Every year, thousands of people move to Ottawa from Toronto — for federal careers, for family-sized houses that don't require winning a lottery, and for a city where the commute is measured in minutes. If you're one of them, welcome. Discount Moving & Storage is the Ottawa end of this route: our crews load in Toronto and deliver across the capital, and we know both ends of the 401.
Our full route guide lives on the blog — moving to Ottawa from Toronto — while this page covers booking the move itself and what to expect when the truck rolls into your new Ottawa neighbourhood.
How a Toronto → Ottawa move is booked
It works in reverse of our outbound route, with one advantage: your mover is based where you're going. We start with a video or Toronto walkthrough to build your inventory and flat quote. Load day happens at your Toronto home or condo — elevator booked, insurance certificate provided — and the truck drives the roughly 450 km to Ottawa, with delivery typically the next day.
Because we're Ottawa-based, delivery day is home turf: our crews know the condo towers of Centretown and the new builds of Barrhaven equally well, and if your Ottawa possession slips, your load can rest in our local storage instead of a stranger's warehouse in another city.
A newcomer's notes on Ottawa neighbourhoods
Toronto movers are often surprised by Ottawa's layout. The downtown core (Centretown, Sandy Hill, the Glebe) has older housing stock, tighter streets, and condo rules much like Toronto's. Kanata is the tech hub — Ottawa's "Silicon Valley North" — with suburban family housing about 25 minutes west. Nepean and Barrhaven offer newer family homes to the southwest; Orléans serves the francophone east end. Manotick and Rockcliffe are the prestige pockets.
Tell us where you're landing and we'll flag the moving-day specifics — from Glebe street parking to Kanata's wide driveways — in your plan. Our Kanata, Nepean, and Orléans pages each read like a local's briefing.