So, if we can avail of such notarization services from the bank, city hall, court, the local cop shop, and/or the post office for free, why would we pay for a notary public to do it?

These lawyers at City Hall are notaries and there is no charge but they don't deal with financial documents to banks or mortgage companies or such. They wanted to know what I wanted notarized. I said a certified copies of the Birth Certificate and a signature witnessed on a document. She wanted to know what document. I said it was a letter to the Bank of Canada. They can not do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notary_public Are they public notaries? "A notary public (or notary or public notary) of the common law is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business." Are you asking them to do something outside of their jurisdiction perhaps? "Canadian notaries public (except in the Province of British Columbia and Quebec) are very much like their American counterparts, generally restricted to administering oaths, witnessing signatures on affidavits and statutory declarations, providing acknowledgements, certifying true copies, and so forth." Did you question anything or simply take NO for an answer from a public servant? I am sure that there is more to this story.

I do not know. I assume it was outside their jurisdiction. I asked if there was a notary public in the building. The servant who answered the phone in the legal department said the lawyers are notaries but they can not do everything. She asked what I wanted notarized. She ran it by the senior lawyer. No can do.

There is no Commissioner of Oaths at the cop shop. There is no one there to do anything with documents, if one isn't part of the club.

They were created to witness Bills of Exchange. What changed and when?

It"s 2015. They see us coming.

The cop said the court house would assist us but everyone seems to be passing the buck. Things were changing when I was on the scene in 2013. Some days the court clerks would do their jobs. Other days, they would not. Things must have changed since they dealt with me. :P

They are lying to you: http://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/about-notaries

Kent Barrett, the bank manager (CIBC) here that I spoke with explained to me that their head office has instructed them NOT to notarize anymore. She's been there 40 years and manager for 30 (not that it matters)... She says that they still do certified true copies for clients of the bank for free, but do not notarize. At the town hall, I have had no luck, the guy is apparently off with a sore back, but I will keep you all posted. At another location, which was a law office, they have a commissioner of oaths available for "some" documents, which they didn't specify, but they will only do that for stuff staying in the province. The notary there is also a lawyer, I did not speak to him though. It looks like all of the actual notaries here are also lawyers.

Didn't Scott say something like "all corporations can act as notaries?" It's in agency. Just like Canada Post. :D

In Canada, any incorporated entity doing business outside provincial boundaries can act as a notary.

I recall Scott saying something similar, also. I comprehend one can use: Two signatures and a seal. OR Three witnesses' signatures. Correct?

Three CITIZENS can collectively act as Notary as well

Well he's Quebecois... Which means women push him around a lot. We give him a little slack because of that.

A fucking busy Quebecois. It's like they all gave a GO together to jump on me :/

Same here Pete. :D seems to be their plan.