Provinces in Canada: abbreviations

By Kay McMahon, 9 March 2010

Each of Canada’s ten provinces and three territories has its own code (two letters for most of them, three or even four in a minority of cases) which you’ll find used time and time again when you’re dealing with Canadian federal and provincial officials. Here’s a reference list of them.

• AB = Alberta*
• BC = British Columbia*
• MB = Manitoba*
• NB = New Brunswick*
• NFLD = Newfoundland and Labrador*
• NWT = Northwest Territories
• NS = Nova Scotia*
• NV = Nunavut
• ON = Ontario
• PEI = Prince Edward Island*
• QC = Quebec**
• SK = Saskatchewan*
• YK = Yukon*

* = has Provincial Nominee Program

** = Quebec has own selection immigration class