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Canadian License Plate Visual Guide

Designs last verified: August 2026

Tagspot scores plates from all 13 Canadian provinces and territories as real, tappable bonus plates — Alberta down to Yukon. This page is the visual companion to the US plate guide: what each Canadian plate actually looks like, so you can match a design at a glance instead of squinting at a moving car.

13 provinces and territories below have a confirmed, currently-issued design with a properly sourced image — see the credits at the bottom for exactly where each one came from.

Current standard-issue license plate from Alberta
AlbertaPlain white with a red wild rose and blue "Alberta" script — "Wild Rose Country" has been the plate's slogan since the design settled in 1984. A turquoise "Moraine Lake" redesign is rolling out through 2026, but this is still the plate actually on most Alberta cars.
Current standard-issue license plate from British Columbia
British ColumbiaBlue lettering on white with "Beautiful British Columbia" arched at top and a small waving BC-flag graphic splitting the serial — a design that's barely changed since 1985.
Current standard-issue license plate from Manitoba
ManitobaA black bison silhouette sits top-right over a lake-and-wheat-field scene, with "Friendly Manitoba" in blue script — the current design has been issued since late 2012.
Current standard-issue license plate from New Brunswick
New BrunswickWhite plate with curved gold-and-sky-blue bands at top carrying a small red galley-ship logo and the bilingual "New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick" wordmark — this exact band design has been standard since 2011.
Current standard-issue license plate from Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and LabradorBlue serial on a silvery-white plate with a small pitcher-plant graphic — the pitcher plant is the provincial flower and has anchored NL's plate design since 2007, most recently refreshed in a November 2025 reissue.
Current standard-issue license plate from Northwest Territories
Northwest TerritoriesThe plate itself is shaped like a polar bear, not a rectangle — a design NWT has used since 1970. This blue-sky-gradient "Spectacular Northwest Territories" version has been the standard since July 2010.
Current standard-issue license plate from Nova Scotia
Nova ScotiaA pale blue silhouette of the schooner Bluenose splits the serial — the same ship on the Canadian dime — over "Canada's Ocean Playground," a slogan Nova Scotia has used on its plates since the 1970s.
Current standard-issue license plate from Nunavut
NunavutAlso bear-shaped: a yellow-outlined polar bear with a red inuksuk splitting the serial and bilingual English/Inuktitut "Nunavut" text. Nunavut brought this shape back in summer 2025 for its 25th anniversary, after 13 years on a rectangular plate.
Current standard-issue license plate from Ontario
OntarioWhite plate, blue serial split by a small crown, "Yours to Discover" along the bottom. Ontario briefly swapped to an all-blue plate in 2019–2020, but scrapped it over nighttime-visibility complaints and brought this classic design back.
Current standard-issue license plate from Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward IslandGreen lettering on white with the provincial coat of arms — a gold lion over a young oak sheltered by three older oaks — centered between the letters and numbers, plus a small Canadian flag at bottom left. Introduced in 2022.
Current standard-issue license plate from Quebec
QuebecNavy blue serial on white with a small blue fleur-de-lys crest and "Je me souviens" ("I remember") along the bottom — Quebec's official motto, on its plates continuously since 1978.
Current standard-issue license plate from Saskatchewan
SaskatchewanGreen lettering on white with three gold wheat stalks splitting the serial and "Land of Living Skies" underneath — the wheat nods to Saskatchewan growing more of Canada's grain than any other province.
Current standard-issue license plate from Yukon
Yukon"The Klondike" arches over black serial text, with a gold-panning prospector graphic at left and "Yukon" on a sky-blue band at the bottom — the same gold-rush prospector has appeared on Yukon plates since 1952.

Image credits

Most photos on this page are sourced from Wikimedia Commons and used under their original license. Prince Edward Island and Quebec use official/community blank-plate artwork rather than a photo, and Nunavut uses the territorial government's own press image for its 2025 redesign, since it's too recent to have a Commons photo yet. Click a province's source link to see where its image came from.