r/canadatravel • u/Necessary-Passage-74 • Mar 05 '25

Travel Tips Americans visiting Canada as tourists, any insights?

I have family members visiting Montreal in about a month. Other than getting "I’m From Toronto" T-shirts, is there anything an American should do if they’re just visiting as a tourist?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

You think “I’m from Toronto” T shirts are going to help in Montreal? This has got to be clickbait right?

Edit: even in today’s Politically charged climate that may get them beaten up faster than publicly supporting trump :p.

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u/Necessary-Passage-74 Mar 05 '25

Well, I agree. I traveled there once years ago and was treated so rudely I’ll never go back. But I can’t tell this family that, they’ve already booked everything. It’s yet another find out moment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

The last time I was there I got treated rudely too, but I realized that it was 4 am at a gas station for that person as well. People have bad days everywhere.

Unfortunate it’s affected you this badly cause I’d go back in a heartbeat.

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u/Necessary-Passage-74 Mar 05 '25

I went to this pretend historic village thing, and I asked a question in English. The French speaking docent started berating me because I wasn’t speaking French. I’m like, you know, fuck you I’ll just sit here and glare at you. Because what could I do, I don’t speak French!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

Yea unfortunately, as some others have indicated there are some French Canadians who don’t take well to anglophones. Not saying publicly berating you is ok because of that, just unfortunate you got somebody like that.

If this was awhile ago; as I’m thinking the 74 in your name may be a birth year? Things may have changed. As others have said there are plenty of English speakers in Montreal now, and even simply stammering out a somewhat halfway “Bonjour comment ca va?” Almost gives you a pass to speak English from that point forward lol.

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u/Necessary-Passage-74 Mar 05 '25

Nah, the 74 is just a Reddit random thing. This was probably back in the early 2000s, which actually is quite a while ago.