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From: manis@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: SIN Number
Keywords: SIN
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Date: 29 Dec 88 21:07:29 GMT
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OK, I guess we'll have to gather data. *My* SIN was also obtained in
BC (in 1967, if that makes any difference), and it also starts with a
7. I remember a piece of folklore which says that the first 3 digits
indicates the Canada Employment Centre at which you applied for your
SIN, but I can't prove that.

Incidentally, unless there is a ``SIN Fuehrer'' in Ottawa who is
responsible for allocating numbers, some geographical system of this
sort would have to be used.


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