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The arrival and establishment of adventive, invasive forest insects are a threat to the health, diversity, and productivity of forests in Canada and the world at large, and their early detection is essential for successful eradication and management. For that reason, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) conducts annual surveys at high risk sites such as international ports and freight terminals, industrial zones, and disposal sites for solid wood packaging material using two methods: (1) semiochemical-baited traps deployed in a total of about 63–80 sites per year in British Columbia (BC), Ontario (ON), Quebec (QC), New Brunswick (NB), Nova Scotia (NS), and Newfoundland and Labrador (NL); and (2) rearing of insects from bolts collected from stressed trees and incubated in modified shipping containers in four cities (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax). We report 31 new Canadian provincial records of Coleoptera from surveys conducted in 2011–2021, including 13 new records for Canada and 9 species adventive to North America (indicated by †). Nine of the new Canadian records were native North American species previously detected only south of the border. All but three species belong to the Curculionidae family and most of these were in the subfamily Scolytinae. The records include: <i>Xenomelanophila miranda</i> (LeConte) (Canada, BC) (Buprestidae: Buprestinae); <i>Neoclytus mucronatus mucronatus</i> (Fabricius) (BC) (Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae); <i>Amphicerus cornutus</i> (Pallas) (Canada, BC) (Bostrichidae: Bostrichinae); <i>Mecinus janthinus</i> (Germar)† (ON) (Curculionidae: Curculioninae); <i>Aulacobaris lepidii</i> (Germar)† (Canada, ON); <i>Buchananius striatus</i> (LeConte) (ON) (Curculionidae: Baridinae); <i>Cylindrocopturus binotatus</i> LeConte (Canada, ON) (Curculionidae: Conoderinae); <i>Himatium errans</i> LeConte (ON); <i>Phloeophagus canadensis</i> Van Dyke (ON); <i>Rhyncolus spretus</i> Casey (Canada, BC); <i>Stenomimus pallidus</i> (Boheman) (Canada, ON); <i>Tomolips quercicola</i> (Boheman) (Canada, ON) (Curculionidae: Cossoninae); <i>Strophosoma melanogrammum</i> (Forster)† (NB) (Curculionidae: Entiminae); <i>Conotrachelus aratus</i> (Germar) (ON) (Curculionidae: Molytinae); <i>Anisandrus maiche</i> Stark† (Canada, ON, QC); <i>Cnesinus strigicollis</i> LeConte (Canada, ON); <i>Cyclorhipidion pelliculosum</i> (Eichhoff)† (Canada, ON, QC); <i>Hylesinus fasciatus</i> LeConte (QC); <i>Hylesinus pruinosus</i> Eichhoff (QC); <i>Hypothenemus interstitialis</i> (Hopkins) (Canada, ON); <i>Lymantor alaskanus</i> Wood (BC); <i>Pityogenes bidentatus</i> (Herbst)† (Canada, ON); <i>Scolytus mali</i> (Bechstein)† (BC); <i>Scolytus schevyrewi</i> Semenov† (QC); <i>Trypodendron scabricollis</i> (LeConte) (Canada, ON); <i>Trypophloeus populi</i> Hopkins (QC); <i>Xylechinus americanus</i> Blackman (NFLB); and <i>Xylosandrus crassiusculus</i> (Motschulsky)† (BC, QC) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). We also provide additional data confirming the presence of the adventive <i>Hylastes opacus</i> Erichson† in NS. Rearing of insects from bolts accounted for two new records (<i>H. pruinosus</i>, <i>R. spretus</i>) and trapping accounted for the remainder. These surveys not only assist our efforts to manage forest insects by documenting new species introductions and apparent range expansions but also increase our knowledge of biodiversity.