Can anyone recommend a good way to obtain a birth certificate for my spouse who was born in England and resides in Canada.

I've come across this website through my own research, is it any good?

www.bmd-certificates.co.uk

Best way and the cheapest is to call the registars office in the town or city where she was born and ask for mailing instructions.... this is what I did and all I had to do was write my request giving my full name at birth, the date and place and my mother and fathers names... I had to include a check or credit card # for the payment... I got the certificate within 2 weeks....

Kez

I used an online service such as the one you listed, took about 2 weeks to arrive.

With a little more research I was able to find the official government site where you can obtain them online.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/

Thanks all.

I used these http://ukdocuments.com/birthcerts.php

I used them, they were fine.