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Travel to Ontario

Flying to Ontario

International air services are available through Air Canada (AC) (www.aircanada.com; 1 888 247 2262). Many other international airlines offer direct services into Toronto. Charter airlines often offer an economical alternative to the scheduled airlines. Local air services are run by a number of operators.

Travel by rail

VIA Rail (tel: 1 888 842 7245; www.viarail.ca) connects Toronto to western Canada. Several corridor services connect Toronto, Windsor and Ottawa with Montréal and Québec City in Québec. Links to the USA are with Amtrak (tel: 1 800 872 7245, in the USA; www.amtrak.com) and VIA Rail. Services run from Toronto to New York via Niagara Falls. VIA Rail also serves most of the major cities of the province, mainly in the southern region, which is home to most of the population.

Ontario Northland (tel: (705) 472 4500 or 1 800 363 7512 ext. 0; www.ontarionorthland.ca) runs rail services from Toronto to Timmins, Cochrane, Kapuskasing, Hearst and Moosonee, with stops along the way.

Getting to Ontario by boat

The only port on James Bay with rail links to the south is Moosonee, which is also the base for a limited local air service.

Ferry operators:

The principal ports receiving sailings from the USA are Thunder Bay (to Duluth); Sault Ste Marie (to Sault Ste Marie, Michigan); Windsor (to Detroit/Lake St Clair); Sarnia (to Port Huron/St Clair River); Leamington (to Sandusky/Lake Erie); Kingston, Brockville and Cornwall (to the USA across the St Lawrence Seaway); and Wolfe Island to New York State.

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