Katherine Pomerleau, Commissioner of Oaths

Commissioner of Oaths for the Moncton Area

Katherine Pomerleau is a Commissioner of Oaths for New Brunswick. She is based at Grand-Barachois, east of Shediac, and is available in the Moncton area by arrangement. The service is administering oaths and affirmations and witnessing statutory declarations and affidavits — done in person, with the person signing present.

Where the region's paperwork ends up

Moncton is the largest of the three communities in Greater Moncton, and it is where much of the region's official business is concentrated: offices, institutions and the services that people from the surrounding towns travel in to reach. That concentration is why so many forms in this region end up needing a sworn signature — not because Moncton generates more of them, but because the offices that require them are here, and their deadlines are what set the pace.

By arrangement, and what that means in practice

There is no walk-in office in Moncton. Appointments are arranged in advance, which suits documents that are known about ahead of time — an affidavit for a filing, a declaration supporting an application, a consent letter before a trip. It suits an emergency less well, so the honest advice is to deal with a form when it arrives rather than the day it is due.

The trip, in the other direction

Most services in this region work by having people come into Moncton. A commissioner who travels by arrangement inverts that for the one errand where inverting it is easy: the appointment is short, it needs no equipment, and the only requirements are the person, the unsigned document and identification. For someone taking time off work, or arranging care in order to get out of the house, having the signature come to them is often the difference between the form being done and the form waiting another week.

Bring the document unsigned, along with identification. Please note that a commissioner of oaths is not a notary public: she does not notarize or certify documents, and cannot draft a document or advise on its contents.