How long as a Canadian do you have to wait to declare a person missing and dead?

[12345]

So my parents divorced, a long while ago. In the divorce she got my dad's retirement money, but at the time he hadn't retired yet. By the time he had she had moved to another province and people were calling dad wondering where she was to collect the money. As of right now that money is still there and hasn't been touched and just gathering interest. Dad wants me to find her so if she's dead he thinks I should get it as my inheritance, I just want to get his retirement money back to him.

The last information I have on her is from LinkedIn over a decade ago. I have put every variation of her name that I know into the Funeral Home where she was living for every month from that last date. I've looked for Obituaries for any province I know she's lived in each month, for that time. I am fully aware she could be dead, or just moved and married. It's a needle in a haystack.

But here's the thing; you guys find so much that's just out there publicly. I'm willing to do the work to try to find her, but I don't really know how/where to look.

Reasons why I think she's dead:
* The last job entry on LinkedIn is unemployed.
* She never changed back to her maiden name after the divorce because it would have cost her money.
* The fact his retirement money even exists. When she left, she took everything not nailed down she could including things of mine and my fathers.
* Despite living in the same town where her parents are buried, other than regular maintenance it looks like to my father whenever he goes by (every couple of years) he is the only one taking care of and cleaning up their graves.
* Last time dad was through the area my father was told that the person who owns the land now, bought it from my grandfather for a substantial amount, and my grandfather sent that money to my mother. This would have been well before the divorce.
* My father only retired around or shortly after the unemployed date and they tried to find her. The money is still there.

I suppose there is an off-chance she found some millionaire and got married and moved to who knows where, but if it did her name could be literally anything and she could be anywhere. So I'm going to focus on Canada. I called legal aid... and they suggested I call my Provincial Official (Note: So far as I'm aware she has not lived in the province for longer than the date of the unemployment change.). So.

Information I have:
* Her maiden name, her married name.
* Her birthday.
* A LinkedIn not updated for over a decade with her married name.
* A Facebook page that is no longer active and only seems to have 1 person active at all, and they are a completely stranger. (I went through every profile to see if she had posted on them at all either before or after the unemployed date.)

So if you were looking for a possibly dead Canadian what would you do? Like I said earlier I'm willing to do the work, but I don't know where else to look or who to call. Even if it's just "Use this search engine, put your searches this way." or whatever. Unless I win the lottery I can't hire a private investigator so I'm all I've got. Right now my searches are bring up nothing, so any tips would be appreciated. Also please keep in mind the privacy laws in Canada are horrible, and Canada's most famous serial killer has all of his shit locked because 'privacy'.

Dad worked hard for it, I really want to get it for him while he can still enjoy it.

(I know it's not a silly question, didn't know where else to put it though.)

 

[Claude Sigma]

Wouldn't the state try to contact the next of kin to give out the inheritance in the case she died?
They know you're family and they know where you live after all.

 

[12345]

Wouldn't the state try to contact the next of kin to give out the inheritance in the case she died?
They know you're family and they know where you live after all.

Other than people trying to contact dad a couple of years after the retirement money was there, no one has contacted us. And as far as I know, they were debt collectors. I wasn't here at the time, dad just told me about it.

Also the company he retired from no longer exists. It closed down and it was paid out to the account holding it now, I guess.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Trudeau and his cronies probably taxed it all.

 

[Never Scored]

It's going to vary by province, but if she got married or died there would be a marriage or death certificate in the province she was in. In most provinces, you fill out a form and pay a small fee to get a copy of a birth, death or marriage certificate. AFAIK this is all done provincially and there is no federal database. Just Google "province name death certificate". Most provinces also have a registry of deeds or land title you can search for a small fee to see if property has changed hands and whatever names are involved. If she bought or sold land or a house or something, she would be in that database and it may be useful for tracking down an address. Google "province name search property deeds/titles". Deed searches specifically are stupidly easy in some provinces and just cost $5-$10. I do it all the time when houses on my street get sold to find out how much they sold for.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Do the strange people of Canadia have social security numbers (or something similar)? Because if so, you can pay a few hundred bucks to a private detective and they will track her down dead or alive with that info. PI's have subscriptions to data feeds in various software suites that you can't find online.

 

[12345]

We have a SIN number yes, but I don't have it. There might be very old paper work stashed in a box somewhere, but less than a 1% chance.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Just take the money and if your mom gets mad then you found her and she's alive.

 

[parsnip]

We have a SIN number yes, but I don't have it. There might be very old paper work stashed in a box somewhere, but less than a 1% chance.

If your dad used the revenue Canada online system for taxes they may have uploaded all his past tax returns. one of those might have her SIN on it if they filed together while married.

 

[Robert Cummings]

Like 15 minutes.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

We have a SIN number yes, but I don't have it. There might be very old paper work stashed in a box somewhere, but less than a 1% chance.

You should be able to get the marriage certificate then which would (I assume) have the SIN. Or as the other dude mentioned, tax filings would have her SIN if they filed jointly. And again, even without that you have enough info for a PI to track her whereabouts down for a few hundred bucks.