- Be sure to set aside, or place in your vehicle, the items you want to keep with you.
- Ensure you plan to spend the entire day with the movers.
- Greet the movers, give them your instructions and point out fragile items to them.
- Find a system for identifying your boxes—this will make the movers’ job easier when they reach your new home.
- Take an inventory of all the boxes and furniture loaded into the van.
- Provide the movers with labelled bags to hold the screws they remove from disassembled furniture.
- Allocate a box for tools, paper towels, hand soap, toilet paper, adhesive tape and parts from disassembled furniture.
- Turn off, or turn down, the heating/air conditioning.
- Put out the garbage.
- Make a last round of the house to ensure that nothing has been left behind (don’t forget to check in cabinets, drawers, closets).
- Be sure you have tickets, the necessary papers, and money for the trip.
- Lock the doors and windows and turn over the keys to the realtor or owner.
On Arrival At Your Destination
- Stay with the movers and make a list of what they unload from the van.
- Instruct the movers where to place boxes and pieces of furniture.
- Check for missing or damaged items.
- Read all meters (hydro, water, etc.).
- Change the locks.
What You Need To Know
If you are already a resident of Ontario, and are moving to a new base or near a base within the province, you can change the address on your health card, driver’s licence, and/or vehicle permit online.
If you have newly moved into Ontario, you need to update your health card, driver’s license, and/or vehicle permit online. When you update a driver’s license or vehicle permit, you must also update the address on your health card, so the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has your new address on file.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/change-address-drivers-licence-vehicle-permit-and-health-card
Deadline For Updating Your Address
From the time your address changes you must, by law, update your:
- Driver’s licence and vehicle permit (the green ownership document) within 6 days
- Health card within 30 days
https://www.ontario.ca/page/change-address-drivers-licence-vehicle-permit-and-health-card#section-1
What You Need To Change Your Address
For all services you’ll need your complete new residential and/or mailing address, including your address (with your unit number, floor, number, etc.), postal code, city and province.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/change-address-drivers-licence-vehicle-permit-and-health-card#section-1
Driver’s Licence and Vehicle Permits
To change your driver’s licence or vehicle permit, you’ll need your:
- Driver’s licence number, or registrant identification number.
- Issue date on your driver’s licence.
- Photo health card.
If your health card has an address printed on it, you cannot update your address online. You must update it in person at a ServiceOntario centre . To change the address on your photo health card online, you’ll need:
- Your health card number and version code
- The postal code on your current driver’s licence
- The 9 characters found on the back of your health card
https://www.ontario.ca/page/change-address-drivers-licence-vehicle-permit-and-health-card#section-1
Driver's Licence / Car Registration
When you move to Ontario, you can use a valid licence from another province, state or country for 60 days. After 60 days, you need to switch to an Ontario driver’s licence.
You can exchange an out-of-province licence for an Ontario licence, if you are re-locating from:
- Any Canadian province or territory
- Canadian Armed Forces
- U.S. States
- Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Switzerland, Taiwan.
Drivers Licence Resources
Get a G Driver’s Licence: New Drivers
Change an Address on Your Driver’s Licence, Vehicle Permit, and Health Card
Renewing Your Driver’s Licence
Renewing a Driver’s Licence Outside Ontario
Switching your licence for an Ontario driver’s licence
Exchange Out Of Province Drivers Licence
Paying Defaulted Fines and Driver’s Licence Reinstatement
Register a Vehicle (Permits, Licence Plates, and Stickers)
For additional support or information, please contact: (613) 998-4888 or info@mfrc-ncr.ca