Organizations and institutions overseas and within Canada occasionally require you to submit Certified True Copies before they will provide a service or answer your questions. In these instances, a notary public is the only profession in Ontario able to certified copies as identical to the original. 

Notary-toronto.ca can certify true copies for both international and domestic purposes. Please consult our Legalization and Authentication page to learn more about this process if your documents require it. 

Please book an appointment and bring both the original document as well as photocopies. Notary-toronto.ca does not have printing services available. Additionally, please note that if you photocopy multiple pieces of identification onto one page, each image requires a certification as a true copy. You will be charged per image. The document does not need to be yours or even in English as a Certified True Copy just means that it is a copy. Our notaries do not confirm the information contained in Certified True Copies. 

We will certify true copies in either colour or black and white. However, it is best to ask the organization or person you will be sending the documents to and check what their preference is before making your copies. 

If you have a multi-page document, we only need to affix one seal. However, as we have to certify each page, we will charge each four pages as a new document.