The high commission is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital city.
New Zealand has maintained a resident high commissioner in Canada since 1942.
Until 2014 the high commissioner to Canada also held accreditation to: Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.
At that time a post was established in Bridgetown, Barbados with non-resident accreditation to many other isles in the Caribbean transferred.
[1] As fellow members of the Commonwealth of Nations, diplomatic relations between New Zealand and Canada are at governmental level, rather than between heads of state.