Bringing Money and Items into Canada

[xfilez76]

Moving to Canada next year so I want to plan ahead. It's likely that I'll be driving and crossing the border into Canada. Since shipping can be expensive, I'll likely be selling most of my belongs and pack my car with what I can bring. A few questions...

1) How much money and assets (like gold) can I bring in as a new immigrant?
2) How detailed a list do I need for my belongings in the car? Do I need to call out their values? Reading a couple of threads here... seems like as long as I do a decent job in documenting my belongings, it'll be fine.
3) Do I need to pay off my car before I can import it? Or would I be able to continue financing through a US financial company?

Any insights would be much appreciated!

 

[scylla]

Moving to Canada next year so I want to plan ahead. It's likely that I'll be driving and crossing the border into Canada. Since shipping can be expensive, I'll likely be selling most of my belongs and pack my car with what I can bring. A few questions...

1) How much money and assets (like gold) can I bring in as a new immigrant?
2) How detailed a list do I need for my belongings in the car? Do I need to call out their values? Reading a couple of threads here... seems like as long as I do a decent job in documenting my belongings, it'll be fine.
3) Do I need to pay off my car before I can import it? Or would I be able to continue financing through a US financial company?

Any insights would be much appreciated!

1) As much as you want as long as you declare all of it. There's no limit.
2) Yes, you want to do a decent job. Obviously you don't want to document down to the level of an individual pair of socks. However you want to call out larger more expensive items (e.g. TV).
3) You'll need to pay off your care before you can import it.