Is return ticket required for travelling on Temporary Resident Visa to Canada?

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It's not absolutely necessary, but it's definitely good practice, and you need to be able to explain your departure plan.

All genuine visitors arrive knowing how they are expecting to leave, and most have some kind of booking to go home again. Some don't, for example if you live in the US and are just stopping in Canada to visit before driving home across the border. Some might not know exactly when they are going home, for example visiting a sick relative, but even then they usually have a plan to return home, and probably a ticket.

So in essence, if you don't have a ticket of some kind then you are going to have to explain what your departure plan is quite thoroughly, and provide some sort of documentation to back it up.

Note that a "return" ticket doesn't have to be actually back to your home. If you are going on to a third country, and have a ticket to do that, that will be fine. Likewise if you are driving to a US airport and flying home from there, showing that ticket home will be OK, as it shows your intent to leave Canada.

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