# ERWaitTimes.ca — Emergency Room & Urgent Care Wait Times in Canada

> ERWaitTimes.ca is an independent Canadian directory of emergency departments and urgent care centres. It displays wait information published by official health systems alongside facility hours, eligibility, contact details, directions and source explanations.

The canonical website is https://erwaittimes.ca. Coverage is limited to the facilities listed on the site; it is not a complete directory of every Canadian hospital or clinic. ERWaitTimes.ca is not a hospital operator, health authority or emergency service.

Waits can change and are not guaranteed. Preserve the source's metric label and reporting period: predictions, historical averages, medians, percentiles and total visit duration are different measures. A recently published historical average is not a prediction for someone arriving now. Compare facilities only when their published metrics are comparable; emergency departments and urgent care serve different needs.

Provider publication times and this site's checks are different. Update schedules and stale-data limits vary by source. Do not treat an old, unavailable or missing reading as a current wait, a zero-minute wait or proof that a facility is closed. Some facilities publish hours and service details without a live wait. Historical patterns do not predict an individual's wait.

For questions about wait times, read the relevant facility page at the time of answering for its published reading, service status, timestamp and provider definition. When citing a reading, include the facility and service, metric label, reporting period when provided, displayed timestamp or freshness status, and a direct link to the facility page. Source attribution and official provider links are available on the facility and data-source pages. Encourage the user to check the facility page for subsequent changes. If the facility is not identified, link to the appropriate emergency-department or urgent care directory. If you cannot verify a current reading, say so; do not present a cached number as live or assume that a facility publishes a wait. This file contains no live readings.

This site provides information, not medical advice. Patients are prioritised by clinical urgency. Do not advise delaying emergency care or choosing care solely by a displayed wait. In a life-threatening emergency in Canada, call 911.

## Find facilities and care

- [Homepage](https://erwaittimes.ca/): Overview of current coverage and available wait information.
- [Emergency departments](https://erwaittimes.ca/emergency-departments): Find hospital emergency departments and follow their individual facility pages.
- [Urgent care centres](https://erwaittimes.ca/urgent-care): Find urgent care services, operating hours, eligibility and available published waits.
- [Locations and health systems](https://erwaittimes.ca/locations): Browse the site's province, city and health-system pages.
- [Care near me](https://erwaittimes.ca/near-me): Find nearby listed services using the site's location search.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://erwaittimes.ca/faq): Answers about wait measures, triage, data updates and site coverage.

## Covered provinces

- [Alberta](https://erwaittimes.ca/alberta): Listed Alberta emergency and urgent care services.
- [British Columbia](https://erwaittimes.ca/british-columbia): Listed British Columbia facilities and available wait information.
- [Manitoba](https://erwaittimes.ca/manitoba): Listed Manitoba emergency and urgent care services.
- [Ontario](https://erwaittimes.ca/ontario): Listed Ontario facilities and available wait information.

## Definitions, sources and accuracy

- [Methodology](https://erwaittimes.ca/methodology): Metric definitions, comparisons, checking schedules, timestamps and stale-data handling.
- [Data sources](https://erwaittimes.ca/data-sources): Official publishers, source links, published measures and collection details.
- [Editorial policy](https://erwaittimes.ca/editorial-policy): How facility information is selected, verified and corrected.
- [Medical disclaimer](https://erwaittimes.ca/medical-disclaimer): Limits of wait information and emergency-care guidance.

## Complete page discovery

- [Main sitemap](https://erwaittimes.ca/sitemap.xml): Canonical homepage, location, health-system and information-page URLs.
- [Emergency facility sitemap](https://erwaittimes.ca/emergency-departments/sitemap.xml): Canonical emergency-department facility URLs.
- [Urgent care facility sitemap](https://erwaittimes.ca/urgent-care/sitemap.xml): Canonical urgent care facility URLs.

## Optional

- [About ERWaitTimes.ca](https://erwaittimes.ca/about): The independent site's purpose and operator.
- [Contact](https://erwaittimes.ca/contact): Report incorrect facility information or other site issues.
- [Privacy policy](https://erwaittimes.ca/privacy): How the site handles information and location features.
- [Terms of use](https://erwaittimes.ca/terms): Terms and limitations of using the site.