¢ollect ¢all — Thousands of Canadian payphones mapped. Some still work. We're as surprised as you are.   ·   Ontario leads the country. Of course it does.   ·   Claim every payphone in your city. Zack Morris would have done it already.   ·   Ontario  ·  BC  ·  Québec — still out there, completely unbothered   ·   Spotted in hospitals, campgrounds, Tim Hortons parking lots, and one very committed Esso station in Aldergrove   ·   Nobody will call you back. That's fine. Leave a message anyway.   ·   Dial 1-888-995-8969 from any payphone — it's free. So was MuchMusic in 1994.   ·  
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Submit a Payphone
Know a payphone we missed? You are our hero. Add it. Help us build the most obsessively complete payphone database in Canada. Okay that sounds a little sad. It's actually great.
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You found it. The hard part is done. Create a free account to get a Player ID, earn points, and show up on the leaderboard. Thirty seconds. Less time than it took to find the payphone, probably.
About the Payphone
National Leaderboard
Top payphone callers from coast to coast. Every point earned the old-fashioned way: by going outside, finding a payphone, and picking up the receiver. In the year 2026.
# Caller Found Points
Voicemails, Photos & Resources
Real audio from real payphones across Canada. People talking into receivers they picked up in a Tim Hortons parking lot. We love every one of them.
Recent Voicemails
The tape is blank. Someone has to be first. That someone could be you.
Find a payphone, dial 1-888-995-8969, and say something. There are worse legacies.
Community Photos
Payphone sightings submitted by callers across Canada
No photos yet. Be the first to document a Canadian payphone.
Find a phone on the map, visit it in real life, and upload a photo from its detail panel.
How to Leave a Voicemail

Nobody will call you back. That's fine. Leave a message anyway.

1Find a payphone on the map. Go there. In real life.
2Pick up the receiver. Dial 1-888-995-8969 — toll-free from the payphone.
3Enter your Player ID when prompted.
4Say something. Pretend it's your mom's answering machine in 1996 and you've got big news. Let yourself be weird about it.
Resources & Links
Payphone Directory
payphone-directory.org — The most comprehensive directory of working payphones in North America. Source of our Canadian data.
The Payphone Project
A photographic archive of payphones from around the world, including a dedicated Canadian gallery.
CRTC Communications Market Reports — Open Data
Official Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission data on payphone usage, decline, and telecommunications statistics in Canada.
In the News…
Save the payphones? Why one expert says they can't all disappear — CTV News A Vancouver man is mapping the city's remaining payphones. Here's why — CBC Vancouver's last pay phones continue to serve the community — Vancouver Sun Residents of this small B.C. community fought to keep their phone booth — and won — CBC Payphones still important in 2020 — despite their sorry state in Winnipeg's core — CBC Cost to use payphones in Atlantic Canada jumping to 50 cents, if you can find one — CBC This is what's happening to Toronto's public payphones — BlogTO Northwestel to remove payphones not used for more than a year — Cabin Radio The untapped power and potential of payphones — CBC Over 300 payphones still remain in Mississauga — insauga.com
FAQ
Questions we anticipated. And a few we probably should have anticipated sooner.
How do I play?
¢ollect ¢all is a Canadian payphone scavenger hunt. Here's how it works:
  1. Find a payphone on the map near you.
  2. Go there. In real life.
  3. Dial 1-888-995-8969 — toll-free from the payphone to make your claim. That's it! The call costs you nothing. This whole game costs you nothing. We just need you to go outside.
  4. Enter your 6-digit Player ID when prompted.
  5. Leave a voicemail — if you dare. Say something fun! It'll show up on the Voicemails page for the whole community to hear.
  6. Points: 20 for the first claim at a payphone, 10 for the second, 5 for the third, 1 for any visit after that. Nobody leaves empty-handed.
You can track your finds, climb the leaderboard, and add photos and texts to every payphone you call from. It's a whole thing. We didn't plan for it to be this much fun. Yet here we are.
How do you know which payphone I'm calling from?
Every payphone has its own phone number — its own little identity. When you call our toll-free number, we see the number you're dialing from and match it against our database of 13,217 Canadian payphone numbers. Caller ID, but make it a scavenger hunt.
What if the payphone is already claimed?
Call anyway. You still earn points, and you can leave a voicemail. Think of it as your legacy. We all leave something behind.
Can I call from the same payphone twice?
You can. The phone doesn't judge repeat callers — and frankly, neither do we. It's a small bonus every time.
Where did you get this list of payphones?
Our data comes from payphone-directory.org, a community-maintained directory of payphones across North America. We cross-referenced, geocoded, and deduplicated 3,917 unique Canadian locations — the most complete collection we know of. We spent a while on this. It was worth it.
I called from a payphone, but the system didn't recognize it.
If you found a phone we missed, use the Submit tab — that's how the database gets better. Crowd-sourced, one caller at a time. If you called from a phone that should have been recognized and wasn't, use the Submit tab and flag it as not recognized and we'll sort it out.
What happened to payphones in Canada?
Canada's payphone network peaked around 1998 and has been in freefall ever since. The CRTC publishes annual reports about it if you enjoy reading things that make you nostalgic for infrastructure you didn't realize you were losing. We started this project because someone should be keeping score. Here we are, keeping score.
Why payphones?
Because a payphone worked for anyone with (or without) a quarter. 😉 😉 No account required, no data plan, no algorithm, no "are you still watching?" A coin, a dial tone, a voice somewhere on the other end. We think that was quietly magic, and we're not ready to let it disappear without at least making a map about it.
Is there a payphone not on the map?
Most certainly, yes. Use the Submit tab to tell us about it. The database gets better every time someone walks out the door. You're that person now.
What happens when I submit a photo?
Upload a photo to help build a beautiful record of Canada's payphones — only if you like. It'll be public for everyone to see. Standout photos may also be shared on @collectcall.ca — great shots, interesting finds, things that deserve to be seen. This is a personal project, so it depends on how life is treating us. But the whole point is to have fun, go outside, and share a relic that's slowly disappearing. Let's honour the tech that served us all before it's gone.

Worth knowing upfront: photos and captions you submit to the site are public. They're visible to anyone browsing ¢ollect ¢all, associated with the payphone location, and attributed to your username. Privacy matters to us — questions or concerns, email hello@collectcall.ca. No drama.
What do you do with my data? Is my information private?
We take privacy seriously. When you create an account, we store only your chosen username, email address, and province or territory — never sold, never shared. Your Player ID is a random 6-digit number, not tied to your real name anywhere on the public-facing site. That said: voicemails you leave from payphones are public, and photos and captions you submit are public — visible on the site, attributed to your username, associated with the payphone location. That's what the game is. Your email and personal details are never exposed. You can delete your account from the My Account page. See our full Privacy Notice for details.
Does this work on mobile?
Yes. ¢ollect ¢all is fully responsive — the map, modals, leaderboard, and all the rest adapt to your phone's screen. No app to download, no separate mobile site, no QR code to scan. Just open collectcall.ca in your phone's browser and you're in.

Fair warning: finding a payphone is easier with a phone in your hand. We considered this a feature, not a bug.
The map won't load on my iPhone. What gives?
Safari has a habit of blocking cross-site requests, which is how we load map data. It means well. Try Chrome on your phone, or go to Settings → Safari → turn off Prevent Cross-Site Tracking. Either way, we forgive Safari. Mostly.
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