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Telephone numbers in Canada

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at the time, were not included in the first assignments of 1947, for lack of telephone service. Locations with service bordering a numbering plan area, were later served with codes of the regional carriers, such as
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Local calls from Canadian landlines are dialled without the trunk prefix. Overseas calls to locations outside the NANP are dialled with the
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numbers are not uniquely different from land-line numbers, and thus follow the same rules for format and area code. Numbers may be
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for dialing long-distance calls, across numbering plan area (NPA) boundaries within Canada or to other NANP countries, is also
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recommends using hyphens between groups; e.g. 250-555-0199. Using the format specified by the
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Area codes 807 and 867 are the only remaining Canadian area codes that are not part of an
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Canada was divided into nine numbering plan areas with unique area codes in 1947 when the
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Yukon, and the far northern regions, nor Newfoundland and Labrador which was a
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is an exception to this pattern (non-portable, and allows caller-pays-airtime
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for telephone numbers, a Canadian number is written as
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No area codes have been split in Canada since 1999.
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Index

List of Alberta area codes
Canada
North America
Country code
International access
Long-distance
North American Numbering Plan
area code
central office code
country code
E.164
telephone numbering plan
trunk prefix
international prefix
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
telephone numbering plan
Operator Toll Dialing
destination code routing
Direct Distance Dialing
British dominion
Northwestel
Alberta
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780
368
587
825
British Columbia
604
250

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