85 routes · 41 ports
Ferries in Canada
Every crossing we track, by province. Pick the water you are crossing, or start from the busiest routes below.
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- British Columbia crossings
Every crossing listed in Canada lies in a single province, and all but one is worked by the same operator. BC Ferries holds 56 of the 57 routes across 36 terminals; the exception is Black Ball Ferry Line, whose ship crosses the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Washington State and makes the only international connection in the Canadian list. The traffic divides cleanly. Long vehicle runs cross the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver (Tsawwassen) and Horseshoe Bay to Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Against those sit the short island connectors, several of them under a quarter of an hour, which carry the heaviest scheduled traffic in the country.
Provinces
Start where you are
Each card leads to every crossing, port and operator in that water.
British Columbia
41 ports85 crossings · 4127 sailings a week
BC Ferries runs almost every crossing here — the big Vancouver Island routes from Tsawwassen and Horseshoe Bay, the Southern Gulf Islands, and the small island shuttles up the Strait of Georgia.
Main hubs
Most sailings
Busiest crossings
Ranked by how many departures the operators publish, not by an editor's guess.
Who sails them
Operators
The lines carrying the most of this country's timetable.