Who to ask, place by place
The bodies that issue a licence, the ones that assess qualifications for them, and the ones that run apprenticeship. Only the first kind grants anything; the others are part of the route to it. An address is useful even where we have not published a pathway, which is why this page exists on its own.
47 bodies, oldest check October 22, 2026.
Being allowed to work in an occupation and being allowed to come to Canada are two separate decisions, made by two different bodies. Nothing on this page is part of your immigration assessment, no rule in that assessment reads it, and meeting everything here does not make you eligible for any immigration program. The reverse is also true: an immigration approval gives nobody permission to practise a regulated occupation.
Canada
Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship (Red Seal Program)
Sector body · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
Assessment body for the regulator · Nursing
Alberta
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta
Regulator · Professional engineering
Apprenticeship and Industry Training
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
British Columbia
Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia
Regulator · Professional engineering
Inspire Global Assessments
Assessment body for the regulator · Nursing
Manitoba
Apprenticeship Manitoba
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
New Brunswick
Engineers and Geoscientists New Brunswick
Regulator · Professional engineering
Apprenticeship and Occupational Certification Branch
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Newfoundland and Labrador
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador
Regulator · Professional engineering
Apprenticeship and Trades Certification Division
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Northwest Territories
College of Nurses of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Regulator · Nursing
Northwest Territories and Nunavut Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists
Regulator · Professional engineering
Apprenticeship, Trades and Occupations
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Nunavut
College of Nurses of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Regulator · Nursing
Northwest Territories and Nunavut Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists
Regulator · Professional engineering
Apprenticeship, Trade and Occupations Certification
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Ontario
Skilled Trades Ontario
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
STOchecked October 22, 2026International Credential Assessment Service of Canada
Assessment body for the regulator · Nursing
International Credential Evaluation Service, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Assessment body for the regulator · Nursing
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island College of Nursing and Midwifery
Regulator · Nursing
Apprenticeship Section, Education and Lifelong Learning
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Quebec
Centre administratif de la qualification professionnelle
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Saskatchewan
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan
Regulator · Professional engineering
Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Yukon
Apprenticeship Training, Yukon Education
Apprenticeship authority · Skilled trades and apprenticeship
Every body here was entered by hand from its own official page, so there are bodies missing
This is not a complete directory of regulated occupations in Canada. A pathway becomes public only when one of our lawyers publishes it, which they may do only where every mandatory requirement on it rests on an excerpt from the regulator’s own page: publishing records the lawyer’s name and the day, so there are occupations and provinces we simply have not reached. Where we have not, we say so and send you to the official lookup and to the regulator itself, which are the places that can answer for your case in any event.