Data for Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver and the Rockies, installed before you fly. Canada is on the Americas plan, so a trip that crosses into the United States or flies on to Mexico stays on one eSIM.
The Canada plan covers Canada only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Canada.
1 other country shares the package with Canada. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Canada is the second-largest country on earth and its cities are strung along the southern edge of it. Fly between regions (Air Canada, WestJet, Porter) and drive within them: the Rockies from Calgary, the Cabot Trail from Halifax, Québec from Montréal. VIA Rail’s Toronto–Montréal corridor is the one useful train.
Sales tax is added on top of the price on the label — 5% federal GST plus a provincial tax, 13% all-in in Ontario, 15% in the Atlantic provinces, 5% only in Alberta. Restaurants expect a 15–20% tip and the card terminal will suggest more. Cards and phone wallets work everywhere; cash is rarely needed.
Banff, Jasper and the other national parks charge a daily or annual pass per vehicle, bought at the gate or online. Wildlife on the road is real — elk and deer at dusk in the mountains, moose in the east — so drive slower than the limit at dawn and dusk. Winter tyres are mandatory in Québec from December to March and sensible everywhere else with snow.
June to September is the season for the Rockies, the lakes and the east coast, and the hotels in Banff and Jasper fill months ahead. Autumn colour in Québec and Ontario peaks in early October. Skiing runs from December to April in Whistler and the Rockies. Winter in the cities is serious: −20°C in Montréal and Winnipeg is normal.
Signs, menus and service in Québec are in French, and a bonjour before the English is appreciated. Everywhere else is English. Tap water is excellent across the country, and the drinking age is 18 in Québec, Alberta and Manitoba and 19 in the rest.
Canada is on the Americas plan, so the same eSIM works in Toronto, on the Sea-to-Sky highway, in Québec City and at Lake Louise without anything to change. Coverage follows the local networks: strong in the cities and the corridor between Windsor and Québec, good on the Trans-Canada and in the mountain towns, and absent across the long stretches of the north and between the prairie towns, where no network reaches on any SIM.
The United States is on the same package. A drive from Vancouver to Seattle, Toronto to New York or Montréal to Vermont carries on with the same allowance, and the phone picks up an American partner network a few minutes after the border.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Canada.
In the towns, at the lakes and around the visitor centres, yes. On the Icefields Parkway between Lake Louise and Jasper there are long stretches with no signal on any network, and the same is true on most hiking trails. Download offline maps and your park pass before you set off, and expect the phone to reconnect at the next town.
Yes. Canada and the United States are both on the Americas plan, so the same package and the same allowance carry on across the border — Vancouver to Seattle, Niagara to Buffalo, Montréal to Vermont. The phone picks up an American partner network a few minutes after the crossing; nothing restarts and nothing splits per country.
If you arrive by air on a visa-exempt passport, yes: the Electronic Travel Authorization is applied for online on the official Government of Canada site, costs a few dollars and is usually approved within minutes. Arriving by land from the US does not need it. Apply on the official site only — the agencies charge many times the fee for the same form.
