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190 Best Canada Quotes and Captions for Instagram

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Canada is more than just the great outdoors, it’s also home to some very inspirational quotes and captions that are perfect for posting on your Instagram account.

Canada has many famous quotes about its land, people, or culture. We have compiled all of the most popular quotes into one blog post so you can find what you need when you’re looking for Canada-related content to post on your social media pages.

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Canada Quotes for Instagram

  • “A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.” – Pierre Berton
  • “Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it.” – Sir Wilfrid Laurier
  • “If you’re going to Canada, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” – John Phillips Sousa

Famous Quotes by Canadians

  • “Who would have thought it would be possible to run across Canada on one leg, eh? I wanted to try the impossible and show that it could be done.” – Terry Fox
  • “It would seem I wouldn’t have written anything if I weren’t influenced by Canada’s history, its weather, the landscape, and its stories.” – Anne McDonald
  • “I’m a Canadian. Outside Canada, I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn’t as insidious as American nationalism, though. It’s good-natured. It’s all about maple syrup, not war.” – Feist
  • “I think Canada has a great story, and I’m glad to tell it.” – Justin Trudeau
  • “For a small population, Canada has always had a very strong and vibrant style.” – Coco Rocha
  • “Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.” – Steve Miller
Quotes by Canadians from Douglas Coupland

Canada Day Quotes

  • Happy Canada D’eh! 🇨🇦
  • “Canada has two emblems – the beaver and the maple.” – John W. Dawson
  • “Canada is a free country, after all.” – Rebecca McNutt
  • “Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.” – Jack Layton
  • “Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.” – Alessia Cara
  • “Canada is hockey.” – Mike Weir
  • “Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.” – Wilfrid Laurier
  • “Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world.” – Barack Obama
  • “Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.” – Kim Campbell
  • “Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.” – Pierre Trudeau
  • “My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.” – Jim Carrey
  • “I’m so proud to be Canadian. I’ve been to 58 countries, and they’re wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.” – Paul Henderson
  • “Canadians come from every corner of the world, speak two official languages and hundreds more, a practice many faiths, and represent many cultures. Multiculturalism is at the heart of Canada’s heritage and identity – and as Canadians, we recognize that our differences make us strong.” – Justin Trudeau
  • “I believe the world needs more Canada.” – Bono
  • “In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity and mutual respect.” – Bill Clinton
  • “Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!” – John A MacDonald
  • “My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.” – Tommy Douglas
  • “Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people haven’t always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel”. – Wilfrid Laurier
  • “When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.” – Jane Fonda

Funny Canada Quotes

  • “By January it had always been winter.” – Annie Proulx
  • “Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.” – Pierre Trudeau
  • “I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to improve and to try to join the Groundlings.” – Ryan Reynolds
  • “Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television”. – William Gibson
  • “Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.” – Douglas Coupland
  • “Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn’t you? Look harder. It’s where someone got axed in the snow.” – Margaret Atwood
  • “Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Canada as the place where the weather comes from.” – Margaret Atwood
  • “I’m not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.” – Ryan Reynolds
  • “Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word”. – Alberto Manguel
  • “Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.” – Mark Leiren-Young
  • “’Snow in April is abominable,’ said Anne. ‘Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.’” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • “Canada is going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it.” –Andrew H. Malcolm
  • “Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.” – Robin Williams
  • “Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.” – Edgar Friedenberg
  • “I don’t even know what street Canada is on.” – Al Capone
  • “I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it’s the first place I’ll go.” – Ryan Reynolds
  • “I’ve been to Canada, and I’ve always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.” – Jon Stewart
  • “In Canada, anything that’s not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.” – Dolores O’Riordan
  • “It’s only November, and I can’t remember the last time I was warm.” – Jessica Martinez
  • “You’re just America-on-ice.” – Andrew O’Hagan
  • “When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, ‘Well, what do you need?” – Steven Wright
Famous quotes by Canadians from Pierre Trudeau

Canada Travel Quotes

  • “Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.” – Margaret Atwood
  • “Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematics of not being.” – Mike Myer
  • “Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.” – Marshall McLuhan
  • “Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who’ve never been there, and it’s like, ‘You’ve never been to my whole world?” – Carly Rae Jepsen
  • “Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we’re a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto’s a city that doesn’t even have a dish named after it.” – Mike Myers
  • “I came from Canada, where it’s freezing cold for seven months out of the year.” – Rachelle Lefevre
  • “I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.” – Margaret Atwood
  • “I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada – timberwolves, creeks, snowdrifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.” – Dan Aykroyd
  • “And some places you been before are so great that you don’t even mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.” – Morgan Freeman
  • “It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.” – Emily Carr
  • “It’s Niagara Falls. It’s one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn’t want to walk across it?” – Nik Wallenda
  • “Their roar is around me. I am on the brink of the great waters—and their anthem voice goes up amid the rainbow and the mist.” – Grenville Mellen
  • “In Canada, we’re happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we’re happy to set their broken bones for free.” – Douglas Coupland
  • “Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.” – Jenifer Mohammed
  • “The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places – the school, the church, and the skating rink – but our real life was on the skating rink.” – Roch Carrier

Canada Captions for Instagram

  • Oh, Canada!
  • Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s maple leaves
  • Made in Canada.
  • May the forest be with you.
  • Meanwhile, in Canada…
  • Just another Tuesday in Canada
  • On behalf of all Canadians, sorry for being so awesome all the time
  • One day, Canada will take over the world. Then you’ll all be sorry.
  • Social distancing. Please stand 46 Timbits apart.
  • The world needs more Canada.
  • Tim Hortons. The first stop of every road trip in Canada
  • We shouldn’t have iced Canada for so long!
  • We’re strong believers in peacekeeping. Except on the ice.
  • What are the 2 seasons in Canada? Winter and July!
  • What do you call a sophisticated American? Canadian
  • What’s the difference between a Canadian and a unicorn? Nothing, they’re both fictional characters.
  • What’s the difference between an American and a Canadian? A Canadian not only has a sense of humour but can also spell it.
  • You can’t buy happiness, but you can live in Canada. And that’s pretty much the same thing
  • You know you’re in Canada when you describe location based on which Tim Horton’s it is by
  • Canada is always a good idea
  • Canada: Living the American Dream without the violence since 1867.
  • Canada: The world’s best kept secret
  • Canadian Made. Canadian Raised.
  • Canadian girls do it better 🇨🇦
  • Everytime I hear a mean joke about being Canadian, I go to the hospital and get my feelings checked for free.
  • Home is where the maple leaf is.
  • I’m Canadian. What’s your superpower?
  • If you didn’t roll up the rim, did you even have coffee?
  • In Canada, it’s beer, hockey, and then everything else
  • Keep calm and…I’m Canadian. I’m always calm
Canadian quotes and captions image of Canadian canoes

Canada Puns

  • Yukon see the Northern lights from here!
  • Don’t go chasing Niagara Falls.
  • Feeling a bit Superior today.
  • I’m in Huron to get to the airport.
  • Having a Fundy time!
  • I Canada believe this place!
  • Chilling with my birches.
  • You’re making a mountain out of a Molson
  • Sooner oar later
  • Why shouldn’t curlers tell jokes on the ice? Because it might crack up!
  • Why I Ottawa.
  • Whistler while you work!
  • What was the skeleton doing at the hockey game? Driving the zam-boney.
  • I’ll be dam‘ed
  • What the puck!
  • Puck-er up.
  • Canadians are ‘eh holes.
  • Life is better when we hockey stick together.
  • We’re having a part-eh!
  • Someone is talking badly about Canada, but I was having Nunavut!
  • To summit all up, this trip has been amazing.
  • This place gives me an Erie feeling.
  • Isn’t it Trudeau?
  • She’s a butter tart face
  • The views here are unbe-leaf-able.
  • Stop poutine on airs
  • I’m on the eh Team
  • Aboat time
  • I’m on a lobster roll
  • I went to Labatt for you
  • I just found out Canada isn’t real. Turns out it was all mapleleaf
  • Hi Canada, it’s ice to meet you!
  • Don’t go bacon my heart
  • Don’t get cod feet
  • Dock to the hand!
  • Canadian weather is snow joke
  • Canada wins best in snow
  • Canada is eh okay
  • Canada is double-double the fun
  • Why is maple syrup always so sad? Because it’s sappy!
  • Tundra bolt and lightning. Very, very frightening
  • We mist our chance

Moose Puns

  • It’s the moose wonderful time of the year.
  • Don’t moose with us!
  • Canada is a-moosing.
  • What has antlers and sucks blood? A moose-quito!
Toronto sign for captions

Toronto Quotes & Captions

  • You can leave Toronto but it will never leave you
  • They say ‘do what makes you happy’ so I bought a ticket to Toronto
  • There’s so much to CN do in Toronto.
  • Started from the bottom, now we here
  • I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of the Toronto skyline with you
  • I wonder if Toronto misses me too
  • Follow your heart, even if it takes you all the way to Toronto
  • Bright lights & Toronto nights
  • Because I had nowhere else to go in Toronto.
  • All you need is love and the Toronto skyline
  • “There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them.” – Kevin Owens
  • “The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength”. – Anthony Bourdain
  • “If people ask me, ‘What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,’ I’d say there’s nothing to improve on.” – David Chang
  • “I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.” – Alain Ducasse
  • “I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.” – Kendrick Lamar
  • “Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I’m on the side of the music.” – Tory Lanez
  • “It’s easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.” Yo-Yo Ma
  • “I’m a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it’s like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that’s a lovely environment” – Emory Cohen
  • “I like B.C. because it’s so beautiful, but I think Toronto’s the greatest place because every corner of the world is here.” – Rupi Kaur

Montreal Quotes & Captions

  • “You know what’s nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.” – Jamie Farr
  • “Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless”. – Anthony Bourdain
  • “This is my home territory. I still find it the most colourful and exciting city on the continent. I love Montréal. I love the clash of the two cultures, I love the scenery—I love every blessed centimeter of Montréal, if that doesn’t sound too extravagant. It’s a city I’m very attached to.” – Irving Layton
  • “There is something special about Montréal, I don’t know what it is because I didn’t spend enough time here, but the band is attracted by the city. Maybe it’s because of the dual culture which, in a way, reminds us of Ireland, or because Montréal is more a cultural centre than a political centre, or simply because Montréal has some of the most beautiful women I ever saw in my life.”- Bono
  • “Montréal, this wonderful town….Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.” – Mikhail Gorbachev
  • “Montréal is a great city, a terrific city.” – Robert De Niro
  • “I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens’ past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens – it was my dad’s team.” – Guy Lafleur
  • “I feel like family in Québec and Montréal, and by the way, Montréal is my favourite city in the world! It’s the only place that combines all the good things about Europe and America, with none of the bad!” – Holly Cole, Jazz Singer
  • “I’ll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I’m from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It’s my roots, my origins, and it’s the most important thing to me.” – Celine Dion
Banff quotes from Canada

Banff Quotes & Captions

  • This camp sky is a five billion star hotel.
  • Jasper hands.
  • “I guess the most beautiful sound in the Canadian Rockies is just silence.” – Eddie Hunter
  • Having fun is so impor-tent.
  • Going to the lake. Bear with me.
  • “A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world.” – Munia Khan
  • “These mountains are a whole different thing in themselves. Every minute it’s a different place.” – Dan Hudson

Vancouver Quotes & Captions

  • Which Canadian city is full of fierce cats? Vancougar
  • What did Victoria say to Vancouver? I’ll BC-ing you later.
  • What did the snow say to the Rocky Mountains? I’ve got your covered.
  • You’ve really peaked my interest
  • There’s snow place like the mountains
  • Once upon a time in Vancouver.
  • In Vancouver the seasons are, almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
  • I left my heart in Vancouver.
  • Happiness is…. holding tickets that say Vancouver.
  • A bad day in Vancouver is still better than a good day anywhere else.
  • “Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.” – Homer
  • “Vancouver is gorgeous; I’ve never been to any place like it.” – Jason Ralph
  • “Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.” – Justin Trudeau
  • “My favorite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.” – Matthew Morrison
  • “I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it’s just mountains and ocean.”- Emma Bell
  • “I love the whole layout of Vancouver and the super-friendly people who live there.” – Hannah Teter
  • “I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!” – Julie McNiven

Closing Thoughts on Canada Quotes and Captions

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Canada Travel Planning Guide

🚑 Should I buy Canada travel insurance?

100% YES! — Canada has “free” healthcare but it’s only for citizens! Foreigners visiting need travel insurance in case anything happens on their visit. I recommend World Nomads – starting at just $5 a day!

💧Can you drink the water in Canada?

Yes — In all major cities in Canada, you can drink the tap water. There are very few, rural areas that you can’t. However, you should never drink river or lake water anywhere in the country! I recommend a Brita Water Bottle for long hikes and backcountry camping to stay safe and hydrated.

🚙💨 Is it safe to rent a car in Canada?

Yes Renting a car is a necessity in most of Canada! If you want to go on road trips or adventures outside of the major cities, you’ll need to rent a car. (Read more)

📲 Will my phone work in Canada?

Maybe — Some American companies work in Canada, but many will not. If your phone doesn’t work in Canada, I recommend getting a Canadian SIM card so you can get around and stay in contact with loved ones. We don’t have a lot of free WIFI in Canada, so you’ll need your phone for maps.

🏩 What’s the best way to book my Canada accommodations?

My go-to for Canadian hotels is Booking.com. For hostels, I use Hostel World. If you want a home-y feeling, check out VRBO (which is cheaper and safer than Airbnb).

Or get free accommodations with Trusted Housesitters!

✈️ What’s the best site to buy Canada flights?

For finding cheap Canadian flights, I recommend Skyscanner.

🎫 Do I need a visa for Canada?

Likely Not — US, UK, and EU passport holders don’t need Canadian visas. However, some other countries do (check here!). And if you plan to stay for more than 4 weeks (an average tourist visa length), you will need to look into visas to live in Canada.