Seeking elusive Canadian birth records

[TitanicTarn]

Hello! I'm a newbie. I'm hitting brick walls trying to track down birth records of my grandmother Elizabeth Faulkner and great grandfather Arthur Newton Faulkner ( married to Francis Amy Coyle) ; both mother's side) . Is it possible some birth records are not online? They were both from Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. This was when Canada was part of the British Empire. I do have my great grandfather's American citizenship naturalization form from 1918- it lists his country of origin as Great Britain, but he was Canadian.
I'm hoping to apply for duel US/Canadian heritage citizenship so need to find documentation they were born in Canada. But scouring the internet, I came up with nothing. Does this mean no record exists? My grandmother was born in 1909, and my mother suspects being a very large poor family , most everyone was likely born at home and perhaps no government records were made of the births

[Pam Downes]

Hello, and welcome to British-Genealogy.

In spite of having relatives living there, I'm slightly out of my comfort zone with Canadian research, so I started at the beginning.
https://www.canadainternational.gc.c....aspx?lang=eng

Clicking on the 'vital statistics' link, then Nova Scotia, and scrolling down the page to a genealogy link I finally found this page.
https://www.novascotia.ca/sns/access.../genealogy.asp

However the first thing you need to do is to find the family on the Canadian census(es). 1911 for starters.
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census...ages/1911.aspx

Presumably you know when your great-grandfather was born, so you could try searching for him in 1901 as well. Allow for variants such as Falkner.

There's no birth registration in England or Wales for a Arthur Newton Faulkner between 1860 and 1900. Haven't checked Scotland or Ireland.

Pam

[TitanicTarn]

Thank you very much!

[Pamelawagster]

There are some records on Family search,draft registration,1920 & 1930 census.other records too.

Draft for WW1 gives 17 November 1884 as DOB. WW2 has 1885.

There is also quite a large tree too.

[Pam Downes]

There are some records on Family search,draft registration,1920 & 1930 census.other records too.

Draft for WW1 gives 17 November 1884 as DOB. WW2 has 1885.

There is also quite a large tree too.

There's a slight difference in the date of birth of Arthur in the 1901 Canadian census, but I think the difference between him saying country of origin Great Britain even though he was allegedly born in Canada (a fact seemingly confirmed on the census form) can be found on the form in the 'race' and 'nationality' columns.
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census...ages/1901.aspx

Name spelt as Falkner in1891.
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census...ages/1891.aspx

Note the apparent difference in the mother's name between 1891 and 1901. Arthur's mother may have died, and his father remarried. On the other hand it wouldn't be the first census where a name has been wrong. "smile5:

Pam

[Pam Downes]

Having finally twigged how to use the results in the Nova Scotia vital statistics link I gave in post #2, I've found a marriage for Archibald Faulkner and Louisa Pemberton in 1874. Obviously, I haven't sent for the marriage certificate (perhaps an actual marriage certificate such as we know in the UK didn't exist at that time in Canada/Nova Scotia). But details and an image are available on Familysearch.
Added: image number 151 of 611.

Pam