Help crossing Canada

In 2007 we made the trip from Saskatoon, across Canada to Newfoundland, going through Nova Scotia. You can see my trip log at the website in my signature.

Go to "2007 Trip Log - Newfoundland", then there are 2 sub headings that cover the trip, "Central Canada" and "Eastern Canada".

If you have the time I highly recommend a trip around Gaspe Peninsula.

We are currently in Saskatoon and will be leaving here on June 1st for another trip across Canada enroute to Newfoundland. However, we will be going via the Trans Labrador Highway this time, not through Nova Scotia.

Will post travel information as internet is available.

It will likely be a busy 2 months. Welcome and enjoy. Have a look at the Canada Border Service website to familiarize yourself with the don'ts!

Vic, we will be leaving Calif. on 6/15 and our next "must be somewhere" date is Aug. 20 in Pa. for the Little League World Series. In between is totally open.
Allen

rwbradley said:

Just a note on the province of Quebec, it is primarily French speaking. But if you take AutoRoute 20 (also part of the TransCanada hwy) all the way across the province to Rivere du Loup you will not have issues with the language at gas stations and restaurants along that route. By the way I would recommend if you are going thru Montreal during the day, do not take AutoRoute 20, it goes thru downtown and it can be quite busy. I would take the bypass, AutoRoute 30, I believe the tunnel under the St Lawrence river has a toll though, If you are concerned about the language and stopping in Quebec, you could target National Parks, as they are a federal government service, they are required to speak both our official languages.

Don't worry a second about the language issue in Québec. Being surrounded by nearly 350 million unilingual anglophones, a very large percentage of Québecers are bilingual.
Going across the province of Québec on highway 20 you will eventually get to Riviière-du-loup (Wolf's River),... yes,.. eventually.... more than 500km down the road.

I believe the tunnel under the St Lawrence river has a toll though,

There is no toll going through the tunnel and you do not have to use that tunnel while going through the bypass (beltway highway 30)
There is only one toll and it is located outside Montréal at the beginning of Highway 30.

If you are concerned about the language and stopping in Quebec, you could target National Parks, as they are a federal government service, they are required to speak both our official languages.

Again, there is no concerns with the language issue in Québec and targeting a National Park (Federal government service) to relieve your eventual non-concerns, you will have to find something else as there is no such thing as a Federal National Park in Québec on, or even close to your route to Halifax.
Have a very nice trip.

How much time are you devoting to this road trip?

The following link will provide a lot of informtion regarding your planned trip.

http://transcanadahighway.com/

A GPS would be a great addition to the cross Canada gear!

Very good info all, I can hardly wait.
Allen

Just a note on the province of Quebec, it is primarily French speaking. But if you take AutoRoute 20 (also part of the TransCanada hwy) all the way across the province to Rivere du Loup you will not have issues with the language at gas stations and restaurants along that route. By the way I would recommend if you are going thru Montreal during the day, do not take AutoRoute 20, it goes thru downtown and it can be quite busy. I would take the bypass, AutoRoute 30, I believe the tunnel under the St Lawrence river has a toll though. If you are concerned about the language and stopping in Quebec, you could target National Parks, as they are a federal government service, they are required to speak both our official languages.

Do a Google search for `______ tourism' and put the province, city, area, etc. in the blank space and read what the experts suggest for their location.

rwbradley wrote:
As for the province of Ontario, take the TransCanada Highway. The route around Lake Superior and Georgian Bay is very scenic. There are 2 spectacular Provincial Parks worth stopping that are on Lake Superior: Sleeping Giant Provincial Park and Lake Superior Provincial Park. After that I would head East to Algonquin Provincial Park (there are so many bears, wolves and moose you are almost guaranteed a sighting)and then continue East to the Ottawa River and follow it down thru Ottawa and on to Montreal. If you are into museums you can stop in Ottawa. The museums are a little like the Smithsonian but not quite as big.

Agreed, the route around Lake Superior is great. A couple of comments about the provincial parks though. I note that you have a 42 ft RV with a toad, getting into Lake Superior PP will be difficult. We moved up to a 39 ft. 5er and we used to be able to stop at Rabbit Blanket campground in LSPP with a shorter unit, the longer higher unit got scratched up by the trees and the campsites are generally too small to accommodate our unit. We haven't been in the Agawa bay campground for a few years but we found the trees to be a problem there too.

Neys provincial park has some great sites adjacent to the beach on Lake Superior, there is also a hidden gem of a campground in Marathon called Penn Lake park, full services on a lake and a short walk into town. LINK

Pukaskwa National Park just east of Marathon has a few sites for larger RV's and they have some great hiking trails around Superior

Yes hwy17. I would go off 17 south of Sault Ste Marie and arrange your route to take hwy60 thru the middle of Algonquin though.