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Originally Posted by Acajack
Is that "official" or simply "accepted" by Canada Post?
Here in Gatineau (and most places in Quebec I think) when they did the big municipal mergers they told people they needed to use the new municipal names otherwise the mail would not get through.
So at this point basically no one here would write "200 Promenade du Portage Hull QC" anymore.
In Ottawa it seems less prescriptive and while they did eliminate all street name duplication, people use "Kanata ON", "Orleans ON", "Cumberland ON" on addresses all the time. I believe some City of Ottawa facilities still do, even.
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In Ontario from what I can tell, you use whatever your nearby post office uses. I just wish we would do what Quebec has done and use the actual municipality who you pay taxes to.
Some former municipality parts of Toronto and Ottawa did largely change to the new city name after the municipal mergers but not everywhere. I do know that Canada Post has no issue if you put Ottawa or Toronto even though the address might be in Kanata or Scarborough. It's the postal code that is more important.
But in Timmins if you live in the parts I mentioned, you still have to use the town name of the post office that covers where you live even though it's in the City of Timmins.
For Temiskaming Shores, NOBODY has a mailing address that uses the name of that municipality. The old names are still used. (New Liskeard, Dymond Twp, Haileybury, North Colbalt)