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Basic banking services

What do I have to do to open a personal account?
These are the steps to follow:

When you go to the financial institution to open an account, have two pieces of identification to hand, such as:
  • driver’s licence
  • Canadian passport
  • birth certificate issued in Canada
  • Social Insurance card
  • senior’s card
  • Certificate of Indian Status
  • provincial health insurance card (accepted particularly in Quebec, but not in all provinces)
  • Canadian citizenship or naturalization certificate
  • permanent resident’s card
  • Canada Citizenship and Immigration form IMM 1000 or IMM 1442
If you have only one of these pieces of I.D., you still have two possibilities:

1. You can present this I.D. plus one of the following cards:
  • employee identity card issued by a recognized employer (e.g. the government)
  • debit card or bank card of a Canadian financial institution bearing your signature
  • credit card issued Canada bearing your name and signature
  • a valid passport of another country
2. You can be accompanied by a person known to the bank who will be able to identify you.
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