First Time Traveling Through Canada.
We know the rules for travel in Canada the biggest one being fire arms...... Plus we have no pets We are starting in the Northwest of the USA and going along the boarder (in the US) and crossing in...
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docj wrote:JackD wrote:For the benefit of first-time travelers to Canada it is worth noting that your US debit cards won't work as debit cards at retail stores but they will work fine as VISA or MasterCard cards
More and more businesses in Canada have switched to ''chipped card readers'' only and have abandoned the old mag stripe/signature system used in the United States.
Some American tavelers may have trouble using their credit card in some commercial facilities that don't recognize cards that don't have a chip
It is true that all Canadian cards appear to be chipped, but every reader I've encountered has had a swipe slot as well as a chip reader. I've never had a problem using an unchipped US card and this is experience based on many months of traveling in Canada over the past 4+ years.
Actually my local IGA grocery store has chip only readers, they will not read a non-chip card; the scanning system is no longer active.
As Jack D indicated many places are moving to chip only technology without scan capability.
