Canada Travel Guide

It's essential to plan carefully how you'll get around. With VIA Rail services becoming more skeletal each year, provincewide bus companies provide the main surface links between major cities, though in isolated areas you may be thrown back on more sporadic local services. Flying is of course more expensive, but competition in the skies can lead to some decent bargains.

On most forms of public transport there are discounted fares for children under 12, for youths between 13 and 21, and over-60s. It has to be said, however, that things are always easier if you have a car : even if a bus can take you to the general vicinity of a provincial park, for example, it can prove impossible to explore the interior without your own vehicle.