5 Best Notary Public Services in Toronto (2026)

Downtown Notary is a notary public and commissioner-for-oaths practice located near Bay Street and Wellesley Street in downtown Toronto. It handles certified true copies, affidavits, statutory declarations, wills, powers of attorney, apostille and legalization work, and even offers Spanish-language service and house calls. Its lead notary, Mario Delgado, was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2013 and has run the practice since 2014.

Toronto Notary Public is a notarization, certification, legalization and commissioning practice on Bathurst Street that has served more than 125,000 clients according to its own site. It runs a tiered per-signature fee structure that gets cheaper the more documents you bring in one visit, and most appointments are completed within about five minutes. It positions itself as Toronto's number-one notary service by volume.

Red Seal Notary is a notary public, commissioner-for-oaths and fingerprinting service on Adelaide Street East that also handles apostille preparation and RCMP-related document work. It combines notarial services with fingerprinting under one roof, a combination not offered by most of the other names on this list. Staff members are named repeatedly across reviews for handling multi-step processes like passport identity verification and apostille prep.

New Horizons Notary Services is a mobile notary public operating across Toronto, Scarborough, North York and the wider GTA, plus British Columbia for real estate matters. Rather than a fixed storefront, its notary works from home and travels to clients for signings, offering same-day service by phone. It handles affidavits, certified true copies, powers of attorney and travel consent documents at the client's location.

St. Lawrence Notary is a small, independently run notary practice on Church Street near the St. Lawrence Market, offering notarization, affidavits, statutory declarations and apostille preparation for documents to be used in Ontario. Franklin, the notary, runs the practice largely solo and is described repeatedly by reviewers responding to calls or texts within the hour. Pricing is a flat rate per document plus a lower fee for each additional document in the same visit.