Renew Your Ontario Outdoors Card in Time for the New Year

Ensure Your Ontario Outdoors Card is Valid to Hunt or Fish in Ontario

If you are planning to fish or hunt in Ontario next year, be sure your Outdoors Card is up to date.
The Outdoors Card is valid for three calendar years from the date of issue. If your card expires at the end of 2016, now is the time to renew it.

An Outdoors Card is required before buying a fishing licence or a hunting licence tag.

An Outdoors Card is valid for three calendar years. The Outdoors Card renewal period starts the first Tuesday of December every year.

Apply for your first Outdoors Card

The cost to buy, renew or replace your lost, stolen or damaged Outdoors Card is $8.57 +HST.

Complete the Ontario Hunter Education Course (if applicable)
Go in-person to a participating ServiceOntario Centre
Provide your:
1. first and last name
2. home and mailing address
3. date of birth
4. height and eye colour
Present valid credentials:H1 hunting version Outdoors Card

Ontario Hunter Education Examination Report (issued after January 1, 1968 and before January 1, 2006)
Ontario resident’s hunting licence (issued between January 1, 1968, and January 1, 1993)
Ontario Hunting Licence Verification Certificate (issued after January 1, 1968, and before January 1, 1993), or proof that you passed the Ontario Hunter Education Course Examination after January 1, 1968, and before January 1, 2006
Ontario Hunter Education Examination Report (issued to you after January 1, 2006) plus proof of passing the Canadian Firearms Safety Course exam

QUICK FACTS

An Outdoors Card costs $8.57 (plus service fee) for three years.
Last year, about 657,000 Outdoors Cards were sold in Ontario.
Anglers bought approximately 1 million licences to fish in 2015 and hunters bought approximately 500,000 hunting licences.
All revenue from the sales of hunting and fishing licences in Ontario is used for wildlife and fisheries management.