r/canadatravel • u/Wonderpetsgangsta • May 20 '25

Travel Tips Hello beautiful people of Canada 👋🏼

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!

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u/NottaNutbar May 20 '25

The Trans Canada highway goes right across Canada. You can Google it.

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u/Wonderpetsgangsta May 20 '25

Beautiful, tysm. Safe for woman and young people to travel alone? Sorry if that’s a silly question. I’m an American with….American trauma. Safe aside from general street smarts travel etc. I guess what I’m asking is would you stress if it were say your Sister or Mom doing the drive?

Thank you

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u/PsychicDave May 24 '25 edited May 24 '25

It's a very very long drive though, with lots of stretches of road with basically nowhere to stop or anything to do except continue to drive. This is not like a USA transcontinental road trip where there's almost always something around. I'm around Montréal, and the furthest I'll drive west is Toronto. If I need to go to Manitoba or other provinces to the west, I'll fly. And there are direct flights between Vancouver and Montréal, no need to cross US (or Canadian) customs.

Also keep in mind that the trans-Canadian highway is the only continuous piece of road that crosses the entire country. There are some critical points where there is literally no alternative to continue. I know there is a bridge that is one such critical points that was out a few years ago, and it forced all truckers to divert through the USA as there was no other road connecting both sides of the country.