While fiddling around on the internet, I was led to the website of the wonderful Nanaimo Family History Society in British Columbia, Canada.

Canadian newspaper obituaries usually give many details of a person's life - where they were born, names of their parents, etc, and the Nanaimo FHS have indexed obituaries from the paper and other sources from 1988-2004.
Read all about it and start searching at https://nanaimofamilyhistory.ca/nanaimo-obituaries/

It lists people born and dying all over the world, not those just who were either born elsewhere and died on Canada, or vice versa.