Member

Department of Justice Canada
Constitutional, Administrative and International Law Section
284 Wellington Street
OTTAWA, Ontario
Canada K1A 0H8
attention: Kathryn Sabo, General Counsel
tel.: +1 (613) 957 4945
Email : kathryn.sabo@justice.gc.ca

For information on requesting an Apostille, please note that:
The HCCH Apostille Convention will start applying to Canada on January 11, 2024. 

For enquiries about requests under the HCCH Service Convention, please click here.

N.B.
The purpose of National Organs is the communication between the Members and the HCCH’s Permanent Bureau (Secretariat). They are not intended for communications with the public. Members of the public are kindly asked not to direct enquiries regarding a particular Convention to the National Organ.

Questions concerning a specific Convention may be directed to a Central or Competent Authority designated by a State for a particular Convention. The details of those authorities are available on the webpage relating to the specific Convention. If legal advice is required, assistance from a qualified lawyer may be necessary. 

The Permanent Bureau does not respond to legal queries from private persons or legal practitioners concerning the operation of the various Hague Conventions.

• Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents [12]
• Convention of 15 November 1965 on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters [14]
• Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction [28]
• Convention of 1 July 1985 on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition [30]
• Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption [33]
• Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance [38]

• Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children [34]