Tickets for flights departing Canada should include departure taxes. Some airports also charge departing passengers an 'airport improvement tax', usually 10.00 or15.00.

Visitors entering the country from major continental US cities can choose to arrive by plane, train, bus or car. There are four main rail routes from the USA: New York-Montreal, New York-Toronto, Buffalo-Depew and Seattle-Vancouver. The USA's Greyhound network connects with most major destinations in Canada. There are numerous road border crossings. Note that popular crossing points (such as Niagara Falls) can have lengthy queues on weekends.

Queues will be the least of your problems if you enter by road from Alaska along the Top-of-the-World Highway into the Yukon. Several ferries run from the USA to Canada on the east coast, and from Washington State to Vancouver Island.