It's the 20th anniversary of the Directeur de l’état civil
This year marks the Directeur de l'état civil's 20th anniversary. The office was established by the government on January 1, 1994, when the Civil Code of Québec came into force.
A single officer of civil status and a single register
From the early 1600s until 1993, civil status was administered by thousands of public officers, mainly ministers of religion and prothonotaries.
On January 1, 1994, the registrar of civil status became the sole officer of civil status in Québec. On this date, 17 million acts entered in 425,000 registers in 3,600 different locations were transferred to the Directeur de l’état civil. At the same time, all papers were centralized in a single register, the civil status register.
Since then, the Directeur de l'état civil has not stopped developing organizationally to ensure the integrity of the civil status register and to provide citizens with quality services adapted to their needs.
The slogan 20 years at the heart of citizens' lives highlights the Directeur de l’état civil's involvement with citizens and the central role the office plays in terms of collective memory, identity, the exercise of civil rights and access to government programs and services.
Reviewed: 2014-01-24
