Lauttainfo Canada is one part of lauttainfo.com, a small independent project that began with Finnish road ferries and now keeps a separate guide for several countries. Nobody here works for a ferry operator, a ministry of highways or a tourism board, and the site takes no payment from any of them. The pages are paid for by advertising.
A large share of the crossings we cover are not commercial routes at all. They are road links run by a province or territory — a cable ferry on the South Saskatchewan, a reaction ferry on a British Columbia lake, a river crossing that carries a northern highway until freeze-up. For those, the page is built from what the responsible department publishes: its list of crossings, its hours of operation, its season notices and its road-condition service. Where a private company or a township runs the boat, its own timetable and fare sheet are the source instead.
Every number on a crossing page is tied to a document we saved on the day we read it, and the date appears beside the table. If two official sources disagree, or the only source is a third-party listing, the number is left out and the page says so. That is why some pages have no fare table or no fixed departure times: an honest gap is more useful than a figure that may be wrong when you reach the landing.
Seasons move faster than websites. Ice, low water, a vessel in refit or a flood can close a Canadian crossing between two of our checks, so each page carries the date it was last verified and the date it is due to be looked at again. The buttons at the top of every page go straight to the operator or the provincial service, which is where a same-day closure will be announced first.
Spotted something out of date? Write to [email protected] with the crossing and what you saw. Corrections are checked against the official source before anything on the page changes.