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Ontario licence plate: Standard blue

Retired 2020 to 2020. Standard plates for car, van, and bus, issued by Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO); plates and permits issued through ServiceOntario. One of 12 Ontario license plates.

Ontario (Canada) license plate, Standard blue (2020 to 2020), sample MHJH 973
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLL 999, for example MHJH 973 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2020 to 2020. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and bus.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #1B3A6B
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE BLUE PLATE. The Government of Ontario's own April 2019 announcement and its February 2020 update are cited by the article and were BOTH unreachable on 2026-08-02 (news.ontario.ca returned an empty body to the direct fetch, to WebFetch and to the Wayback attempt), so nothing from them is quoted.
Separators
the crown moved to the bottom right and a stylized white trillium took the separator position; still a graphic, still never part of the serial

Legal basis and sources

  1. Government of Ontario news release, 15 April 2019, announcing the redesign and the 'A Place to Grow' slogan. FETCH FAILED on 2026-08-02: news.ontario.ca served no body to either the direct fetch or the Wayback copy... https://news.ontario.ca/mgs/en/2019/04/open-for-business-and-a-place-to-grow-new-licence-plate-and-drivers-licence-to...
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-on-standard-blue-2020. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ontario's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-on \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-on-standard-blue-2020")'
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