So my fiance is filling out the request to get his birth certificate and his three options are: large, small, or restricted photocopy. I assume what he needs is the "large" option. Has anyone run into this? Can you verify that I'm correct?

Which province is he from?? Its the Birth cert that has the parents names and where they were born on it.

Just read ur profile, appears he is from manitoba??? http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Certificates.html

so yes he requires the LONG format

I don't know where he's ordering it from...they aren't giving him an option of long and short, I figured we were better safe, than sorry. He is from Manitoba, yes. I'll tell him to order the "large" option...that whole "restricted photocopy" part threw me off.

http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/pdf/Appl_form_english.pdf