181 Quotes about Canada: Instagram Captions Inspiration

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Looking for quotes about Canada? You are at the right spot. In this post, we will share Canada Instagram captions, puns, sayings and of course, popular Canada quotes for use on social media, notebooks, wall art, and beyond!

Canada is more than a country, it stands for tolerance, multiculturalism, and inclusivity. Widely known as a peaceful nation, loved for its polite demeanor, and wittingly teased for braving the cold weather, cute-sy loonies, and toonies, eh – we are still a FUN bunch of people!

Read on: 181 famous Canada quotes to inspire you today to like, love, and visit us!

181 Inspirational Canada Quotes | Canada Instagram Captions | Quotes about Canada

Canada has always been there to help people who need it.

Justin Trudeau

“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 is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.” – Emily Carr

“Canada is hockey.” – Mike Weir

“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

“Your Canadian roots define you for all of your life, no matter where you go, no matter what you do.” – Alanis Morissette

“Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts”. – Steve Miller

“ 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

“Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.” – Marshall McLuhan

The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.

JUSTIN TRUDEAU

“Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television”. – William Gibson

“More than ever was I convinced that the old way of seeing was inadequate to express this big country of ours, her depth, her height, her unbounded wildness, silence too strong to be broken – nor could ten million cameras, through their mechanical boxes, ever show real Canada. It had to be sensed, passed through live minds, sensed and loved.” – Emily Carr, Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.” – Norman Angell

“Canada is one of the planet’s most comfortable, and caring, societies.” – Times Magazine

“Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.” – Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here

“Canada is a free country, after all.” – Rebecca McNutt, The Collected Smog City Book Series

“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

I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

John G. Diefenbaker

“Canada has two emblems – the beaver and the maple.” – John W. Dawson

“Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.” – Kim Campbell

“Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.” – Jack Layton

“I take tips from Canada on a lot of things.” – Barack Obama

“I believe the world needs more Canada.” – Bono

“Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!” – John A MacDonald 

“We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.” – Romeo LeBlanc

Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I’m jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.

Justin Trudeau

“Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.”  – Wilfrid Laurier

“Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world.”  – Barack Obama

“When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.” –  Jane Fonda

“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

“Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet”. – Alanis Morissette

Canada Instagram Captions

Here are some of the cool Canada captions for Instagram and other social media channels!

“You can’t buy happiness, but you can live in Canada. And that’s pretty much the same thing”

“I’m Canadian. What’s your superpower?”

“Home is where the maple leaf is.”

“Aboat time.” 

“Oh, Canada!”

“Keep calm and…I’m Canadian. I’m always calm.”

“One day, Canada will take over the world. Then you’ll all be sorry.”

“Canada: The world’s best kept secret.”

“I always beleaf in you, Canada.”

“Meanwhile, in Canada”

“I left my heart in Canada”

“If you didn’t roll up the rim, did you even have coffee?”

“Tim Hortons. The first stop of every road trip in Canada.”

“On behalf of all Canadians, sorry for being so awesome all the time”

“Canada is double-double the fun.”

Canada Puns and Jokes

“Canada is eh okay.”

“Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party”. – Robin Williams

“Life is better when we hockey stick together.”

“Hi Canada, it’s ice to meet you!”

“I’m on the Eh Team”

“Cana-duh.”

“Canadians are ‘eh holes.”

“Isn’t it Trudeau?”

“Canada is a-moosing.”

“Canadian weather is snow joke.”

“I Canada believe this place”

“Having a Fundy time!”

“Happy Birthd’eh, Canada!”

“Happy Canada D’eh!”

“Having a part-eh”

“One day, Canada will take over the world. Then you’ll all be sorry.”

“Someone is talking badly about Canada, but I was having Nunavut!”

“We’re strong believers in peacekeeping. Except on the ice.”

“You’re just America-on-ice.” – Andrew O’Hagan

“I don’t even know what street Canada is on”. – Al Capone

“Canada was built on dead beavers.” – Margaret Atwood

“I’m on a lobster roll.”

“Canada is always a good idea.”

“Made in Canada.”

“Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.” – Preston Manning

Canada Winter Quotes

“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

“Snow in April is abominable,” said Anne. “Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss”.- Writer Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of Ingleside

“I came from Canada, where it’s freezing cold for seven months out of the year”. – Rachelle Lefevre

“Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word”. – Canadian-Argentine writer Alberto Manguel

Canada is not a country for the cold of the heart or the cold of feet.

PIERRE TRUDEAU

“It’s only November, and I can’t remember the last time I was warm.” – Jessica Martinez

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck

“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

“Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.” – Mark Leiren-Young

“I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half-hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It’s absolutely incredible”. – Sebastian Bach

“Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice”. – Douglas Coupland

”To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy.” – Louis Armand de Lom d’Arce Lahontan

“Canada’s climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.” – Evan Esar

Quotes about multiculturalism in Canada & its diversity

Wonderful multicultural life quotes in Canada. 

“Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.” – Alessia Cara

“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

“To become a country, and truly call ourselves Canada, it means we must become one.“ – Gord Downie

“There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don’t think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.” – Stephen Harper

“We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity, life would be very boring.“ – Catherine Pulsifer

“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

“Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind…That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.” – Prince Karim Aga Khan IV

“Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not 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

“North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom”. –Michael Adams

“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

Proud to be Canadian: Quotes by famous individuals

Use these inspirational quotes from famous Canadians for your Instagram or Facebook captions! They are perfect for Canada Day celebrations or just to showcase your LOVE for the Great White North!

“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

“I think Canada has a great story, and I’m glad to tell it”. – Justin Trudeau

“ My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian” .- Jim Carrey

“For a small population, Canada has always had a very strong and vibrant style”. – Coco Rocha

“I love Canada, always”. – Melanie Fiona

“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 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 

“I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.” – Kevin O’Leary

“I’m happy being Canadian and I’m proud of where I come from. So I’ll keep my passport.” – Autumn Phillips

“Canada’s the best country in the world.” – Justin Bieber

“It’s the time of year when Canadians mate”. – Craig Ferguson

“I drink maple syrup. Then I’m hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.” – Rachel McAdams

I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn’t live anywhere else. It’s half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic – nicer than any people in the world.

SONDRA Radvanovsky

“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

“I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies”. – Jay Baruchel

“I’m not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.” – Ryan Reynolds

“I’m obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I’m really into folk music and folklore. But more so I’m into electronic music. I’m into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It’s kind of what I wanted to achieve”. – Ellie Goulding

“Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace – it lends perspective”. – Paul Anka

“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

Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They’re nice; they’re polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.

Adam Grant

“We went for a weekend last fall and got a flat tire and these two farmers with bright-red faces insisted on fixing it, then springing for dinner, then starting a college fund for the babies”. – George Saunders

“I have visited nearly 60 countries and lived in the U.S.S.R., Russia, and the U.S.A., and I have never experienced anything as good as what we have. Only in the Anglosphere countries – the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – is there anything comparable. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away”. – Peter Hitchens

“The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it’s like being in a Days Inn; it’s very clean and very nice.” – Bill Ayers

“I love Canada. It’s a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.” – Yann Martel

“I look at Canada like a second home.” – Prince Andrew

“Everything about Canada makes me proud to be Canadian”. – Jason Priestley

“In Canada, it’s beer, hockey, and then everything else”. – Edge

“Canada is a broad land – broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.” – Harry S. Truman

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

RYAN GOSLING

“We welcome people from all nations to come in and share.” – Peter Stoffer

“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 think that we are blessed to live here in Canada.” – Julie Payette

Canada Travel Quotes and Food

“The fact that over 50 percent 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

“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.” – Howie Mandel

“In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations — it’s cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.” – James Keate

“We have never been a melting pot. The fact is we are more like a tossed salad. We are green, some of us are oily, and there’s a little vinegar injected when you get up to Ottawa.” – Armold Edinborough

Toronto Canada Quotes 

“I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.” – Kendrick Lamar

“You know what, I’d done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.” – Keanu Reeves

“Toronto is home; nothing beats home.” – Ellen Wong

“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 love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits”. – Aisha Tyler

“I love Toronto, It’s the best city.” – Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

“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

“There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them.” – Kevin Owens

“Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I’m on the side of the music.” – Tory Lanez

“Everywhere I go, every city, they’re always like, ‘What’s in the water in Canada? What’s in the water in Toronto?” – Alessia Cara

“If people ask me, ‘What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,’ I’d say there’s nothing to improve on.” – David Chang

“If you’re big in Montreal, you’re big in Quebec. If you’re big in Toronto, you’re big in Canada. But if you’re big in New York, you’re big in the rest of the world.” – Shane Smith

“Toronto is obviously Drake city.” – Kris Wu

“I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.” – Alain Ducasse

“And when things are not going well in Toronto, you’re going to hear about it. And you’re going to say things are not good at all, where it’s really not that bad.” – Matt Sundin

“When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren’t for Toronto.” – Drake

“Toronto is my favourite city in the world.” – Poo Bear

“I’m a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.” – Kiefer Sutherland

“I think it’s because Toronto is the Gothenburg of Canada, with the trends and the music and everything. I feel very at home when I’m there. Everyone has always been so kind to me.” – Jens Lekman

“I left my heart in Toronto”

” A bad day in Toronto is still better than a good day anywhere else.”

“You can leave Toronto but it will never leave you”

Montreal Quotes

“Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless”. – Anthony Bourdain

“Montréal is a great city, a terrific city.” – Robert De Niro

“Montreal is just so multicultural and ethnic and diverse, and it’s what makes us special. I say ‘us’ like I still live there, but I still do feel like a Montrealer.” – Antoni Porowski

“Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.” – Jason Reitman

“Food from Quebec is not known to be amazing. Actually, even though you can eat really, really well in Montreal, it’s crazy. It’s one of the best cities I eat in, but typical Quebec food is like food from people that work in the woods. It’s potatoes, meat and sauce.” – Charlotte Le Bon

“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

“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, lead singer of U2

“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

“You know what’s nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.” – Jamie Farr

“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

“Montréal, this wonderful town….Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.” – Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet President 

“French girls, especially those from Montreal, are known to be the most beautiful women in the world.” – Maryse Mizanin

Canadian Rockies & Banff Quotes for Instagram Captions

“These mountains are a whole different thing in themselves. Every minute it’s a different place.” – Dan Hudson

“This camp sky is a five billion star hotel.” 

“I guess the most beautiful sound in the Canadian Rockies is just silence.” – Eddie Hunter

“Going to the lake. Bear with me.”

“Having fun is so impor-tent.”

“A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world.” – Munia Khan

Niagara Quotes

“It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.” – Nikola Tesla

“All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator’s power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.” – John James Audubon

“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” – Harry Emerson

“At last, fortissimo!” – Austrian composer Gustav Mahler

“Miss Farrell has a voice like some unparalleled phenomenon of nature. She is to singers what Niagara is to waterfalls.” – Alfred Frankenstein

“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.” – Niagara by Grenville Mellen

“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

Quotes about Vancouver 

“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

“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

“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

“I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it’s just mountains and ocean.”- Emma Bell

“I’m amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it’s changed. You go away for a month and there’s three more skyscrapers.” – Bryan Adams

“My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.” – Matthew Morrison

“Vancouver is gorgeous; I’ve never been to any place like it.” – Jason Ralph

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