Six women achieved the 14.30metre standard for automatic qualification, China's Limin Jiang, with her 15.04m first-round effort, looking the most relaxed on the bright and breezy morning.
Poland's Magdalena Sobieszek - a 15-metre-plus performer this season - was the best of the second qualifying group, with 14.50m.
Of those who failed to make the cut for tonight's final, Alina Vaisvilaite, from Lithuania, who arrived in Canada with a best of 15.30 - a metre beyond the distance required this morning - was perhaps the most notable casualty, managing just 13.63.
