A residential proxy for Canada gives you an address from a Canadian home internet provider, so sites treat your requests as a visit from Canada. Use it for jobs that need a Canadian view: prices and stock on Canadian stores, google.ca results, and how a site treats a visitor from Quebec.
Free Canadian proxies are no substitute. On October 22, 2026, 34 of the 35 working ones on our free list were already flagged as proxies, and most ran on cloud servers. Our residential proxies target Canada from $0.50/GB for one GB.
Which networks does a Canadian residential address come from?
A residential address belongs to the provider that connects the home. RIPEstat, the RIPE NCC's routing database, shows how many IPv4 addresses each Canadian network announces to the internet:
Canada's regulator sees the same pattern. The CRTC's 2025 market report says internet access "remains concentrated between legacy incumbent providers", the phone and cable companies, while smaller competitors keep losing share. Bell also announces about 1.6 million more addresses through two other networks.
What does a Canadian address change?
Sites read your address to decide where you are. Google's help page puts it plainly: "IP addresses are roughly based on geography", and your location "helps to show you nearby results". A US address shows you the US version of a page. A Canadian address shows what a visitor in Canada sees.
That makes these jobs possible:
- Price and stock checks. See the prices, promotions and stock a store shows to shoppers in Canada.
- Search results. Track google.ca rankings and local results as a Canadian user sees them.
- Quebec checks. See which language and which version of a site a visitor from Quebec gets.
- Ad checks. Confirm that a Canadian campaign shows in Canada, and how.
For a job that needs one city or one provider, Residential Premium adds state, city and ISP targeting. Residential Lite targets the country at the lowest rate.
What does a Canadian proxy not do?
A proxy changes your address and nothing else. A site that forbids proxies forbids this one as well, and its rules apply to your work. Detection services also list residential proxies: MaxMind's Anonymous IP database has a flag for them. Our guide to how websites detect proxies explains the other checks.
Why do free Canadian proxies fail?
Our collector reads the free proxy lists published online. Since May 13, 2026, we have seen 19,739 Canadian addresses on those lists, and only 3,174 ever worked. On October 22, 35 were working, and the picture was clear:
Only five ran on home networks, four on TELUS and one on Shaw. A free proxy is fine for testing your code. Our free proxy list for Canada shows the working ones, and our page on Canadian proxies covers the paid options.
How much traffic does a Canadian job need?
Size it from the pages you load. HTTP Archive's Web Almanac 2024 measured the median desktop page at 2,652 KB and the median mobile page at 2,311 KB. One GB therefore covers roughly 380 full desktop page loads.
A job that skips images and scripts needs far less. Load twenty typical pages through the proxy, read the traffic it used in the dashboard, and multiply.
How do you buy it here?
- Top up your balance. Pay by card from $10, or with crypto from $3. The balance never expires.
- Pick the pool. Residential Lite targets Canada as a country from $0.50/GB for one GB, falling to $0.44 per GB at volume. Residential Premium adds state, city and ISP targeting from $1.00/GB.
- Set the session. Rotate the address on every request for data collection, or hold one address with a sticky session of 3 minutes to 24 hours on Premium.
Which one should you buy?
For most Canadian jobs, buy Residential Lite with Canada as the country. Free Canadian proxies lose: almost all are flagged, and most are not Canadian homes at all. A US proxy loses too, because it shows you the US version of every page. Choose Premium when the job needs a city or a provider. Our residential proxies page has the full price list.
What this page could not check
- We tested no speed, success rate or block rate, on any network, ours included.
- We do not publish which Canadian networks our own exits come from, or how many there are.
- Announced address space is not a count of homes or customers.
- The CRTC report was read through a search engine, because its site refused our readers.
- The free proxy figures come from one day and one IP reputation check, and 35 proxies is a small sample.
- We will check every number on this page again by January 22, 2027.
Sources
- RIPE NCC, RIPEstat routing-status and as-overview data, read October 22, 2026.
- CRTC, Canadian Telecommunications Market Report 2025.
- Google Search Help, "Understand and manage your location when you search on Google", read October 22, 2026.
- HTTP Archive, Web Almanac 2024, Page Weight chapter, December 30, 2024.
- MaxMind, GeoIP Anonymous IP database documentation, read October 22, 2026.
- HProxy, residential pricing page and payment options page, read October 22, 2026.
- HProxy, free proxy measurement for Canada, October 22, 2026.
