Student Movers Across Canada

A bed, a desk, a chair, a bookcase and eight to fifteen boxes. That load fits two movers and a 16 foot truck with room to spare, and it is over in a couple of hours when the stairs behave. Cactus books it the same way it books anything else, which means a written estimate first and hourly billing after, rather than a flat number invented over the phone.

The complications are almost always at the ends rather than in the middle. Residence buildings have move in windows and a lift everybody wants at once. Shared houses have a landlord who wants the keys back at noon. A rented storage unit has an access gate that closes at six. Tell the office which of those apply and the day gets built around them.

Hourly, with the rate following the crew and the truck, and a two hour minimum. A single room often lands close to that minimum, which is why the office will ask whether a housemate is moving on the same day: two rooms on one booking usually costs each person less than two separate visits.

One operations fee covers the office coordination, and nothing is added for fuel, mileage or travel time within city limits. Stairs and a long carry from the truck are what actually stretch the hours, so both are put into the estimate before you agree to the date.

Each branch publishes its hourly rates and worked examples, including small loads at the bottom of the range.

Mississauga has 7 local moves on record, and this table publishes a price at 30 or more, so that row carries its count and no figures. A spread taken from that many jobs would look like a measurement and read like a guess. What is firm at any sample size is the hourly rate card, and every city page below publishes it.

Totals are what Cactus invoiced, in Canadian dollars with tax in, for moves whose pickup and at least one drop-off were both inside the city. Medians and quartiles, never averages, winsorised at the 5th and 95th percentile so one unusual job cannot move a band. Storage and packing materials are billed on their own agreements and are outside these totals. Measured August 30, 2026.