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Lake Bonavista Movers, Calgary

Cactus has completed over 45 residential moves inside Lake Bonavista’s own community boundary, 20 of them in the last twelve months. Here is what they cost, how long they ran and what the City wants at the curb.

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Movers in Lake Bonavista: what we know about moving here

Lake Bonavista is a settled community of owned detached houses with a fifth of its homes in apartments alongside them, and the work that produces is bigger than what the southeast communities around it send us. Twenty per cent of the moves here graded large against 8% across that ring, and the dispatched median is three movers rather than two.

The median job runs 4.38 hours on site across 46 completed moves, a shade above the 4.25 across the same set, and the median priced move came to $963 across 30 of them against $790. The band is where the difference really shows: half of the local jobs here fell between $561 and $1,500, reaching a good deal further up than the $497 to $1,263 the ring records. Twenty of the moves ran in the last twelve months.

Lake Bonavista neighbourhood guide for moving day

This panel is a community of owned detached houses with a fifth of its homes in apartments alongside them, settled since the 1960s and 1970s. For most addresses that means a driveway rather than a lobby, a possession date rather than a lease end, and a whole-house load. That is why the dispatched median here is three movers rather than two. For the apartment fifth, the elevator and the loading door are worth booking ahead. If the truck has to hold road space, Calgary's Street Use Permit is stated at $31.50 a day for shorter-term use, includes the temporary no-parking permit, and takes 5 days to arrange.

Lake Bonavista is largely built out in the 1960s/1970s

2019 municipal census · the City’s own community-structure label

People
10,145
One-person households
23%

2021 federal census

Homes
4,108

People per household

2.5

2021 federal census

What people live in
  • 80% single-detached houses
  • 20% apartments
Owned or rented
  • 86% owned
  • 14% rented

2019 municipal census

Booking the curb

Street Use Permit (with an accompanying Temporary No Parking Permit)

City of Calgary
What it costs
Street Use Permit stated at $31.50 per day for shorter-term use; the Temporary No Parking Permit is included in the Street Use Permit cost. ParkPlus parking fees apply on top if the restriction is in a paid parking zone.
How much notice
Apply at least 5 days in advance of the planned work for lower-impact work such as a residential move. Incomplete applications, revisions, or changes after submission can extend these timelines.
Where Lake Bonavista is. A locator map from Google, not a coverage map.

Not sure whether your street needs a Street Use Permit for the truck? Booking the curb in Lake Bonavista is something we do every week: talk to our Calgary team

Lake Bonavista moving costs, by the numbers

Everything above is drawn from residential moves attributed to Lake Bonavista's own community boundary since 2024: over 45 of them in total, 20 within the last twelve months. The all-time count is a floor; the twelve-month figure is exact. Hours and crew size rest on 46 jobs and the cost band on 30, which is a big enough sample that the $561 to $1,500 spread is worth planning against rather than treating as noise.

What a local move cost
$963 median

half fell between $561 and $1,500 · based on 30 residential moves, total cost with tax

Residential moves in Lake Bonavista
over 45

attributed to the neighbourhood’s own boundary since 2024

In the last 12 months
20

an exact count, not a floor

Crew hours on site
4.38 median

half of these moves ran 2.06–6.5 hours · 46 moves

Crew size
3 movers median

half of these moves used 2–4 · 46 moves

Simplified outline of the official Lake Bonavista community boundary in Calgary, with a dot marking its centre.
Lake Bonavista’s own community boundary about 2.7 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in Lake Bonavista actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 46 completed residential jobs in Lake Bonavista. Another 21 were storage runs, container loads and part-home jobs whose paperwork records no bedroom count; they belong to none of the four.

Clay-style illustration of a one-bedroom move in Lake Bonavista: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A one-bedroom move in Lake Bonavista

$469
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $383 and $754 · 7 moves

  • 2.75 hours on site half ran 2.63–3.75 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

One-bedroom jobs are 15% of the work we have completed in Lake Bonavista and by some way the shortest: 2.75 hours on site at the median with two movers and one truck, and half of the 7 falling between $383 and $754. A bed, a sofa, a table and boxes is the whole load, and a job this size is finished inside a morning. Seven moves is a small sample, but a tight one, and the work at this size does not vary much from address to address.

15% of the moves we have completed in Lake Bonavista · 7 moves

Clay-style illustration of a two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Southeast Calgary: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Southeast Calgary

$878
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $660 and $1,256 · 254 moves

  • 5 hours on site half ran 3.75–6.44 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Two bedrooms across southeast Calgary is a two-mover, one-truck job at a 5-hour median on site, with half of the 254 at this size between $660 and $1,256. That is nearly twice the day of a one-bedroom for one extra room, and the reason is that a second bedroom seldom arrives alone: it comes with a second set of boxes and usually a bigger sofa. Because the rate is hourly, finishing the boxing beforehand is the most reliable way to hold a job near the front of that band.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southeast Calgary, across 254 moves.

Clay-style illustration of a three-bedroom house move in Lake Bonavista: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A three-bedroom house move in Lake Bonavista

$2,288
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,856 and $2,888 · 7 moves

  • 9 hours on site half ran 8.25–10 hours
  • 4 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Three-bedroom jobs are 15% of the Lake Bonavista book and the longest day on this page: 9 hours on site at the median with 4 movers and one truck, and half of the 7 landing between $1,856 and $2,888. That is what a settled detached house asks for. Three bedrooms come with everything a basement and a garage have collected since the 1960s and 1970s. On 7 moves the band is the honest read, and a walkthrough before the date is what places a particular home inside it.

15% of the moves we have completed in Lake Bonavista · 7 moves

Clay-style illustration of a four-bedroom-plus house move in Lake Bonavista: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A four-bedroom-plus house move in Lake Bonavista

$1,398
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $893 and $2,016 · 9 moves

  • 6.25 hours on site half ran 4.75–7.5 hours
  • 4 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Four-bedroom-plus work is 20% of the Lake Bonavista book across 9 completed jobs, and it comes in under the three-bedroom card: a $1,398 median at 6.25 hours on site, against $2,288 and 9 hours. Both sizes are dispatched with 4 movers and one truck, and both rest on small samples, nine moves and seven, which is most of what separates them. Half of these nine fell between $893 and $2,016, and how much was boxed beforehand decides where inside that a day lands.

20% of the moves we have completed in Lake Bonavista · 9 moves

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How much does it cost to move in Lake Bonavista?

The median local move in Lake Bonavista costs $963, total cost with tax, across the 30 residential jobs priced here, with half of them falling between $561 and $1,500. That is above the $790 median across the 28 southeast Calgary communities around it.

  • What does a one-bedroom move in Lake Bonavista cost?

    $469 is the median for a one-bedroom move in Lake Bonavista, from 7 completed jobs, with half of them between $383 and $754. That is two movers, one truck and 2.75 hours on site. It is the shortest day of the four sizes on this page, finished inside a morning. One-bedroom work is 15% of everything we have done inside the boundary.

  • What does a three-bedroom move in Lake Bonavista cost?

    $2,288 is the median for a three-bedroom move in Lake Bonavista, from 7 completed jobs, with half of them between $1,856 and $2,888. That is 4 movers, one truck and 9 hours on site, the longest day on this page by a distance. Three-bedroom work is 15% of what we have done here, so read the band rather than the midpoint.

  • Why does a four-bedroom move here cost less than a three-bedroom?

    It does on our record, and both figures are small samples rather than a rule: the four-bedroom-plus median is $1,398 across 9 jobs and the three-bedroom median is $2,288 across 7. Both sizes are dispatched with 4 movers and one truck. On seven and nine moves, two medians that far apart say more about which particular homes we happened to move than about what a fourth bedroom costs.

  • How many movers come on a Lake Bonavista move?

    Three is the dispatched median in Lake Bonavista, and half of the 46 completed moves used between two and four. That follows the work rather than the address: 20% of the moves here grade large against 8% across the surrounding southeast communities. A larger crew is a higher hourly rate and usually a shorter day, which is the trade being made at that size.

  • Why does a move in Lake Bonavista cost more than in the communities around it?

    Because more of the work here is large: 20% of Lake Bonavista moves grade large against 8% across the 28 southeast Calgary communities in the set below. The rate is the same hourly rate everywhere Cactus works in Calgary. What differs is how many hours a bigger home takes and how many movers it needs: a $963 median against $790, and a band reaching $1,500 against $1,263.

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Moving to Lake Bonavista, or out of it

Departures lead the Lake Bonavista moves on our books: 24 out, 17 in, and 5 that ran from one Lake Bonavista address to another. In a community owned rather than rented almost throughout, a departure is usually a sale closing rather than a lease ending. The date arrives fixed, with months of notice behind it, and the day has to fit between two handovers.

The 17 arrivals are the same kind of date from the other side. In either direction, on a book where 20% of the work grades large, the realistic booking is a full day rather than a morning: the median here is 4.38 hours on site, but half the jobs reach as far as 6.5.

Real Customers. Real Movers. Real Reviews.

Five-star Google reviews from customers whose move Cactus completed, newest first, preferring the ones whose job falls inside Lake Bonavista’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.

730 five-star reviews with a written comment on our Calgary listing since May 2021

  • 5 out of 5

    Very professional Took extra care to wrap my furniture to ensure safety and padded the ground to protect the floor. With all that said managed to get moved in faster than expected. Overall would recommend Cactus moving again.

    jordan aamodt

    moved from Rangeview to Lake Bonavista, August 2025 · 1 bedroom

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  • 5 out of 5

    Great service, no surprises, on time with great communication, Mitchell and Karter are awesome 👏

    Catherine Kelly

    November 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    To say my experience with Cactus Moving exceeded my expectations is an understatement. Nolan, Mo, and another gentlemen (whose name I forgot! I’m so sorry! ) worked expeditiously to both load and offload my boxes and items.

    Timi Abiola

    November 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    Cactus came highly recommended by my real estate agent! The team is highly professional, responsive and organized. They offer any service you might need for a move! I was grateful for their very reasonable prices and excellent service! thanks so much!

    Eleonaure Dufour

    November 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    Thank you so much for a great service. Vlad and Dima they did a good job!

    Rita Gerchikov

    November 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    The booking process went smoothly and the quote was accurate. The team that moved us were great. They were efficient, effective and did a great job protecting the house from damage during the move.

    Scott F.

    November 2023

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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

Lake Bonavista is counted among 28 southeast Calgary communities sharing 1,094 moves, with Seton, Mahogany, Cranston, Auburn Bay, Copperfield and Legacy the busiest of them. Its own jobs cost more and reach higher: a $963 median against $790, and a band topping out at $1,500 against $1,263. Larger crews on larger homes is most of the explanation, since 20% of the work here grades large against 8% across the set. Each page linked below carries its own figures.

Measure Lake Bonavista Southeast Calgary
Median local move $963 $790
Median crew hours on site half of Lake Bonavista’s ran 2.06–6.5 hours 4.38 hrs 4.25 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job 48% 60%
Graded a large move 20% 8%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published August, July and May August, May and July
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 28 communities, this one and everything next to it over 45 1,094

In Lake Bonavista or any of the neighbours beside it, the crew and the hourly rate are the same. Tell us the address

Figures come from Cactus’s own completed residential moves (business and high-frequency accounts excluded) and from official municipal open data; they are medians and quartiles, never averages, every published figure rests on at least five moves, percentages are rounded, and all-time counts are floors because some older pickup and drop-off addresses were never geocoded.

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