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I'm 90% done changing my name and I found it impossible to find a decent list showing what documents need to be changed. So I put a list together as I went.

Here it is...

Changing Your Last Name in Canada

1)      A week or so after your wedding go to a registry office and apply for your legal marriage certificate. It costs around $35 and you have your choice of a small or large sized certificate. It will arrive about a week after ordering it.

2)      Once the marriage certificate is received, you can start changing your name. Documents to change…

• Driver’s license and car insurance. Be sure to have a new copy of your vehicle registration printed as well as new insurance slips.

• Provincial Health Card (Alberta: http://www.health.alberta.ca/AHCIP/contact-AHCIP.html) .

• Canada Revenue Agency (http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/fq/nm_chng-eng.html) SIN number will be required when you phone.

• Bank Info – Take your original marriage certificate into your bank to change your name on all accounts.

• Credit Cards – Call the number on the back of your card.

• SIN Card – Go to the closest Service Canada Centre or mail in the form (http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/cgi-bin/search/eforms/index.cgi?app=prfl&frm=nas2120&ln=eng#noscriptxhtml).

• Passport – A new application has to be filled out due to the fact your name is being changed (http://www.pptc.gc.ca/form/index.aspx?lang=eng).

• Place of Employment (once bank info is changed)

• House or Tenants Insurance

• Utility Companies

• House and Cell Phone Company

• Loans

• Doctor/Dentist

• Club Memberships (Costco, gym, grocery store cards, etc…)

** Marriage Certificate is required for some of the above changes. Depends on the company.**

A few helpful links

 http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Your-Name-After-Marriage

 http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Your-Name-After-Marriage

@ablet: You're welcome! I'm in Calgary too :-)

Glad it helped!

I still need to change my SIN card and passport. Which are the 2 hardest things. Getting to an office to change my SIN card is almost impossible so I'll mail in the form. They say if you mail it, you have to include the original marriage certificate so I'm waiting until everything else is changed before sending it away.

Passport is just a pain in general lol! But I need to wait until I get my driver's license in the mail so I can mail a photocopy of it with the application form.

@noscare: I dreaded doing the whole name change thing too and it honestly hasnt been THAT bad. It's more a matter of sitting on the phone waiting to talk to someone. Then after 10 minute of waiting, some of them tell you to fax in a copy of your marriage certificate and that's it! Frustrating but it has to be done.

 @ablet: Aww thanks! We have all our professional pictures back now and I LOVE them. I've been trying to find time to post a few on here but haven't quite got around to it. Stay tuned!!

@dance: Wow that is complicated!!

You're welcome! Glad it could help.

@believe: After our wedding, we were told to wait a week before going to the registry office. When we went, we filled out the form and received the certificate in the mail shortly after. As soon as we got it, I started changing my name. I think by the time all that happened, it was about a month after the wedding that I started the name change process

It shouldn't take 10-13 weeks... that seems way too long.