Description: This page details the required process for obtaining a death certificate. Here you will find locations where this service may be obtained, an overview of required information, and expected turnaround in processing the death certificate application. For your added convenience you can download from this page the required application form for obtaining a death certificate.

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

How Can I 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.
2 Masonic Terrace, Clarenville, NL.
Buffett Building, Main Street, Grand Bank, NL.
Fraser Mall, 230 Airport Blvd., Gander, NL.
9 Queensway, Grand Falls-Windsor, NL.
The Noton Building, 1 Riverside Drive, Corner Brook, NL.
35 Alabama Drive, Stephenville, NL.
Viking Mall, St. Anthony, NL.
Thomas Building, 13 Churchill 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 a signed letter or application.

Click here to display an application form (PDF: 294 KB) which you may print.

Send letter or form to Vital Statistics as the following mailing address:

Vital Statistics
Government Service Centre
Department of Government Services
5 Mews Place
P.O. Box 8700
St. John's, NL A1B 4J6

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.