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Country sub-division: Province (10)    Territory (3)

Country Telephone Format: (999) 999-9999
The first set of three digits is the area code.
The second set of three digits is the prefix.
The third set of four digits is the suffix.

International Phone Code:

Country Postal Code Format:  V9V 9V9  (six char.
ALP-NUM-ALP-SPACE-NUM-ALP-NUM)

National ID Number:

Country Currency Format: 
Country Currency Format (English Canada): $999,999.99 CAD
Country Currency Format (French Canada) : 999 999,99 $ CAD
English Canada: Currency is two decimal places separated by a period.
French Canada : Currency is two decimal places separated by a comma.
English Canada: Repeated digit separator is a comma every three digits.
French Canada : Repeated digit separator is a space every three digits, with the exception between $1,000.00-$9,999.99; these numbers should not have any digit seperator.  eg. $1,234.56 should appear in french Canada as 1234.56 $
Currency symbol is a $ (English and French)
ISO Currency code is CAD (English and French)


The following lists contain an abbreviation and description.

PROVINCES:
BC = British Columbia
AB = Alberta
SK = Saskatchewan
MB = Manitoba
ON = Ontario
PQ = Quebec
PE = Prince Edward Island
NS = Nova Scotia
NL = Newfoundland and Labrador
NB = New Brunswick
NW = North West Territory
YK - Yukon
NT - Northwest Territories and Nunavut
NU = Nunavut
(Nunavut is included in NT)

Quebec can ALSO use:
QC - Quebec

Mr. Wes Rogers
7612 12th Street
VANCOUVER  BC  V7X  2E4
CANADA


Mrs. Madeleine Chandler
7449 Rupert Avenue
TORONTO  ON  P2F  9T4
CANADA

Canada Post Corporation
Societe Canadienne Des Postes
Press Offices
1234 Govenrment Drive
OTTAWA ON  P1R  9G9
CANADA

ALSO:
The letters W and Z are not used as the first letters of postal codes;
The letters D, F, I, O, Q, and U are never used in Canadian postal codes.
If one of these letters appears in your records, it is inaccurate and should
be corrected.

Posted by:Jes Andresen

Additional Information
The national identification number is called the Social Insurance Number
(SIN).  It is a 9-digit number formatted into three groups of three digits
each, using spaces as separators.  The final digit is a modulo-10 checksum
digit based on the first eight digits.  Format:

999 999 999

Posted by : Mark Bodwell

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