FakecreditcardHow a Canadian address is written
Canada Post’s addressing guidelines put the civic address on one line and the municipality, province and postal code on the last line: 1520 Birch Cres / Ottawa ON K2B 7E4. Apartment or suite numbers go in front of the civic number with a hyphen — 1204-88 Lakeshore Rd — or after the street as Apt 1204. Street directionals (NW, SE) follow the street type and are common in prairie cities such as Calgary and Edmonton.
Canada Post recommends upper case, no punctuation and two spaces between the province code and the postal code on the envelope. Your database can keep mixed case; the generator returns one space.
Postal code structure
Canadian postal codes alternate letter–digit: A1A 1A1. The first three characters are the forward sortation area (FSA), the last three the local delivery unit (LDU).
- The first letter is the postal district:
ANewfoundland and Labrador,BNova Scotia,CPEI,ENew Brunswick,G/H/JQuebec,K/L/M/N/POntario (Mis Toronto),RManitoba,SSaskatchewan,TAlberta,VBritish Columbia,XNorthwest Territories and Nunavut,YYukon. - A second-position
0marks a rural FSA (X0A). - The letters D, F, I, O, Q and U are never used, and W and Z never start a code.
Validate with ^[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTVXY]\d[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTV-Z] ?\d[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTV-Z]\d$ after upper-casing, and cross-check the first letter against the selected province.
Provinces and territories
Canada has ten provinces and three territories, each with a two-letter code used in addresses: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK, NT, NU and YT. The province is required on Canadian mail, unlike the county in the UK. Older data may contain PQ for Quebec or NF for Newfoundland; map them when you import legacy records.
Testing tips for Canadian address forms
- Bilingual names: accept accents and apostrophes (
Montréal,Québec,St. John's). In Quebec the street type usually comes first in French (rue,boulevard,chemin). - Unit prefix: make sure
1204-88is not parsed as a range or a phone number. - Province/postal code mismatch: test that a Toronto
Mcode with provinceBCis flagged. - Shared country code: Canada and the US both use +1, so phone input alone cannot decide the country.
Building a Canadian test data set
For good coverage, generate a batch from every province rather than only Ontario: the first letter of the postal code changes, the rural X0A code in Nunavut exercises the “0 in second position” case, and Quebec city names bring accents into your CSV exports. Pair each address with a 555-01xx phone number in the city’s real area code, and check that your phone formatter prints +1 (613) 555-0147 the same way it would for a US number. If you calculate sales tax, remember that GST, HST and PST combinations depend on the province, so a mixed batch tests that logic too.
What makes these addresses fictional
Municipalities, province codes and the first letters of the postal codes are real; the rest of the postal code, the street name and the number are generated. Any match with a real address is a coincidence. Use the data only in test, staging and demo environments.
Provinces and territories of Canada
The generator uses the 13 first-level provinces and territories below, with the codes used in addresses. Cities are picked from 20 places spread across the country, each with postcodes from its own range.
- ABAlberta
- BCBritish Columbia
- MBManitoba
- NBNew Brunswick
- NLNewfoundland and Labrador
- NSNova Scotia
- ONOntario
- PEPrince Edward Island
- QCQuebec
- SKSaskatchewan
- NTNorthwest Territories
- NUNunavut
- YTYukon
Example Canada test addresses
Ottawa ON K2B 7E4
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Vancouver BC V6K 2N9
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Validation pattern used for the Postal code: ^[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTVXY]\d[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTV-Z] \d[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTV-Z]\d$. It checks the format only — whether a code is actually in use is known only to the postal operator.
Phone numbers in Canada test data
Canada shares the North American Numbering Plan with the US: +1, a 3-digit area code and a 7-digit number. The generator uses only 555-0100 to 555-0199, the block NANPA keeps for fictional use, with the city’s real area code.
| Type / area | Reserved range | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Any Canadian area code (NANP) | NXX 555-0100 to 555-0199 |
Source: NANPA – 555 line numbers (checked October 2026). All ranges: test e-mail addresses and fictional phone numbers.
Sources
Postcode ranges, region lists and address conventions checked against these sources in October 2026. Street names in the generator are synthetic.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the format of a Canadian postal code?
Six characters in the pattern letter–digit–letter, space, digit–letter–digit, for example K2B 7E4. The first letter shows the province or region.
Where does the apartment number go in a Canadian address?
Usually before the civic number with a hyphen (1204-88 Lakeshore Rd), or after the street as Apt 1204.
Can I use 555 numbers for Canadian test data?
Yes. Canada is part of the North American Numbering Plan, and 555-0100 to 555-0199 are reserved for fictional use across it.
Is this a real address in Canada?
No. The city, province or territory and postcode format are real, but the street and house number are random. Use the addresses for testing forms, databases and shipping-rate logic, never to send mail or goods.