In Ontario, if a baby is abandoned, their parents can’t be determined, and they’re made a crown ward, what is written in their registration of birth (and on their birth certificate) as far as who their parents are and where they were born? For example, in the case of Angelica-Leslie, if her parents hadn’t been found, what would have been written in the spaces for parents and place of birth?
Please don’t speculate based on how it’s recorded in other locales or how it was recorded in the 1800s; I am only interested in the facts about how this is handled in Ontario (either now or in the recent-ish past; as far back as 1990 or so is fine, and ~1990 would actually be preferable).
The current Act was passed in 1990, and there is a section dealing with registration of an abandoned child: s.16. However, the operative part of that section was repealed in 2004, and the issue is now governed by s. 9(2), which reads:
Filling out that statutory obligation, there are also the Regulations passed under the Vital Stats Act: Law Document English View | Ontario.ca . Section 3(2) of the Regs requires the Registrar General to make every effort to identify the child, but failing that, s. 3(6) applies:
So putting that together, looks like the Registrar General is charged with finding out as much info as possible about a foundling, and registering the child with whatever info they can find. At a guess, I think that means that the entry for parents would be “unknown” and the Registrar Gerneral gets to decide the child’s names.
I think the reference to a “single name” would be for a case where investigation reveals how the parents are, so that would account for the last name, but there would still have to be a given name.
I believe the single name, where eligible, is for someone who comes from a culture with mononymics. I remember reading all odd exceptions when my kids were born.