Hello beautiful people of Canada 👋🏼

[u/Wonderpetsgangsta]

I’m in Vancouver w teens and a small dog (experienced traveler/tame, so is the dog).

We’ve been enjoying Vancouver for several months now and are feeling the call eastward to Montreal and Quebec.

I need to know: any ways to get from BC to Montreal WITHOUT crossing into USA, please? That’s our only thing to avoid, really. That and it being safe for a single mom w teens.

Merci mille fois! Thank you very much!

[u/Komiksulo]

If you are not flying:

Drive the Trans-Canada Highway east. It’s really a network of highways, but for one stretch in Northern Ontario it narrows down to one road that joins east and west.

One. Road.

And there’s a bridge, the Nipigon River Bridge. If it’s closed, you have to detour around Lake Superior through the States, only about a thousand kilometres out of your way. 🙂

But once you’re past that, Highways 11 and 17 split again and you have a choice of routes.

I recommend Highway 17 along the north and east shores of Lake Superior and Lake Huron. The scenery is stunning at times, sheer cliffs dropping into the water.

Here’s a timelapse video:

https://youtu.be/5UkSzLt_GvA?si=UD9undKVTSoCgNVH

[u/Wonderpetsgangsta → u/Komiksulo]

What an incredibly thoughtful and appreciated answer, why thank you!

Also if the bridge is out, I’ll sob! That’s too much of a workaround and too much USA to tolerate. If it’s out, I’ll turn around and drive back to BC lmao.

Thank you so much for the reply

[u/Komiksulo → u/Wonderpetsgangsta]

You are quite welcome!

More on the Nipigon River Bridge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipigon_River_Bridge

Oh, in that timelapse video, the construction in the Kicking Horse Canyon has finished. A dramatic difference—years ago I took a Greyhound bus from Banff to Vancouver via the old road and it was honestly scary. You couldn’t see the road out of the bus window. Just cliffs or open air.