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Return trips from the US rose 8.8% in August, a fifth straight monthly rise. Car trips are still 27.4% below August 2024.
By Anjali Shrestha · Sep 21, 2026
Canadians made 2.6 million return trips from the United States in August, 8.8% more than a year earlier and the fifth consecutive month of growth. That is the recovery. The part that matters more is how far there is still to go: road trips were 27.4% below…
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A rise of 8.8% sounds like a comeback until you set it against the year it is being compared with. Statistics Canada reports each mode two ways, against last year and against two years ago, and the two readings tell opposite stories. The last column is our…
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More Americans are heading north, and they are increasingly flying. US residents made 2.4 million trips into Canada in August, up 2.4%. Road trips were almost flat at 1.8 million, up 1.0%, while arrivals by air rose 6.8% to 629,600. One more movement is worth…
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For American border towns, the recovery is real and still well short of 2024. A business that depended on Canadian day-trippers is seeing more of them than last summer, but by car the flow is still more than a quarter below where it was two years ago. For…
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Yes, and in growing numbers: 2.6 million return trips in August 2026, up 8.8% year on year and the fifth consecutive monthly increase. Car trips remain 27.4% below August 2024.
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From Statistics Canada's figures, August 2025 was about 34% below August 2024 for car trips and about 25% below for air, by our calculation from the published comparisons.
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Slightly. US-resident arrivals rose 2.4% to 2.4 million in August 2026, with air arrivals up 6.8% and car trips up 1.0%. Source: Statistics Canada, The Daily, "Leading indicator of international arrivals to Canada, August 2026", 11 September 2026. All figures…
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