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Only the first three characters are listed, corresponding to the Forward Sortation Area (FSA). Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [1] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry, [2] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow ...
A Canadian postal code (French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish, and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.
However, the new code NU was chosen to stem possible confusion and to reflect the new territory's creation. On 21 October 2002, Newfoundland and Labrador's postal abbreviation was changed from NF to NL. This reflected the provincial name change from "Newfoundland" to "Newfoundland and Labrador" on 6 December 2001.
This is a list of the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census and the 2016 Canadian census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA) as defined by Statistics Canada.
There are currently 103 FSAs in this list. There are no rural FSAs in Toronto, hence no postal codes should start with M0. However, a handful of individual special-purpose codes in the M0R FSA are assigned to "Gateway Commercial Returns, 4567 Dixie Rd, Mississauga" as a merchandise returns label for freepost returns to high-volume vendors such as Amazon and the Shopping Channel.
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Area code 709 was expected to be exhausted by 2027. In 2017, area code 879 was assigned as the second area code for Newfoundland and Labrador for relief action by overlay. [3] After being suspended indefinitely in 2021, [4] relief was rescheduled by the CRTC on September 15, 2023, for activation of an overlay on February 17, 2024. [5]
In a 1993 zone split, Metropolitan Toronto retained the 416 code, while the other municipalities of the Greater Toronto Area were assigned the new area code 905. [89] This division by area code has become part of the local culture to the point where local media refer to something inside Toronto as "the 416" and outside of Toronto as "the 905". [90]