Credential Verification Information

The CCDA supports and facilitates the mobility of skilled trades workers in Canada through the Red Seal Program and alignment with the Canadian Free Trade Agreement. Moreover, the CCDA is working collaboratively to ensure all jurisdictions develop digital solutions that enable immediate verification of journeyperson’s qualifications. Provinces and territories across Canada are moving towards online public registries of tradespeople, to ensure ease of verifying certification. Using the journeyperson’s name and/or certificate number, employers and consumers can easily verify the authenticity of a journeyperson’s qualification(s). The links to each established registry are listed below. Some provinces and territories are still in the process of implementing their own registries. As they do, links will be provided on this page.

Please note that requirements for certification vary across jurisdictions, and that each province and territory may have additional, separate licensing and occupational, health and safety requirements. Those requirements are governed by other regulatory agencies and government departments.

How to Verify a Tradesperson’s Certification

• British Columbia

  All tradespersons who are certified by Skilled Trades BC are listed on an online public registry. Their name, certificate number, and trade are required to search the registry - British Columbia.

• Alberta

  All tradespersons who are certified by Alberta’s Apprenticeship and Industry Training are listed on an online public registry. Their name and certificate number is required to search using the Tradesperson Lookup Tool - Alberta.

• Saskatchewan

  All tradespersons who are certified by the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission are listed on an online public registry. Their name, certificate number, and trade are required to search the registry - Saskatchewan

• Manitoba

  To verify a tradesperson's certification, email: apprenticeship@gov.mb.ca

  Email request must include the Consent to Disclose Form - Manitoba (PDF, 66 KB) or include client name, date of birth, trade name, certification number, Red Seal number and issue date.

  Confirmation of certification is normally done within 10 business days.

• Ontario

  All certified tradespersons in compulsory trades in Ontario are listed on an online public registry - Ontario.

  To verify trade qualifications in non-compulsory trades, email: verification@skilledtradesontario.ca

  Email requests must include the person's first and last name, and either their date of birth or certificate number.

  Confirmation of is typically done within 10 business days.

• Quebec

  Commission de la Construction du Québec (CCQ) for construction trades - Quebec, email: reconnaissance@ccq.org

  Email request must include the Consent to Disclose Form - Quebec (PDF, 173 KB) or include client name, date of birth, trade name, certification number, Red Seal number and issue date.

  Confirmation of certification is normally done within 10 business days.

  Ministère de l'Emploi et Solidarité sociale (MESS) for non-construction trades, send an email to: caqp@servicesquebec.gouv.qc.ca

  The email request for completing certification verification needs to include the person’s first name, last name, trade, and certificate number.

  Confirmation of certification is normally done within 10 business days.

• New Brunswick

  All tradespersons who who hold a Certificate of Qualification (CQ) in New Brunswick are listed on an online public registry. To use this service, enter a first name, last name and certificate number from a wall certificate or ID card in the Certified Tradesperson lookup tool.

• Nova Scotia

  All tradespersons who are certified by the Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency are listed on an online public registry. Their name and trade, and their certificate number or client ID or Red Seal number are required to search the credential verification tool.

• Prince Edward Island

  To verify a tradesperson's certification, email: apprenticeship@gov.pe.ca

  Please include client name, trade name, certification number, Red Seal number and issue date in the email.

  Confirmation of certification is normally done within 10 business days.

• Newfoundland & Labrador

  Registered apprentices and individuals with a certificate issued by Newfoundland and Labrador are listed on an online public registry - Newfoundland & Labrador. Their name and certificate or apprentice number is required to search for them on this registry.

• Nunavut

  To verify a tradesperson's certification, email: nuapprenticeship@gov.nu.ca

  Email request must include the Consent to Disclose Form - Nunavut (PDF, 219 KB) or a copy of the certificate, client name, date of birth, trade name, certification number, Red Seal number, issue date.

  Confirmation of certification is normally done within 10 business days.

• Northwest Territories

  To verify a tradesperson's certification, email: apprenticeship@gov.nt.ca

  Email request must include the Consent to Disclose Form - Northwest Territories (PDF, 309 KB) or include client name, date of birth, trade name, certification number, Red Seal number and issue date.

  Confirmation of certification is normally done within 10 business days.

• Yukon

  To verify a tradesperson's certification, email: apprenticeship@yukon.ca

  Email request must include the client’s first and last name, birthdate, trade, and certification number (and the date issued, if possible).

  Confirmation of certification is normally done within 10 business days.