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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
Adoptive Families Association of BC	British Columbia	Burnaby
Adoption Council of Canada		Ottawa

Adoption Agency

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

Foster care agency

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

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

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Brazil - misc trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
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
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
China	604	618	800	1112	1001	973	608	662	431	451	472
Miscellaneous	197	165	125	111	108	113	109	86	279	360	261
Haiti	125	161	98	150	159	115	123	88	148	141	172
United States of America	78	65	53	74	81	102	96	94	182	253	148
Russian Federation	148	142	146	92	106	88	95	96	91	121	102
Vietnam	76	132	84	45			34	82	111	159	139
South Korea	64	94	98	73	97	97	102	50	98	93	98
Ethiopia		15	13	14	34	31	61	134	187	170	63
Phillipines	82	63	43	58	62	70	53	90	118	86	88
India	79	113	127	70	37	41	36	45	54	59	55
Ukraine	28	46	37	23	16	39	23	45	57	65	46
Colombia	27	36	38	37	38	18	31	34	53	41	62
Kazakhstan			15	8			10	37	48	56	48
Jamaica	53	42	37	43	23	22	19	20	22	30	18
Thailand	49	35	38	38	40	21	21	14	18		23
South Africa					8		9	16	18	37	13
Taiwan	18	18	19	26	15	30	12	10			16
Pakistan				9	7	17	19	18			27
Belarus	24	30	41	50	32
Ghana	26	14	5	11	12	15		16			5
Cambodia	21	19	22	23	14	10	10
Georgia (country)	25	19	30	25	6
Guyana			13	19	14	8	7	8
Bulgaria				11	10	10	11	5			5
Liberia						10	16	20
Mexico					5		9	9			12
Romania	59	25	15	8
Guatemala	68	22
United Kingdom											18
Armenia			13	12	10			9
Democratic Republic of the Congo					8	11					6
Lesotho											12
Uganda											10
North Korea			6	24
Nepal								12
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines			10	7		5
Mali											7
Brazil						6	7
Nigeria						6	7
Poland	15				6
Iran											5
Kenya											5
Peru											5
Swaziland											5
Moldova				7	6
Sri Lanka								7
Ecuador								6
Albania							7
Hong Kong						8
El Salvador						5
Total	1866	1874	1926	2180	1955	1871	1535	1713	1915	2122	1946

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
United States of America		2	3	1	6	1	3	4	1	3		9
Finland					1						1
United Kingdom	1			1	1	1
Switzerland			1	2
Sweden			1
Total	1	2	5	4	8	2	3	4	1	3	1	9

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

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
Bangladesh - war babies (1971)
Violence against women - dead baby scam	2003-01-14
System under duress; Shortage of social workers, foster parents cited	2007-01-30
Provincial care under fire as 15-month-old foster child hospitalized	2009-03-06
Canadian parents raise concerns	2009-03-19
Moratorium Imposed on Adoptions from Nepal	2010-06-04
Alberta reveals 10 foster care deaths	2012-04-14

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