarenville or Grand Falls, you are still able to get it in the same day. If you apply at any of the remaining offices, there is approximately a three day waiting period.

You may also apply for a death certificate by sending an application.

Click here to display an application form (266 KB) which you may print.

Send form to Vital Statistics.

Be sure to include the following information:

• The deceased full name and sex
• Date of Death
• Place of Death
• Age at time of death
• Last address of deceased

Death Certificates are available in only long form, framing size. There is no fee for a death certificate issued within the first year of death. There is a $20.00 fee for any death certificate issued after one year from the date of death. Cheques or money orders may be made payable to the Newfoundland Exchequer Account. If you are paying by credit card, we accept only Visa and MasterCard. We require the card number, expiry date and signature of the card holder.

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