Thanks for the help! Summary of responses to "People search in Canada"

From: Cunningham, Emily (EGCunningham@KSLAW.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 11:53:54 PDT

Thanks to everyone for the helpful responses, I sure appreciate it. I've looked at everything that was suggested and still can't find my guy. It's possible that he's not listed, but it also seems that Canada is much more strict regarding the privacy of its citizens and companies cannot buy and sell personal data quite so readily. I'm listing the responses I received here below:

I'm working on a course on people searching right now, and have paid some attention to it in the past Genie Tyburskie at the Virtual Chase has tons of great references.

I'm afraid the upshot is that there is no equivalent service for Canada, at least that I know of. On the other hand, phone directories often pan out. I tracked someone in ontario down that way recently.
                                                                                                                                                                
Having done this exercise myself recently I can tell you that Canada's laws are much stricter than the US's. Below is some info that may be of help, however, it doesn't cover the personal level that an Autotrack or Accurint service does. If you do find a better site please share ; - )

FP Advisor, a service of FPInfomart (www.fpinformart.com), provides a Person Search that retrieves records from five sources covering Canadian public and private companies: Financial Post Corporate Surveys, Financial Post Directory of Directors, Canadian Federal Corporations and Directors, ProFile Canada, and Nexport Media's Canadian Trade Index.
                                                                                                                                                                
If you know the person's name and province, try www.canada411.ca
                                                                                                                                                                
I recently found someone using the Canadian telephone directories. Have you tried that?
 
Here is one...
http://ontarioor.findlinks.com/
                                                                                                                                                                

Thanks again!
Emily
Emily G. Cunningham
Research Specialist
King & Spalding, LLP
1100 Louisiana, Ste 4000
Houston, TX 77002
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Fax: 713.751.3290
Email: egcunningham@kslaw.com

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