Notary Public & Commissioner of Oaths in Ottawa

Minute Notary's office is at 8056 Jeanne d'Arc Blvd N in Orléans, in Ottawa's east end. Across Ottawa, clients can use secure video, attend the Orléans office by appointment, or request a mobile visit where the notary travels to them. Outside the Ottawa service area, our location pages offer online commissioning only.

That matters because some documents are not offered in an online appointment. Certified true copies of paper originals need the physical document in the notary's hands, and we sign powers of attorney, wills and documents heading for authentication abroad in person. If you are in Ottawa, those are still possible — book in person instead of online.

Ottawa also has a document profile no other Canadian city shares. The federal public service generates a steady stream of pension attestations, security-clearance declarations, and employment affidavits, and the city's large newcomer population brings IRCC paperwork.

Wills and powers of attorney are the clearest example of what being local makes possible. Each needs two qualifying witnesses signing together in the same room, and the people usually in that room — a spouse, an adult child, the person being appointed — are precisely the ones the Succession Law Reform Act and the Substitute Decisions Act disqualify. The notary acts as one witness and brings the second, at the Orléans office or on a mobile visit anywhere across the city, and takes the affidavit of execution at the same appointment.