Canada proxies
Two things decide what to buy for Canada. A US address does not substitute for a Canadian one, and that is the most common mistake on this country: Canadian targets recognise the neighbour and serve it a different catalogue or nothing at all. And the city you request decides the language: Montreal returns the French version where Toronto returns the English one.
What we have in Canada
All four types are available. Prices are the same as in every other country we cover.
Canadian retail, local search results, ad verification
Accounts and long sessions on one address
Volume collection, routes through the Toronto hub
Platforms that expect a carrier address
What Canadian addresses get used for
Retail price monitoring
Amazon.ca, Canadian Tire, Best Buy Canada, Walmart.ca, Loblaws, Hudson’s Bay: Canadian storefronts are separate from the American ones, and a US address will not show them to you.
Classifieds and second-hand
Kijiji, AutoTrader.ca for cars, Realtor.ca for property: local platforms with their own results.
Local search and SEO
google.ca, the local map pack and paid placements. Results differ from the American ones and between provinces.
Ad verification
CBC, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, La Presse: campaigns are bought for a Canadian audience and frequently for the francophone one separately.
What looks different from outside Canada
These serve a Canadian visitor something other than what a foreign one sees, and that includes American visitors. We sell addresses rather than a way past detection.
Which type to take for a Canadian job
Addresses in Canadian datacenters, traffic unmetered. The Toronto hub gives short routes domestically and into the US.
Volume collection, APIs, targets that ignore address class
Home connection addresses, billed per gigabyte, rotating by default.
Retail, google.ca results, ad checks, French-language versions
Consumer registration on datacenter hardware. Static and dedicated for the term.
Accounts, long sessions, anything that must not change address
A carrier address behind NAT, shared with real subscribers.
Social platforms and apps that expect a phone
Cities people ask for here
Cities are set with the _city_ suffix. The choice carries meaning in Canada: it selects the province and the language version, and the country spans several time zones.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Residential, TorontoThe default for English-language Canadian targets.
- 02Residential, MontrealWhen you need the French version: the city selects the language here.
- 03Datacenter, TorontoVolume jobs: cheap traffic and the best routes in the country.
- 04Static ISPAccounts: the address holds for the term and does not wander into another province.
Connection strings for Canada
The country code is CA, upper case. The city goes after it with _city_, hyphens instead of spaces, in the order country, city, session, lifetime.
Canadian static addresses take no suffixes: the host is the IP from your dashboard, port 50100, SOCKS5 on 50101.
Canadian exits, four ways
curl -x login_c_CA:[email protected]:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# Toronto, held for fifteen minutes on session 42
curl -x login_c_CA_city_Toronto_s_42_ttl_15m:[email protected]:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# Montreal, when you want the French version of the page
curl -x login_c_CA_city_Montreal_s_43_ttl_1h:[email protected]:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# a Canadian static address: no suffixes
curl -x login:password@YOUR-CA-IP:50100 https://api.ipify.orgA US address does not substitute for a Canadian one
The most common mistake on this country, and it costs accuracy rather than money.
The temptation is understandable: American inventory is larger, cheaper at volume and always to hand. But Canadian targets recognise the neighbour and behave differently with it. Retail chains keep separate Canadian storefronts with different assortment, some sites redirect American traffic to the American version, and broadcasters and sports services simply refuse American addresses.
The worst part is that the refusal usually looks like success. You get a 200 and a full page, only it is a page from the wrong country. The data accumulates, looks plausible, and describes the neighbouring market.
So make your first check about the country rather than about reachability: request a geolocation service through the exit and confirm it returns CA rather than US. And if you collect both countries, keep them as separate runs with explicit codes rather than as one North American pool.
The city selects the language of the page
The second Canadian peculiarity, and it is closer to the Spanish case than to the American one.
French holds a special status in Quebec, and sites operating in the province serve the French version by default. Many federal and large commercial sites are bilingual and choose the version from the visitor’s region rather than from the header alone.
The practical consequence for your setup: a Montreal address will not return the same thing as a Toronto one, even on the same site. If you need the French version, ask for Montreal and send fr-CA rather than fr-FR: they are different variants and some sites distinguish them.
And hold a sticky session for the run. Rotating between pages can hand you half a dataset in English and half in French, and in the data that looks like different pages rather than different languages.
What actually blocks you on Canadian targets
The familiar split, with one Canadian addition.
Large retail and the classifieds platforms filter hosting ranges: expect a 403 or a challenge from a datacenter address and plan for residential.
Publishers and reference sites serve datacenter addresses normally, and a Toronto datacenter address is the fastest and cheapest thing we have in this country.
Broadcasters and sports services are a separate strict group: they check the country as well as the address class, and they turn away an American exit just as readily as a European one.
Search results are reachable but rate limited per address: more addresses rather than a more expensive type.
Which exits you get here, and how stable they are
The Canadian pool in practical terms, and it has a pronounced shape.
The population sits in a narrow band along the southern border and the pool follows that shape. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are reliable for city requests, Calgary and Ottawa hold up, and anything further north or away from the large metros is thin and fails more often.
The country spans several time zones, so an antidetect profile has to be configured from the city rather than the country: a Vancouver address reporting Toronto time contradicts itself by three hours.
Sticky sessions behave normally, and Canadian home connections are fast and stable, so a session that ends early is a device going offline rather than anything about the route.
Choosing the type for a Canadian target
The usual order, with one adjustment for language.
- Start with datacenter in Toronto. If the target serves you normally, stop: $1.15 per address per month and the best routes in the country.
- A 403, or a redirect to the American version, means the target distinguishes both country and address class. Move to Canadian residential.
- A 429 after many requests is a per-address rate limit: more addresses, not a different type.
- If you need the French version, ask for Montreal and hold a sticky session for the whole run.
- Accounts belong on ISP: static, dedicated, and it will not wander into another province mid-job.
What Canadian sites check beyond the address
A Canadian address opens the first gate; language and timezone decide the rest, and both are subtler here than next door.
Language: send en-CA or fr-CA. American en-US on a Canadian address is not a contradiction, but some sites use it as a hint and return the American storefront.
Timezone: set it from the city. Canada covers several zones, and a profile copied from an American setup easily lands in the wrong one.
Then the usual: consent banners hide content, and a scraper that does not handle them captures an empty page under a successful status code.
What a month of Canadian work costs
Three scenarios at our prices, so you have something to check a quote against.
- Price monitoring across Canadian retail, 40,000 product pages a day with images blocked, roughly 80 KB per page. That is about 3.2 GB a day, around 96 GB a month: $96 on residential. If the targets do not filter hosting ranges, ten datacenter addresses do the same for $13.50.
- Collecting both the English and the French version of the same pages doubles the traffic but not the address count: about 192 GB a month, so $192.
- Twenty Canadian accounts on ISP addresses at $2.10 each on the volume tier: $42 a month, with no traffic billing at all.
The legal part, stated plainly
Canada has its own federal personal data legislation, separate from the European one, and some provinces operate their own regimes on top. Collecting data that identifies people in Canada is governed by those regardless of where your company sits or which address your traffic exits through.
This is general information rather than legal advice. Our terms require lawful use and we act on abuse reports. Where the answer carries commercial risk, ask a lawyer.
Verifying a Canadian exit
Under a minute. Here the first check matters more than the others: confirming you are in Canada rather than in the United States.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Canadian rather than American
curl -s -x login_c_CA:[email protected]:10000 https://ipinfo.io/json | grep -o '"country": "[A-Z]*"'
# 2. which language version does the target return from Montreal
curl -s -x login_c_CA_city_Montreal:[email protected]:10000 \
-H "Accept-Language: fr-CA,fr;q=0.9" https://example.ca | grep -o '<html[^>]*lang="[^"]*"'
# 3. does the sticky session hold
for i in 1 2 3; do
curl -s -x login_c_CA_s_42_ttl_15m:[email protected]:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo
doneQuestions people ask before buying Canadian addresses
Can I use a US address instead of a Canadian one?
No. Canadian targets recognise the neighbour: they serve a different storefront, redirect to the American version, or refuse entirely. The worst part is that refusal looks like success, so check the country before you start storing data.
How do I get the French version of a site?
Ask for Montreal and send fr-CA. The city selects the language here, and fr-CA and fr-FR are different variants that some sites distinguish.
Are all four types available in Canada?
Yes. Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile are all there.
Which cities are reliable?
Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are reliable; Calgary and Ottawa hold up. Further north and away from the large metros the pool is thin, so keep a country-level fallback.
Do Canadian addresses cost more?
No. Prices are the same everywhere: residential from $1.00 per GB, datacenter from $1.15 per address per month, ISP from $1.90, mobile from $5.76 per day.
Which timezone should the profile use?
The city, not the country. Canada covers several zones, and a Vancouver address reporting Toronto time is three hours out.