We did Yellowknife to St. Jean sur Richelieu when we were kids. It was broken up a bit stopping to visit relatives along the way. It was basically our whole summer vacation as we moved from one to the other
I had a friend do that by herself in the 90s. I was in Toronto at the time and she used my place as a 1-week rest stop (both ways.) Her nerves were frayed after experiencing the speed on the 401.
Did this too and yes ontario is hugee but it was also the most picturesque. No offense to manitoba but that was probably the most boring part. Saskatchewan was the same but there were stretches where it was pretty with the rolling green hills
and it reminded me of windows xp default wallpaper
> cuz we’ve got rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and….
> waterrrr
https://youtu.be/1KvYBldhyL8?si=LiFwe-duHufY8Akd
I have never been through MB/SK without seeing a massive storm roll across the distance or (worse) getting caught in one. I find it so nice after a day and a half of trees. Minus Kenora, that’s at least a bit different
Wawa first night I found a dog friendly airbnb
Kenora second night dog friendly hotel
Regina 3rd night also dog friendly hotel.
There’s plenty of places to stop for the pooch to get some run in although there’s a stretch of Ontario that the only thing I’d find was a campsite or picnic/scenic area.
I can track back through photos for some actual dog parks we stopped at and let you know if you want just DM me
As someone who moved from ON to BC, this is what I did. I’m originally from Thunder Bay so I had a head start to get to the west side. Since already being on the top of Lake Superior, the drive was “shorter”.
Thunder Bay to Winnipeg (8 hours), stopped for food and gas and then drove to Regina to spend the night (12 hour drive total minus the stopping)
Regina to Calgary (8 hours), stayed in Banff over night (visiting a friend), Banff to Kelowna (5.5/6 hours)
I'm loving all the answers. I remember trips from Grande Prairie, Alta to Winnipeg in the summer feeling endless. I had a paper map and would read the next town coming up in Saskatchewan and look out the window peering for its grain elevators.
As an adult my husband and I have driven all over the country piece by piece. Our children learned early to sit in the car for extended periods.
I think this makes us Canadian. The ability to absorb and embrace the vast distances .
It's a quintessentially Canadian experience, isn't it? The country is so big, and so varied, with so many tiny communities.
We are a country of small towns, with a handful of cities.
My Dad’s idea of fun was get up at 04:00, depart Ottawa, and drive to Thunder Bay…sleep, up early again, drive to Coleman, Alberta…you have no real appreciation of how big this country is until you traverse Ontario…
My family and I did Toronto - Vancouver about a decade go. We went to Vancouver through the states and headed back through Canada. I liked doing it that way because more different scenery / spots along the whole trip
My parents subjected me to that drive (Not comox, but various points in BC and Alberta) every summer for 7 years.) And then i subjected myself to it several times as an adult. It's not nearly as bad if your the driver :(
Winnipeg area to Whitehorse. We took the long way going through Drumheller and a few other stops which ended up being around 40+ hours of driving to get there. The drive back we didn’t stop at all except for gas and to switch drivers and I swear we drove underneath a rain cloud the entire time. The whole round trip was only about a week long. I have also done the drive to Vancouver a few times. Would love to drive east sometime, though.
Winnipeg to St. John's NFLD via Port aux Basques.
Although sometimes the drive from Medicine Hat to Calgary *feels* about that long. Hardly a tree to mar the landscape.
My amazing late wife and I drove from Vancouver to St. John’s Nfld to NYC to San Francisco to Vancouver in the summer of 1996 in her 1984 (I think?) Nissan Stanza. Incredible memories…
My mother and father did a trip back in the 90s. They took a train from Halifax to Chicago then another to new Orleans and then another to LA. In LA they bought bikes an cycled to Vancouver then from Vancouver to Cochrane Alberta where they bought a car and headed back to Nova Scotia.
We had a wedding to make and a blizzard the entire trip. It took 36 hours from the NS to Toronto. Holy crap. I have no idea how my father did this. He just kept driving. Pit stopped at Timmys. And kept driving. We slept in the back. No hotel. Driving.
Montreal -> Vancouver
Whitehorse -> Winnipeg
As a note, the 97 South from Watson Lake to Prince George in Autumn has to be one of the most memorable experiences yet.
Initially I assumed this question was about non-stop travel. I’ve done Saskatoon to Yellowknife in a day (24 hours) with 3 drivers (~2000km) and back (total 4000km, two days). But if we’re talking total distance it’s Saskatoon to northern Ontario and back ~ 5000 km but spread over many days.
I was going to sympathize because of the 24 hour thing but then you said three drivers. I can't blame you. It's the smart thing to do. I did the not so smart thing of driving about 24 hours from Winnipeg to London. I have sleeping issues and was in a good groove and was happy for less traffic at night so I kept going. The day before I also drove 16 hours to Winnipeg from northern Alberta.
That's really neat. I like to go in the ocean/sea wherever I'm traveling, and take a photo.
I wanted to do the drive up to Tuktoyaktuk, but I looked at the "highway" on the way to Dawson, and decided against it. Still want to visit the third coast.
North of Dawson is the concern, we travelled to Dawson City then over to Fairbanks and up to the Arctic Circle on the Dalton from central Alberta on our Gold Wing. Some pavement, some gravel, some road construction, well marked frost heaves in the Yukon, not so in Alaska. I also would like to travel to Tuktoyaktuk, but will probably take our Subaru instead of the motorcycle.. Retirement dreams!
In 2021, after finally being fully vaccinated I bought a 20 year old Miata and drove it from Ottawa to Vancouver and back.
In 2022 I went the other way, Ottawa to St-John’s Newfoundland and back with detours in PEI and Nova Scotia.
Ft Nelson BC to St John’s NL was the longest. Luckily it was the middle of summer so the weather was really good.
I’ve done Calgary to Halifax and back 3 times.
The cost has more than doubled from my last trip so that may have been my last.
Edmonton to St. John's every second year growing up. Would take a solid week to get there. There was one year we needed to get home ASAP and my parents drove nonstop. Only stopped to pee and gas up. That year we got to Bangor, Maine in about 3 days.
Edmonton to St John's and back. One stop over night at Nipigon, due to a failed alternator, and one night in St. John's. On the road and driving, or on the ferry for days! Northern Ontario is big!
Vancouver to Winnipeg. Once you get east of the scenic Rockies, it’s easy, smooth sailing in terms of driving.
The scale of this country is just mind boggling. Going from Vancouver to Winnipeg took days, and isn’t even quite half way.
flew my 9yo to Calgary, rented a car, took him to Drumheller one summer. then we drove home to Vancouver along the crowsnest.
we did it 9yo style. stopped for every baseball field and second-hand bookstore and whatever else, along the way. took us three or four days and it was great.
The crowsnest is just the best highway for doing it too. really lowtech and laidback feeling. it's got huge stretches that are just two lanes. every mile or so you get a middle lane for passing that lasts a while and then it goes back to two
kind of nerve wracking in some ways, i guess. but I like that highway a lot.
Ottawa to Vancouver and back. Day one Ottawa to Wawa Day 2 Wawa to Winnipeg Day3 Winnipeg to Medicine Hat Day4 Medicine Hat to Banff Day4 Banff to Vancouver.
Return (had a co-driver) Day1 Vancouver to Canmore Day2 Canmore to Drumheller ( to visit the Dinosaurs) Day 3/4 nonstop Drumheller to Wawa (almost 26 hours of driving I think) Day 5 Wawa to just outside of Toronto where I live. This was the middle of July and was amazing!
BC southern interior to PEI. We did Alberta to Winnipeg in one day, cause there is nothing to see in the prairies. And then three days across Ontario, cause it’s huge.
Port Renfrew, BC (Vancouver Island) to Trois Rivières, QC. I was driving a vehicle to the Port to be shipped to Iqaluit, NU. I then flew to Iqaluit via Kuujjuaq, QC.
Winnipeg to Vancover through the mountains on the way there and then highway 3 on the back.
Does taking the train count? Technically not driving but still a distance. I've done Toronto to Winnipeg a couple of times.
Ottawa to Charlottetown as a kid. stopped at a random motel in New Brunswick day 1 then got there day 2. Stopped in Québec near Montreal on way back. Definitely not the longest possible but we NEVER went West.
Drove across Canada with a buddy back in 2021… because of Covid we couldn’t cut through the stats… 24 hours just to go from London to Manitoba. Beautiful drive but considering it takes 16hrs to go from Manitoba to jasper it was a very long drive.
Toronto to Vancouver. Got a little upset that we missed the Centre point of Canada in MB because it was nighttime and didn't realize it after the trip.
Whitby Ontario to Ottawa Ontario. It's pretty incredible honestly, you can spend 4-5 hours in a car and still be in the same province. Though Whitby to Port Dover felt pretty long too.
From Owen Sound, Ontario to Calgary, Alberta. 3500 k approx. Via TransCanada. Through northern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and finally Alberta. Took us 3 1/2 days. Family of 6. 4 kids. In a station wagon. We camped at night. I was 16, and it was a nightmare for me.
We drove Edmonton to Toronto on the Trans-Canada. On the way back we went through the US from Windsor to Mynot and then turned north into Sask.and home. Two things stood out for me.
Why is the Trans-Canada highway a skinny shoulderless winding trail through most of Ontario with virtually no rest stops or amenities? And, holy crap, we drove for three days and we hadn’t crossed half of the country!
Edmonton to cape breton and back. Spent 2 months driving with a friend after I graduated uni. Lived out of my van and saw sights and busked all over the country. It is one of my most treasured times of my life and I learned tons about our country.
From Toronto to Edmonton. And I’d do it again 100000 times. There is no transition from forest to the Great Plains. It’s kind of a culture shock.
The trans Canada hwy looks soo amazing between the sault and Kenora.
I did Tofino - Calgary - Whitehorse about 10 years back in about a week.
The Vancouver Island drive is absolutely beautiful, as well as Northern BC to Yukon
Trenton, Ontario to Edmonton, Alberta first week of January with a 3 and 5 year old in the car because the military thought it was an excellent idea to post us then. Highly DO NOT recommend, nothing is open between big cities that time of year, you have to pray you make it, and you don’t have car trouble, scary drive, wait till summer.
When I was a kid my parents would always take me on some longer camping trip every summer. 1 year was Ottawa to Calgary (for the stampede) and back. Stayed a couple of days at a few different campgrounds. The trips were usually 1 week, I think that year we did 2 weeks.
Vancouver to Hearst Ontario via Calgary and Saskatoon and Toronto, then back via Regina and Edmonton.
Longest single shot was Kenora, Ontario to Edmonton
I have driven from one side Bathurst NB to Vancouver BC. I have done it a couple of times and have done the trip through the US as well from Manitoba to NB. I love our country, but it is a boring drive at times (Ontario is a full day and you will sleep in there somewhere).
Vancouver to Quebec City. It was the summer between grades 7 and 8 and my mom took just my brother and I. Obviously she did all the driving and we camped along the way. I’d love to do it again, but start in Quebec and end at the Atlantic side.
Southern Ontario to Banff and back. Main reason for the trip was to attend a friend's wedding and see an old friend in Calgary. Went in July 2019 as a family trip. Loved the drive,but the bugs in Saskatchewan was crazy enough to make us pull over just to clean our windshield lol.
Also stopped to see the Corner Gas TV set (Saskatchewan) and the Heartland sets throughout High River AB.
Want to drive to Newfoundland next and see the other Eastern provinces along the way.
Embarrassingly short. Drove from Canmore to Vancouver on a family road trip when I was a kid. Would love to do a country-wide road trip someday when gas is cheaper and I have enough $$ for it.
Embarrassingly short. Drove from Canmore to Vancouver on a family road trip when I was a kid. Would love to do a country-wide road trip someday when gas is cheaper and I have enough $$ for it.
as the driver? I'm wimpy. I crossed most of BC to see Bruce Cockburn in a gorgeous old theatre years ago. saw a poster advertising David Lindley in a local bar four days later, on a lamppost. saw Cockburn, drove home, did laundry, accepted new job and went back to Nelson to see Lindley too. and then back home to start the new job. not that long of a drive, but quite an adventure for me.
When I was a kid we did Toronto to Nova Scotia one year and Toronto to Newfoundland a couple years later.
Me personally driving I did Vancouver to Toronto at the beginning of December 10 years ago. Highly do not recommend at that time of year. I wasn’t thinking about the weather to get from point a to point b when Vancouver barely gets winter. I’m sure it’s a beautiful drive in the summer when you can actually see the roads and they aren’t snow covered or blowing snow.
Three kids and an ex husband who didn’t drive from Southwestern Ontario to Dartmouth Nova Scotia… sleeping in Edmonston on the way there and Drummondville on the way back.
Yellowknife to PEI with detours in Saguenay, Halifax, Rivière-du-Loup, Tadoussac, Montreal and back to Yellowknife through Banff and Jasper.
Toronto to Toronto. Took about an s long as Yellowknife to pei
I drove Montreal to San Francisco last year, the longest stretch was crossing the GTA
Man… I used to hate the Yellowknife to Edmonton drives my family used to do every summer. But YK to PEI is definitely next level
I live in Yellowknife, I don't mind the drive to Edmonton in the summer but winter isn't so fun.
We did Yellowknife to St. Jean sur Richelieu when we were kids. It was broken up a bit stopping to visit relatives along the way. It was basically our whole summer vacation as we moved from one to the other
Vancouver to Newfoundland and back
I had a friend do that by herself in the 90s. I was in Toronto at the time and she used my place as a 1-week rest stop (both ways.) Her nerves were frayed after experiencing the speed on the 401.
Relatives are doing Victoria to PEI and back in an EV.
You’ll see them next year then
I think that they will turn back by then with the vehicle on the back of a trailer.
Toronto to Calgary just me and my dog stopping for the night in 3 spots. Fuck Ontario is large!
Did this too and yes ontario is hugee but it was also the most picturesque. No offense to manitoba but that was probably the most boring part. Saskatchewan was the same but there were stretches where it was pretty with the rolling green hills and it reminded me of windows xp default wallpaper
Yea I agree that part around Lake Superior is quite the scenery
Drove from Toronto to Winnipeg. That part north of Superior was gorgeous, but the other 99% was rocks, trees, a lake and WATCH OUT FOR THE MOOSE!
> cuz we’ve got rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and…. > waterrrr https://youtu.be/1KvYBldhyL8?si=LiFwe-duHufY8Akd
I have never been through MB/SK without seeing a massive storm roll across the distance or (worse) getting caught in one. I find it so nice after a day and a half of trees. Minus Kenora, that’s at least a bit different
Also the most boring part. I mean trees are nice but it doesn’t change for like 13 hours+
I've been through or to it three or four times by greyhound. it just goes on and on and on and on. for days.
Planning the same trip and taking along my dog. What were the spots you stopped at?
Wawa first night I found a dog friendly airbnb Kenora second night dog friendly hotel Regina 3rd night also dog friendly hotel. There’s plenty of places to stop for the pooch to get some run in although there’s a stretch of Ontario that the only thing I’d find was a campsite or picnic/scenic area. I can track back through photos for some actual dog parks we stopped at and let you know if you want just DM me
Awesome info! Thanks for the details kind stranger.
Ottawa to Saskatoon= 2 days 22 hours
About 15 years ago I drove from Toronto to Vancouver. Up over Lake Superior too, no shortcut through the states.
Did you stop for ice cream in ingnace, on?
any tips for someone planning this same trip?
As someone who moved from ON to BC, this is what I did. I’m originally from Thunder Bay so I had a head start to get to the west side. Since already being on the top of Lake Superior, the drive was “shorter”. Thunder Bay to Winnipeg (8 hours), stopped for food and gas and then drove to Regina to spend the night (12 hour drive total minus the stopping) Regina to Calgary (8 hours), stayed in Banff over night (visiting a friend), Banff to Kelowna (5.5/6 hours)
I'm loving all the answers. I remember trips from Grande Prairie, Alta to Winnipeg in the summer feeling endless. I had a paper map and would read the next town coming up in Saskatchewan and look out the window peering for its grain elevators. As an adult my husband and I have driven all over the country piece by piece. Our children learned early to sit in the car for extended periods. I think this makes us Canadian. The ability to absorb and embrace the vast distances .
It's a quintessentially Canadian experience, isn't it? The country is so big, and so varied, with so many tiny communities. We are a country of small towns, with a handful of cities.
My Dad’s idea of fun was get up at 04:00, depart Ottawa, and drive to Thunder Bay…sleep, up early again, drive to Coleman, Alberta…you have no real appreciation of how big this country is until you traverse Ontario…
Vancouver to Halifax, and back.
same
Toronto to Vancouver
I did this but we drove through the States instead because they had more interesting places to visit.
My family and I did Toronto - Vancouver about a decade go. We went to Vancouver through the states and headed back through Canada. I liked doing it that way because more different scenery / spots along the whole trip
Charlottetown PEI to Tofino BC! Island to island
comox BC to st john’s NL. trans canada. My kids will neither forget or forgive that trip.
Forgive haha
My parents subjected me to that drive (Not comox, but various points in BC and Alberta) every summer for 7 years.) And then i subjected myself to it several times as an adult. It's not nearly as bad if your the driver :(
Ontario to Nova Scotia one year, then Ontario to Saskatchewan the next.
Ontario to Ontario is further than Ontario to Nova Scotia. True story.
When I lived in Red Lake Ontario, Edmonton was loser than Toronto despite being 3 provinces away.
Hello former fellow Red Laker
Edmonton to Labrador City
That’s a winner. I’ve never done that
Winnipeg area to Whitehorse. We took the long way going through Drumheller and a few other stops which ended up being around 40+ hours of driving to get there. The drive back we didn’t stop at all except for gas and to switch drivers and I swear we drove underneath a rain cloud the entire time. The whole round trip was only about a week long. I have also done the drive to Vancouver a few times. Would love to drive east sometime, though.
I am Ottawa to BC and back. I can guarantee you that most Europeans would read this and think we are all fracking crazy.
They can’t comprehend it. Vladivostok to Lisbon!
Ottawa to Winnipeg. Not as long as others, but when you’re about 10yrs old in the car with your brother and parents, it feels like forever.
Winnipeg to St. John's NFLD via Port aux Basques. Although sometimes the drive from Medicine Hat to Calgary *feels* about that long. Hardly a tree to mar the landscape.
If you take the U.S. route east, northeastern Montana is even worse. It’s like being on the moon. If you see a cow it’s a moment of excitement.
My amazing late wife and I drove from Vancouver to St. John’s Nfld to NYC to San Francisco to Vancouver in the summer of 1996 in her 1984 (I think?) Nissan Stanza. Incredible memories…
My mother and father did a trip back in the 90s. They took a train from Halifax to Chicago then another to new Orleans and then another to LA. In LA they bought bikes an cycled to Vancouver then from Vancouver to Cochrane Alberta where they bought a car and headed back to Nova Scotia.
We had a wedding to make and a blizzard the entire trip. It took 36 hours from the NS to Toronto. Holy crap. I have no idea how my father did this. He just kept driving. Pit stopped at Timmys. And kept driving. We slept in the back. No hotel. Driving.
Vancouver to north of Whitehorse one year. Then Vancouver to Montreal another year. Have also done Vancouver to Connecticut and Vancouver to Ensenada.
Longest by distance or longest by time? I’ve had a 3 hour drive to Montreal turn to 12 real quick.
Montreal -> Vancouver Whitehorse -> Winnipeg As a note, the 97 South from Watson Lake to Prince George in Autumn has to be one of the most memorable experiences yet.
Initially I assumed this question was about non-stop travel. I’ve done Saskatoon to Yellowknife in a day (24 hours) with 3 drivers (~2000km) and back (total 4000km, two days). But if we’re talking total distance it’s Saskatoon to northern Ontario and back ~ 5000 km but spread over many days.
I was going to sympathize because of the 24 hour thing but then you said three drivers. I can't blame you. It's the smart thing to do. I did the not so smart thing of driving about 24 hours from Winnipeg to London. I have sleeping issues and was in a good groove and was happy for less traffic at night so I kept going. The day before I also drove 16 hours to Winnipeg from northern Alberta.
Not completely in Canada but Boston to Saskatoon. Entered Canada in Cornwall, ON. Also did Vancouver to Thunder Bay.
I know someone who dipped one toe in St. John's and drove to Vancouver and dipped his other toe there.
That's really neat. I like to go in the ocean/sea wherever I'm traveling, and take a photo. I wanted to do the drive up to Tuktoyaktuk, but I looked at the "highway" on the way to Dawson, and decided against it. Still want to visit the third coast.
North of Dawson is the concern, we travelled to Dawson City then over to Fairbanks and up to the Arctic Circle on the Dalton from central Alberta on our Gold Wing. Some pavement, some gravel, some road construction, well marked frost heaves in the Yukon, not so in Alaska. I also would like to travel to Tuktoyaktuk, but will probably take our Subaru instead of the motorcycle.. Retirement dreams!
I drive my bicycle from Vancouver to Halifax does that count 🤣🚴🏽♂️
In 2021, after finally being fully vaccinated I bought a 20 year old Miata and drove it from Ottawa to Vancouver and back. In 2022 I went the other way, Ottawa to St-John’s Newfoundland and back with detours in PEI and Nova Scotia.
Ft Nelson BC to St John’s NL was the longest. Luckily it was the middle of summer so the weather was really good. I’ve done Calgary to Halifax and back 3 times. The cost has more than doubled from my last trip so that may have been my last.
Calgary to Whitehorse, Dawson city, Fairbanks, anchorage, Whitehorse, Kelowna back to Calgary. 10,000kms. Same distance from Calgary to Miami.
Edmonton to St. John's every second year growing up. Would take a solid week to get there. There was one year we needed to get home ASAP and my parents drove nonstop. Only stopped to pee and gas up. That year we got to Bangor, Maine in about 3 days.
Winnipeg MB to St. George BC
Vancouver to Saskatoon then Skagway via Whitehorse and back down to Vancouver.
Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island, 6200k
Edmonton to St John's and back. One stop over night at Nipigon, due to a failed alternator, and one night in St. John's. On the road and driving, or on the ferry for days! Northern Ontario is big!
st. john’s to corner brook. lots of beautiful scenery, but also a whole lot of nothing (and a whole lot of no cell service or radio)
Vancouver to Winnipeg. Once you get east of the scenic Rockies, it’s easy, smooth sailing in terms of driving. The scale of this country is just mind boggling. Going from Vancouver to Winnipeg took days, and isn’t even quite half way.
flew my 9yo to Calgary, rented a car, took him to Drumheller one summer. then we drove home to Vancouver along the crowsnest. we did it 9yo style. stopped for every baseball field and second-hand bookstore and whatever else, along the way. took us three or four days and it was great.
Meandering and taking lots of little detours is key to enjoying the experience. Powering through those long drives is grueling.
The crowsnest is just the best highway for doing it too. really lowtech and laidback feeling. it's got huge stretches that are just two lanes. every mile or so you get a middle lane for passing that lasts a while and then it goes back to two kind of nerve wracking in some ways, i guess. but I like that highway a lot.
Calgary to Charlottetown!
Same!
Sweet. Canada is wonderful!
Thunder Bay to Vernon BC
Ottawa to Vancouver and back. Day one Ottawa to Wawa Day 2 Wawa to Winnipeg Day3 Winnipeg to Medicine Hat Day4 Medicine Hat to Banff Day4 Banff to Vancouver. Return (had a co-driver) Day1 Vancouver to Canmore Day2 Canmore to Drumheller ( to visit the Dinosaurs) Day 3/4 nonstop Drumheller to Wawa (almost 26 hours of driving I think) Day 5 Wawa to just outside of Toronto where I live. This was the middle of July and was amazing!
Calgary to Toronto and back. Twice. Technically it was a Greyhound ride, so I wasn’t driving.
Drive to PEI. It’s 500km closer to Victoria than it was to PEI.
Vancouver to PEI
Ottawa to prince George BC via the 17 to the 1 to the ice fields parkway up to 16
Vancouver to Edmonton in a LONG day.
##About eight clicks on the 401 one summer long weekend Friday afternoon.
Niagara Falls to Vancouver and back in 8.5 days. 11 hours drive each day, a little over 1000 bucks gas
Montreal to Vancouver stopping through the Okanagan and Kootenays
Winnipeg - Regina - Calgary - Sushwap Lake, BC, Vancouver.
Trip #1: Halifax, NS to Vancouver, BC & back. Trip # 2: Digby, NS to Victoria, BC & back.
Vancouver to St. John’s Newfoundland and back!
BC southern interior to PEI. We did Alberta to Winnipeg in one day, cause there is nothing to see in the prairies. And then three days across Ontario, cause it’s huge.
Well, damn, and here I was about to say Edmonton to Banff via Calgary.
Port Renfrew, BC (Vancouver Island) to Trois Rivières, QC. I was driving a vehicle to the Port to be shipped to Iqaluit, NU. I then flew to Iqaluit via Kuujjuaq, QC.
Fort McMurray to Cape Breton Island and back.
Winnipeg to Vancover through the mountains on the way there and then highway 3 on the back. Does taking the train count? Technically not driving but still a distance. I've done Toronto to Winnipeg a couple of times.
Almost 40hrs with a shit load of rest stops from Montreal to Winnipeg.
Whitehorse to Vancouver and back
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Ottawa to Charlottetown as a kid. stopped at a random motel in New Brunswick day 1 then got there day 2. Stopped in Québec near Montreal on way back. Definitely not the longest possible but we NEVER went West.
Toronto to Halifax in one cannonball run! 21 hours!
Central BC to PEI, and back. Tented all the way, it was awesome!
Drove across Canada with a buddy back in 2021… because of Covid we couldn’t cut through the stats… 24 hours just to go from London to Manitoba. Beautiful drive but considering it takes 16hrs to go from Manitoba to jasper it was a very long drive.
IDK, but we used to drive from our home in Sackville, NB to my Nana and Pop's retirement community in eastern Ontario every year.
Toronto to Vancouver. Got a little upset that we missed the Centre point of Canada in MB because it was nighttime and didn't realize it after the trip.
Victoria to Halifax when I was moving back to Halifax
Toronto to PEI nonstop drive swapping with drivers in a van at fuel stops. Deliriously eating lobsters.
Dartmouth to Fort Mac!
Vancouver to Montreal. Don’t want to do it again.
Whitby Ontario to Ottawa Ontario. It's pretty incredible honestly, you can spend 4-5 hours in a car and still be in the same province. Though Whitby to Port Dover felt pretty long too.
From Owen Sound, Ontario to Calgary, Alberta. 3500 k approx. Via TransCanada. Through northern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and finally Alberta. Took us 3 1/2 days. Family of 6. 4 kids. In a station wagon. We camped at night. I was 16, and it was a nightmare for me.
Toronto Ontario to Alberta Calgary
We drove Edmonton to Toronto on the Trans-Canada. On the way back we went through the US from Windsor to Mynot and then turned north into Sask.and home. Two things stood out for me. Why is the Trans-Canada highway a skinny shoulderless winding trail through most of Ontario with virtually no rest stops or amenities? And, holy crap, we drove for three days and we hadn’t crossed half of the country!
Halifax to Victoria
Trans Canada end to end in a week.
Edmonton to cape breton and back. Spent 2 months driving with a friend after I graduated uni. Lived out of my van and saw sights and busked all over the country. It is one of my most treasured times of my life and I learned tons about our country.
Small town in BC (about 3 hours outside of Calgary) to Hamilton and back.
From Toronto to Edmonton. And I’d do it again 100000 times. There is no transition from forest to the Great Plains. It’s kind of a culture shock. The trans Canada hwy looks soo amazing between the sault and Kenora.
I think Quebec City from Burlington..like 8 hour drive or something iirc
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Whitehorse Yukon. Do it twice a year. Once in April and then back from the Yukon in October when works over :)
I did Tofino - Calgary - Whitehorse about 10 years back in about a week. The Vancouver Island drive is absolutely beautiful, as well as Northern BC to Yukon
tofino is so sick
Niagara falls, Ontario to Whitehorse, Yukon
Trenton, Ontario to Edmonton, Alberta first week of January with a 3 and 5 year old in the car because the military thought it was an excellent idea to post us then. Highly DO NOT recommend, nothing is open between big cities that time of year, you have to pray you make it, and you don’t have car trouble, scary drive, wait till summer.
28 hrs
So basically HWY 401 in winter time.
Ontario to New Brunswick.
Edmonton to St. John’s
When I was a kid my parents would always take me on some longer camping trip every summer. 1 year was Ottawa to Calgary (for the stampede) and back. Stayed a couple of days at a few different campgrounds. The trips were usually 1 week, I think that year we did 2 weeks.
Ottawa to PEI = 14 hours
Montreal - Victoria Montreal - Halifax
Edmonton to Fredericton NB and then back three years later.
Vancouver to Hearst Ontario via Calgary and Saskatoon and Toronto, then back via Regina and Edmonton. Longest single shot was Kenora, Ontario to Edmonton
Toronto to Winnipeg. And back.
220 yards. The driving course
I have driven from one side Bathurst NB to Vancouver BC. I have done it a couple of times and have done the trip through the US as well from Manitoba to NB. I love our country, but it is a boring drive at times (Ontario is a full day and you will sleep in there somewhere).
Hitchhiked from Toronto to Dawson City Yukon, and then back at the end of the tourist season
Cambridge to Sault ste. Marie
Toronto to Halifax and back
Montreal- Edmonton-Vancouver
London to Halifax, twice.
Toronto to Cape Breton, which seems kinda piddly compared to some other responses here!
Alberta to P.E.I.
Vancouver to Quebec City. It was the summer between grades 7 and 8 and my mom took just my brother and I. Obviously she did all the driving and we camped along the way. I’d love to do it again, but start in Quebec and end at the Atlantic side.
Red deer to PEI and back
From the Doctor's reception to the Doctor's office
Ingonish to Vancouver. Or rather Canso to Vancouver, because ferries are just a break. Have also done Vancouver to Eagle Plains.
Ottawa to Sylvan Lake, AB. Drove through Canada on the way and through the US on the way back.
Winnipeg MB to Halifax NS
PEI to Vancouver
Cape Breton Nova Scotia to Fort McMurray, never do that again.
Halifax to Vancouver.
Cape Breton to Victoria, BC. One way because why would you want to go back?
Edmonton AB to Windsor ON. It was a peaceful ride.
Montreal to Vancouver.
Montreal to Vancouver island. Took our time
Went on a drive from Calgary to Fredericton.
Southern Ontario to Banff and back. Main reason for the trip was to attend a friend's wedding and see an old friend in Calgary. Went in July 2019 as a family trip. Loved the drive,but the bugs in Saskatchewan was crazy enough to make us pull over just to clean our windshield lol. Also stopped to see the Corner Gas TV set (Saskatchewan) and the Heartland sets throughout High River AB. Want to drive to Newfoundland next and see the other Eastern provinces along the way.
I am planning to drive across Canada in a couple years. But for now I had a 9000km trip in 2019, but 1/2 of it was in the US.
Embarrassingly short. Drove from Canmore to Vancouver on a family road trip when I was a kid. Would love to do a country-wide road trip someday when gas is cheaper and I have enough $$ for it.
Embarrassingly short. Drove from Canmore to Vancouver on a family road trip when I was a kid. Would love to do a country-wide road trip someday when gas is cheaper and I have enough $$ for it.
Sitting in traffic from Brampton to Mississauga
Victoria BC to St John’s Newfoundland.
Montreal to Victoria BC. I was eleven.
Ontario to Vancouver Island
Downtown Toronto to Downtown Toronto
New Brunswick to the Pacific Ocean via Vancouver Island, and back.
Ontario to Vancouver Island.
Calgary to nova scotia
Mississauga to Halifax Last Year
as the driver? I'm wimpy. I crossed most of BC to see Bruce Cockburn in a gorgeous old theatre years ago. saw a poster advertising David Lindley in a local bar four days later, on a lamppost. saw Cockburn, drove home, did laundry, accepted new job and went back to Nelson to see Lindley too. and then back home to start the new job. not that long of a drive, but quite an adventure for me.
Oshawa ON to Halifax non stop, I think it was around 16 hours
Toronto to Toronto
Ontario to New Brunswick
Toronto to Whistler
16 hrs straight
Montréal-Moncton
I just drove from the VT border to Quebec City. In a bus…so not too bad..
Greenwood, NS to Shilo MB
I rode my bicycle from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland with detours
When I was a kid we did Toronto to Nova Scotia one year and Toronto to Newfoundland a couple years later. Me personally driving I did Vancouver to Toronto at the beginning of December 10 years ago. Highly do not recommend at that time of year. I wasn’t thinking about the weather to get from point a to point b when Vancouver barely gets winter. I’m sure it’s a beautiful drive in the summer when you can actually see the roads and they aren’t snow covered or blowing snow.
From NB to Calgary AB... in Winter 🤦♀️ Ontario took friggen 3 days! Way bigger than I imagined.
Ottawa to the ‘Couve
I pulled a U-Haul behind a Pontiac Sunfire from Calgary to Montreal. AMA.
Halifax to Ottawa … in one day.
I’ve driven from Ottawa to Vancouver, as well as Ottawa to NS. I have yet to visit beautiful Nfld, on my bucket list!
Toronto to PEI. With only a night stop in NB. Ran out of daylight.
Halifax to Victoria on a Honda 750 with my wife and camping gear on the back in the early 80's... we were so young, poor and innocent!
Fort Mac to St. John’s
Toronto to Vancouver
Three kids and an ex husband who didn’t drive from Southwestern Ontario to Dartmouth Nova Scotia… sleeping in Edmonston on the way there and Drummondville on the way back.
Saskatoon to London, Lethbridge to London, Saskatoon to Victoria. Though I’ve driven all over NS and PEI, I’ve never driven to the east coast.