Canadian travel to U.S. went up in October, data shows

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Travel by Canadians to the United States increased in October, with 1.9 million trips recorded, marking a three percent rise from October 2025. This uptick follows a trend of declining Canadian travel to the U.S. since President Trump's trade policies began, but October saw road travel up 2.2% and air travel up 5.6%, reversing a previous 25.4% decline in return trips from 2024 to 2025. The article highlights that while this marks the seventh consecutive month of increasing travel, road travel is still down 29% and air travel 19% compared to 2024 levels.

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In October 2026, Canadian travel to the United States increased, with 1.9 million trips made by automobile and air, marking a three percent increase from October 2025. This trend reverses a previous decline that began under U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war against Canada, which saw a 25.4 percent drop in return trips by Canadians from the U.S. in 2025 compared to 2024. Despite the uptick, road travel remains 29 percent lower and air travel 19 percent lower than in 2024. Additionally, Canadians took 1 million overseas trips by air in October 2026, a slight 0.5 percent increase from the previous year. Thanksgiving Monday on October 12 was the busiest travel day, with 172,900 return trips from abroad.

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Canadian travel south of border had been steadily declining since U.S. President Donald Trump launched his trade war against Canada, with many vowing to buy Canadian and travel in Canada instead of going to the U.S.

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Canadian travel south of border had been steadily declining since U.S. President Donald Trump launched his trade war against Canada, with many vowing to buy Canadian and travel in Canada instead of going to the U.S. In 2025, return trips by Canadians from the U.S. were down 25.4 per cent compared to 2024.

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Canadian travel to U.S. went up in October, data shows · assertive framing

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Even before the U.S. midterm elections saw Democrats sweep both houses of Congress, travel by Canadians to the U.S. was going up in October, data from Statistics Canada shows. asserted

data → see → Canada

trips → decline → 2024

However, that trend appears to be reversing slightly. asserted

trend → appear → ?

In October, Canadians took 1.9 million trips to the United States by automobile and air, up three per cent from the same month in 2025. asserted

Canadians → take → 2025

Return trips by road were up 2.2 per cent in the same period, with air travel going up 5.6 per cent. asserted

travel → go → period

While this marked the seventh consecutive month of increasing travel to the U.S., road travel was still down 29 per cent compared to 2024 while air travel was down 19 per cent. asserted

travel → mark → 2024

Canadians also took more trips overseas, with one million overseas return trips by air in October 2026, up 0.5 per cent compared to October 2025. asserted

Canadians → take → October

Thanksgiving Monday, Oct. 12, was the busiest travel day, with 172,900 return trips from abroad by Canadian residents. October also saw more Americans travel to Canada compared to the same period in 2025, with 1.5 million trips marking an increase of 8.1 per cent compared to October 2025. asserted

trips → see → October

Friday, Oct. 9, the day before the Columbus Day long weekend in the U.S., saw the highest single day count of Americans visiting Canada at 102,100. asserted

Friday → see → 102,100

Travel by Canadians to the U.S. bottomed out in July 2025, with border crossing volumes nearly one-third below those reported in July 2024. asserted

Travel → bottom → July

Since 1972, when digital recordkeeping began for border crossings, year-over-year decline of more than 30 per cent was recorded for only other occasion. asserted

decline → begin → occasion

It was for September 2001, following the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City. asserted

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