About Us

We were founded in 1990 on a principle of identifying and resolving some of the major challenges of the long distance moving industry. These challenges included lengthy delivery periods, expensive and complicated pricing with hidden surcharges, and high claim ratios.

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Our Story

Our founders did comprehensive research and system development to solve these challenges for our long distance moving clients. Through this, we are able to provide faster, reliable long distance moving services with transparent pricing and low claim ratios. We’ve refined these systems over three decades, enabling us to provide reliable, stress-free long distance moving services to our clients at an affordable price.

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The Great Canadian Way

Our Pricing System

Our estimates are detailed, easy to understand and contain no hidden surcharges.

Faster Delivery Times

We created more direct routing and scheduling. This allows us to move goods faster.

Low Claim Ratios

Our moving team is paid a portion of the valuation premium to take better care of your goods, This results in a low claim ratio (currently 3.5 %) and much happier customers.

Helpful Resources

We provide all of our customers with our Moving Process guide. This document was designed with you in mind, and to help to guide you through each step of the moving process. Our goal is to make sure you understand all of the important steps of your relocation from start to finish.

And we are multilingual with staff fluent in English, French, Punjabi and Hindi to help you in your preferred language.

Our Moving Process

36th Anniversary Contest

At Great Canadian Van Lines we celebrate our anniversary a little differently than other companies. We give one lucky customer a $100 for every year we’ve been in business. If you book a long distance move with us, you are automatically entered into a draw for cash! This year in honour of our 36th anniversary we are giving away $3600.

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