Many online dating sites have popped up and this has taken Canadians and foreigners alike by storm. One thing that you’ll notice about the Canadian dating sites is their similarity with the best online dating sites in the US. There are some differences but the dating sites that are popular in the United States will also be popular here.

What makes a great dating site?

• Lots of members
• A clean and easy to navigate interface
• A decent male to female ratio

To have success in the Canadian dating site, you must live near a big city like Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, and Edmonton. These cities have many available singles and you’ll find plenty of hot women and men of all sizes, shapes, and color.

One thing that you should keep in mind on all dating sites is there are a lot of fake profiles.

How do you spot fake profiles?

This is easy, if someone has one picture posted, wearing revealing clothes and taking suggestive poses, these are clear signs to stay away.

Only send direct messages or DMs to people with well-written and interesting profiles. If someone has a dull profile, chances are they are boring in real life.

Plenty of Fish

There is a lot of potential or plenty of fish on this dating site. This is a highly rated website with more than 100 million visitors per month and 11 million registered users. This makes POF.com the largest online dating site in the world.

How to get potential matches

This site gives you a couple of options to find new matches. They are as follows:

• Meet me: a user is shown random pictures; you’ll be asked if you want to meet them and notified when a match is made.
• Automatic: matches are recommended based on your preferences, site activity, and location.

Unique Site Features

This website has a number of personality tests to help you find better matches. These tests include relationship need assessment, seduction style guide, is your love a keeper, psychological assessment and relationship assessment.

This site has free and paid versions and you must upgrade to see full profiles, see your profile viewers, customize the themes, upload more photos, send virtual gifts, and more.

Supported regions: Canada, United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, and France.

Match.com

This is one of the largest dating sites around and has a lot of unique features like a mutual match, reverse match, dates park and stir events. The best thing about this site is its guarantee that stipulates that if you don’t find a match within 6 months, you will receive 6 additional months at no cost.

How to locate a match

• Basic search: If you share a birthday with me, today’s their birthday, mutual matches, reverse matches and perfect matches.
• Advance search: you can choose various filters to narrow your searches like age, appearance, location, and lifestyle.
• Shuffle: you get random pictures where you like or dislike them. You will get a notification when you get a like (match).

Unique site features

This website hosts real-world events for members. To be included, click the events tab at the top of the web page to view the listings and be added to the guest list.

The free version of the site doesn’t have full features such as live chat with members and customer care, check those who have viewed your profile etc.

Supported regions: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

eHarmony.ca

The best feature of the site is its 29 foundational relationship dimensions and provides one of the most in-depth dating services around. On average, 236 people who met on this site are married every day. This is the site to be on if you’re looking for a serious relationship.

How to find potential matches

The site will go through your profile and compare your test results with other users to find a match for you.

Unique Features

• eHarmony mail: this is the basic eHarmony messaging feature.
• Quick questions: you can send 5 questions from 55 options and your match will choose pre-written answers and also reply with 5 questions of their own.

The site has a free, basic and TotalConnect (premium).

Supported regions: Canada, US, UK, Italy, Australia, New Zealand and International regions.

Lavalife

If you’re looking for a website for casual dating, relationship, and intimate encounters, then this dating site is perfect for you. If you’re on the free version, you can search, flirt, send and receive messages.

How to find the right match

The site doesn’t provide any matches for you, you have to manually track them down and you can filter according to age, education, ethnicity, location, body-type, religion, interests and many more.

Unique Site Features

You can create different profiles with separate photos and taglines using one single account to ensure anonymity. There’s also a group video chat known as “parties” five times a day.

Supported regions: the United States and Canada.