title: Embassy of Mexico, Ottawa
text: # Embassy of Mexico, Ottawa
  
  The Embassy of Mexico in Canada, based out of Ottawa, is the primary diplomatic mission from the United Mexican States to Canada.
  
  Relations between the two nations were formally established on 30 January 1944, with Mexico eventually opening a consulate in Montreal in 1952. This consulate was later upgraded to an embassy and moved to Ottawa.
  
  ## Location
  
  The Embassy is located at 45 O´Connor Street, Suite 1000, Ottawa, Ontario.
  
  ## Ambassadors
  
  The following is a list of Ambassadors from Mexico to Canada since the formation of relations:
  
  | Term | Ambassador | President |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1944 – 1946 | Francisco del Río y Cañedo | Manuel Ávila Camacho |
  | 1946 – 1946 | José Luis Ignacio Rodríguez Taboada | Manuel Ávila Camacho |
  | 1946 – 1947 | Armando González Mendoza (Interim) | Miguel Alemán Valdés |
  | 1947 – 1952 | Primo Villa Michel | Miguel Alemán Valdés |
  | 1952 – 1953 | Juan Manuel Álvarez del Castillo | Alemán Valdés Adolfo Ruiz Cortines |
  | 1953 – 1954 | Ignacio Daniel Silva Arias (Interim) | Ruiz Cortines |
  | 1954 – 1956 | Salvador Pardo Bolland (Interim) | Ruiz Cortines |
  | 1956 – 1959 | Manuel Maples Arce | Ruiz Cortines Adolfo López Mateos |
  | 1959 – 1962 | Rafael de la Colina Riquelme | López Mateos |
  | 1962 – 1965 | Rafael Urdaneta de la Tour | López Mateos Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
  | 1965 – 1968 | Pedro Suinaga Luján | Díaz Ordaz |
  | 1968 – 1977 | Rafael Urdaneta de la Tour | Díaz Ordaz Luis Echeverría José López Portillo |
  | 1977 – 1983 | Agustín Barrios-Gómez-Méndez | López Portillo Miguel de la Madrid |
  | 1983 – 1987 | José Andrés de Oteyza Fernández | Madrid |
  | 1987 – 1989 | Ángel Emilio Carrillo Gamboa | Madrid Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
  | 1989 – 1991 | Alfredo Phillips Olmedo | Salinas de Gortari |
  | 1991 – 1993 | Jorge de la Vega Domínguez | Salinas de Gortari |
  | 1993 – 1998 | Sandra Camila Antonia Fuentes-Beráin Villenave | Salinas de Gortari Ernesto Zedillo |
  | 1998 – 2001 | Ezequiel Padilla Couttolenc | Zedillo Vicente Fox |
  | 2001 – 2006 | María Teresa García Segovia | Fox |
  | 2006 – 2009 | Emilio Rafael José Goicoechea Luna | Felipe Calderón |
  | 2009 – 2013 | Francisco Barrio Terrazas | Calderón Enrique Peña Nieto |
  | 2013 – 2015 | Francisco Suárez Dávila | Peña Nieto |
  | 2015 – 2017 | Agustín García López Loaeza | Peña Nieto |
  | 2017 – 2019 | Dionisio Pérez Jácome Friscione | Peña Nieto Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
  | 2019 – 2022 | Juan José Gómez Camacho | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
  | 2022 – 2023 | Arturo Hernández Basave | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
  | 2023 – Present | Carlos Manuel Joaquin Gonzalez | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
  
  ## Consulates
  
  Mexico also maintains three consulates general, two consulates and four honorary consulates in Canada:
  
  | Location | Consulate type | Consul | Jurisdiction |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Montreal, Quebec | Consulate general | Alejandro Estivill | Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Nunavut |
  | Toronto, Ontario | Consulate general | Porfirio Thierry Muñoz Ledo | Ontario and Manitoba |
  | Vancouver, British Columbia | Consulate general | Berenice Díaz Ceballos | British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories |
  | Calgary, Alberta | Consulate | Juana María Ruíz | Alberta and Saskatchewan |
  | Leamington, Ontario | Consulate | Darío Alberto Bernal Acero | Essex County (South) and Ontario |
  | Winnipeg, Manitoba | Honorary consulate | James Erwin Downey | N/A |
  | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia | Honorary consulate | Galo Carrera | N/A |
  | Quebec, Quebec | Honorary consulate | Micheline Dessureault | N/A |
  | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | Honorary consulate | Edward Scott Mcclellan | N/A |
  
  Additionally, the following government secretariat departments also maintain attaché offices in the Ottawa Embassy:
  
  * Secretariat of National Defense (Military and Air Attaché Office)
  * Secretariat of the Navy (Naval Attaché Office)
  * Secretariat of the Economy
  