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Where do we exchange our European driving licences for Quebec ones?

Old Aug 4th 2011, 4:33 pm
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Hi there
It may seem like a silly question but where do we need to go to exchange our driving licences from UK / French ones to Quebec ones? Is it also in Montreal like the health cover? It doesn't say on the SAAQ website or anywhere else that I have found...

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Old Aug 4th 2011, 5:00 pm
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Default Re: Where do we exchange our European driving licences for Quebec ones?

Originally Posted by Tango Mike
Hi there
It may seem like a silly question but where do we need to go to exchange our driving licences from UK / French ones to Quebec ones? Is it also in Montreal like the health cover? It doesn't say on the SAAQ website or anywhere else that I have found...

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Presumably the equivalent of Service New Brunswick ie. Service Quebec ?
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It may seem like a silly question but where do we need to go to exchange our driving licences from UK / French ones to Quebec ones? Is it also in Montreal like the health cover? It doesn't say on the SAAQ website or anywhere else that I have found...

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You were not looking very hard. It took me ten seconds to find this.

http://www.saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/driver...ange/index.php
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Old Aug 4th 2011, 9:19 pm
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Default Re: Where do we exchange our European driving licences for Quebec ones?

10 whole seconds??? It took me only about 3 to find that site ;-) But it just gives a number to call in order to discuss a myriad of bits of paperwork & make an appointment unless I have missed something....and as I am currently in France on a UK iPhone, I thought it 'cheaper' to ask wise & savvy expats such as yourself.

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based on how quebecers drive i would say collect 3 tokens from cornflakes packets and choose a car you like
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Old Aug 5th 2011, 12:17 am
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Default Re: Where do we exchange our European driving licences for Quebec ones?

It used to be that you could wander down to a main SAAQ office and get it done there while you wait (at least when I did it in 2001)

These days you have to phone up and get an appointment for an interview before they'll do it.
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Default Re: Where do we exchange our European driving licences for Quebec ones?

Originally Posted by Tango Mike
10 whole seconds??? It took me only about 3 to find that site ;-) But it just gives a number to call in order to discuss a myriad of bits of paperwork & make an appointment unless I have missed something....and as I am currently in France on a UK iPhone, I thought it 'cheaper' to ask wise & savvy expats such as yourself.

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I'm hardly savvy on this issue. I don't drive.
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Default Re: Where do we exchange our European driving licences for Quebec ones?

Originally Posted by JGK
It used to be that you could wander down to a main SAAQ office and get it done there while you wait (at least when I did it in 2001)

These days you have to phone up and get an appointment for an interview before they'll do it.
Thanks for that. Would the interview have to be in Montreal? We are going to be based just outside of Ottawa....it seems we have to go to Montreal to get health cover sorted too.
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