This is a very simple request.

My family and I will be moving to Toronto in April.

How do I write the address of the apartment we are renting?

Is it Appt #, Apartment Block street address, suburb, Toronto, ON, Postal Code?

Or is it Apartment Block street address, Appt #, suburb, Toronto, ON, Postal Code?

Or is it something ele?

I always put my apartment number first,
Apt. #
50 Whatever Street,
Rosedale (I wish!),
Toronto,
M6J 2W0
Ontario.

Yes, that's right...you don't even need the word apt. Simply

#21,
144 Long Street (or it could be... 5350-11 Avenue)
Toronto,
Ontario
M6J 2W0

That is sufficent

Canada Post changes things every once in a while just to keep us on our toes. Lately they have asked that the apartment # be listed at the end of the street address and also that the city is capitalized.

The one main requirement they have is to place the city, province and postal code on one line. Most correspondence is directed as follows:

Mr. Joe Smith
#14 - 1769 Nowhere Lane (or 1769 Nowhere Lane, #14)
Vancouver BC V2C 5K5

Cheers!

Oggy

If you want to make the address compact, e.g., when you have it printed on return address labels, you can combine the apartment number and street on one line:

#21, 5350 - 11 Avenue

When you need a compressed address format, you also can write the city, province and postal code on one line, as follows:

Toronto, ON M6J 2W0

I recall reading somewhere, when I arrived in Canada in the late 1970s, that when you included "Canada" in your return address on a piece of international mail, it should be incorporated as follows:

#21, 5350 - 11 Avenue
Toronto, ON
Canada M6J 2W0

In other words, Canada should come before the postal code.

I've just looked up the Canada Post Guide at:

http://www.canadapost.ca/common/tool...nual/b03-e.asp

and have not been able to find instructions with respect to the inclusion of "Canada" in the address, so cannot "officially" confirm what I've just said about international mail.

The Canada Postal Guide states that, when the postal code is written on the same line as something else, it should be preceded by two spaces and no comma, as in this example:

#21, 5350 - 11 Avenue
Toronto, ON M6J 2W0

In previewing my post, I see that the forum software "corrects" for the two spaces that I've left before the postal code, and shows them only as a single space. Oh well.

Interestingly enough, the Canada Post Guide says that symbols, such as #, should never be used. It says that an abbreviation, such as Apt for Apartment, is acceptable.

According to the Canada Post Guide, it would be acceptable to write the above mentioned address as follows:

Apt 21, 5350 - 11 Avenue
Toronto, ON M6J 2W0

or simply as follows:

21, 5350 - 11 Avenue
Toronto, ON M6J 2W0

However, millions of pieces of mail get sent out with # included in their addresses every day, and they reach their destinations.

In case someone bound for Calgary should read this message, Calgary is one of those places that is a minority in Canada. In this city, the apartment or unit number is written after the rest of the address, as follows:

5350 - 11 Avenue SW, Apt 2108
Calgary, AB T2P 3N4

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