Canada

Country Code: CA
Area: 6,204,808 sq mi (9,985,670km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 1,165 Billion Dollar
Population: 32,947,000

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country	From	To
Secrétariat à l'adoption internationale (SAI)	Central authority of	Canada

Organizations based in Canada:

Adoption Advocates

Organization	State/Province	City
Adoption Council of Canada		Ottawa
Adoptive Families Association of BC	British Columbia	Burnaby

Adoption Agency

Organization	State/Province	City
Access Adoption Services	Ontario	Ottawa
Adoption Way (Canada office)	Ontario	Mississauga
Adoptionworx Canada, Inc.	Ontario	Toronto
Beacon of Hope International Foundation, Inc.	New Brunswick	Fredericton
Canadian Advocates for the Adoption of Children (CAFAC)	Manitoba	Minnedosa
Children's Bridge	Ontario	Nepean
Choices adoption and counseling	British Columbia	Victoria
Cornerstone Adoption Agency	Ontario	Scarborough
Enfance sans frontieres	Quebec	Ste-Dorothée
Enfants du Monde (Canada)	Quebec	Montréal
Family Outreach International	Ontario	Ottawa
Imagine Adoption	Ontario	Cambridge
Kids Link International Adoption Agency	Ontario	Cambridge
Kuan-Yin Foundation	Ontario	Toronto
Les enfants du Mandé	Quebec	Brossard
Loving Heart International Adoption Agency	Ontario	Toronto
Mission of T.E.A.R.S.	Ontario	Toronto
Open Arms to International Adoption	Ontario	Toronto
Parents Sans Frontières	Quebec	Varennes
Société d'adoption québécoise une grande famille	Quebec	Baie d'Urfé
Société Formons Une Famille Inc	Quebec	Montreal
Soleil des Nations	Quebec	CP Courville
Sunrise Family Services Society	British Columbia	North Vancouver
Terre des Hommes Pour Les Enfants Inc. - Quebec	Quebec
World View Adoption Association	Ontario	Toronto

Foster care agency

Organization	State/Province	City
Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto (CCAS)	Ontario	Toronto
Children’s Aid Society of Toronto	Ontario	Toronto
Native Child and Family Services of Toronto	Ontario	Toronto

Foundation

Organization	State/Province	City
God's Littlest Angels Canada	Alberta	Okotoks

Governmental Organization

Organization	State/Province	City
Secrétariat à l'adoption internationale (SAI)	Quebec	Montreal

Miscellaneous

Organization	State/Province	City
Focus on the Family Canada	British Columbia	Langley
Global Reach Children's Fund	Ontario	Cambridge

Orphan care

Organization	State/Province	City
Hands of Mercy Christian Outreach International	Ontario	Fort Erie

Pregnancy counseling center

Organization	State/Province	City
Canadian Association of Pregnancy Support Services	Alberta	Red Deer

Cases:

Abuse cases

Organization	Province	City
Alex, Russian boy adopted in Canada
Boy adopted by a British Columbia man	British Columbia	Lower Mainland area
Boy adopted by couple in Manitoba	Manitoba	St Lazara
Boy in foster care in Alberta	Alberta	Rocky Mountain House
Boy in foster care in Alberta (infant)	Alberta
Boy in foster care in Edmonton, Alberta	Alberta	Edmonton
Boys adopted by their aunt and uncle in Blackstock, Ontario	Ontario	Blackstock
Boys in Foster care in Calgary, Canada	Alberta	calgary
Cameron Ouskan	Manitoba	Gillam
Children adopted by couple in Quebec, Canada	Quebec	Becancour
Children in foster care with Garry Prokopishin	Alberta	Calgery
Children in Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children	Nova Scotia	Halifax
Girl adopted by couple from La Salle, Manitoba	Manitoba	La Salle
Girl adopted by couple in Calgary, Canada	Alberta	Calgary
Girl adopted by woman in Ontario, Canada	Ontario	Paris
Jason Carpenter	Alberta
Jeffrey Baldwin and his sister	Ontario	Toronto
Karamjeet Kaur Singh	British Columbia	Fraser Valley
Katelynn Sampson	Ontario	Toronto
Korvette Lynn Crier	Alberta	Hobbema
Nadine Catherine Beaulieu	Manitoba	Winnipegosis
Sacha Vallée	Quebec	Verdun
Sherry Charlie	British Columbia	Port Alberni
Sophie Fitzpatrick	Quebec	Chelsea
Vanessa Pearce	British Columbia	Nelson

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Brazil - misc trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
Dominican Republic - "Monde-Enfant"	2015-09-01
El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case	1979-01-01
Ethiopia - misc child trafficking cases	2009-01-01
Ethiopia - Haregwain Berhane case	2009-03-18
Ethiopia - Joshua Dawit case	2006-12-01
Ghana - misc child trafficking cases	2010-06-22
Greece - child trafficking case	1989-01-01
Guatemala / Mexico - Flor de María Soto Hernández	1997-01-01
India - misc Child trafficking cases	1995-01-01
Laos - misc child trafficking case	2012-02-06
Liberia - Misc. trafficking cases	2006-01-01
Liberia - West African Children Support Network case	2008-11-01
Mexico - misc trafficking articles case	1997-01-01
Pakistan - misc child trafficking cases	2009-01-01
Poland - misc trafficking cases	1989-01-01
Vietnam - misc trafficking articles case	1998-01-01
Vietnam - An Giang Province - Le Quoc Binh case	1995-01-01
Vietnam - Mary Payne Nguyen case	1995-01-01

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
China	604	618	800	1112	1001	973	608	662	334	377	424	288	254	216	157
United States of America	78	65	53	74	81	102	96	94	167	204	128	192	152	126	123
Ethiopia		15	13	14	34	31	61	134	177	145	100	143	93	39	27
Haiti	125	161	98	150	159	115	123	88	111	98	135	77	31	34	33
Vietnam	76	132	84	45			34	82	93	157	158	89	43	63	56
Russian Federation	148	142	146	92	106	88	95	96	74	79	70	67	52	66	16
Republic of Korea (South Korea)	64	94	98	73	97	97	102	50	80	70	71	60	55	28	52
Phillipines	82	63	43	58	62	70	53	90	107	56	69	67	64	149	68
India	79	113	127	70	37	41	36	45	44	52	46	44	36	44	36
Miscellaneous	197	165	125	111	108	113	109	86	2	1	7	9	2		7
Ukraine	28	46	37	23	16	39	23	45	47	52	46	30	39	38	22
Colombia	27	36	38	37	38	18	31	34	43	35	49	60	22	52	17
Kazakhstan			15	8			10	37	53	36	42	22	2	8	15
Jamaica	53	42	37	43	23	22	19	20	20	23	14	18	11	10	24
Thailand	49	35	38	38	40	21	21	14	16	5	15	25	9	42	7
Taiwan	18	18	19	26	15	30	12	10	8	20	15	16	19	9	8
Pakistan				9	7	17	19	18	9	12	27	16	18	32	8
Democratic Republic of the Congo					8	11			5	4	9	26	20	20	1
South Africa					8		9	16	18	32	15	2	3	21	18
Ghana	26	14	5	11	12	15		16	12	7	7	11	3	15	1
Guyana			13	19	14	8	7	8	11	10	5	5	13	23	20
United Kingdom									6	8	18	13	9	5	17
Mexico					5		9	9	4	4	11	3	17	2
Bulgaria				11	10	10	11	5	2	9	7	11	3	5	10
Belarus	24	30	41	50	32				1						2
Cambodia	21	19	22	23	14	10	10		3	2		2	3	4	1
Romania	59	25	15	8					5	7		2	5	6	3
Lesotho										2	12	9	12	2	10
Hong Kong						8			1	9	3	5	14	4	9
Nigeria						6	7		8	1	3	16	2	10	4
Guatemala	68	22							4	3	2	4	4	3	3
Belize									1	1	4	20	5	2	1
Brazil						6	7		1	8	5		10	9	2
Liberia						10	16	20	7		2			3	2
Japan									2	1	4	9	11	15	14
Georgia (country)	25	19	30	25	6					2		1
Kenya									9	4	5	7	4	6	1
Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea)			6	24					8	11	1	1	1
Zambia									5	9	6	2	4	5	2
Uganda									3	2	12	5	2	3
Mali									2	3	8	4	5
Poland	15				6					3	2	4	6	2	3
Armenia			13	12	10			9	3	4				2
Peru									3	4	7	3	4	2	4
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines			10	7		5			3	7	1	3	1	3	1
Sri Lanka								7	5	5	5	1	1	1	3
Nepal								12	13	2		1
Honduras									1	5		7	4	4	3
Rwanda										5	3	7	2	2	1
Tanzania										3	4	7	2	7	3
Trinidad & Tobago									3	2	3	2	6	2	1
Cameroon									6		4	1	4	6	7
Ecuador								6	8		5			1	1
Malawi									2		1	4	4	1
Albania							7		1	2	1	2	2	5	3
Iran									1	3	5	3		5	3
Zimbabwe										2	1	3	4
El Salvador						5					5	3		1	1
								4	4	2	2		2	1
Malaysia									1	7		3		4
Sudan										2	1	4	2	2
Tunisia									5	3	4			1	1
Fiji									4	4		2	1		1
Portugal									2	1	1	3	2
Swaziland									1	8	2
France										1		6	1	1
Côte d’Ivoire									1	3	1	3	1		2
Costa Rica												3	4	2
Niger									1	1	2	1	3	2	2
Lithuania									1	2		3	2	2	8
Guinea									1	3	4		1	7	2
Moroccoa										2			5	8	4
Indonesia										5			3	5	2
Bangladesh									2	1	2	1	2	2
Burundi											3	3	1		1
Greece									1			6		2
Ireland										3	1	1	2	2	2
Eritrea											2	1	3	1
Sierra Leone									3	2	1	2		2
Turkey									2		1	4		2
Hungary										3	2	1	1		1
New Zealand									2	1	3	1
Germany									2		1	1	2		1
Chile										3		2	1	1	3
Nicaragua										1		2	2
Saint Lucia									1	1		2	1	2	2
Republic of The Congo (Brazzaville)									1		2	2			1
Madagascar									1				3	2	5
Grendada										1		1	2		3
Latvia										3	1	1		1
Bolivia										3	2				1
Moldova				7	6										1
Argentina											2	2			1
Namibia									2	2		1
Algeria													3	2	1
Netherlands										1	2	1
Australia									1		2	1		1
Egypt											1		2	6
Mozambique											1		2		1
Paraguay									2	1			1	2	1
Singapore										1			2	1
Czech Republic									1				2
Jordan									3			1		1	1
Laos											2	1
Dominica									1		1		1
Bermuda									1	1			1
Bhutan									1		2
Chad												1	1	1
Venezuela												1	1		3
Togo											1		1		1
Lebanon												2
Kosovo										1			1
Estonia											1	1		2
Senegal									1				1
Gabon										1		1
Israel										1		1		2	2
Croatia									1			1
Seychelles									1			1
Spain									1			1			1
Cyprus										2
Turks and Caicos Islands										2
Uruguay										2
Burkina Faso									1	1					4
Myanmar									2
American Samoa													1
Barbados													1
Cayman Islands													1
Saudi Arabia													1
Somalia													1	1
Dominican Republic													1	3	5
Brunei												1
Djibouti												1
Macau												1
Canada												1		1
Antigua and Barbuda											1
Mongolia											1
Samoa											1
Switzerland											1
Equatorial Guinea											1				1
Botswana										1
Vanuatu										1
Benin										1				2
Iraq									1
Mauretania									1
Palestine Authorities									1
Papua New Guinea									1
Surinam									1
Sweden									1
Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation									1					2	1
Central African Republic															1
Finland															1
Kyrgystan															2
Marshall Islands															1
Slovakia															2
Total	1866	1874	1926	2180	1955	1871	1535	1713	1614	1695	1660	1514	1162	1243	905

Source:
Adoption Council of Canada

Note:

Only countries exporting six or more children are presented in these statistics.

Adoption exports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
United States of America		2	3	1	6	1	3	4	1	3		9	5	4	5	5	1
Switzerland			1	2						2	2	1
Finland					1						1
United Kingdom	1			1	1	1
Canada												1		1
Sweden			1
New Zealand															1
Total	1	2	5	4	8	2	3	4	1	5	3	11	5	5	6	5	1

This information is compiled from the figures as reported by the receiving countries.

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
Alberta reveals 10 foster care deaths	2012-04-14
Moratorium Imposed on Adoptions from Nepal	2010-06-04
Canadian parents raise concerns	2009-03-19
Provincial care under fire as 15-month-old foster child hospitalized	2009-03-06
System under duress; Shortage of social workers, foster parents cited	2007-01-30
Violence against women - dead baby scam	2003-01-14
BABY-SELLING TRADE SUSPECTED IN POLAND	1993-08-22
Alberta gave approval to 75 p.c. of baby adoption applications	1948-05-11
Bangladesh - war babies (1971)