# Calling Canada

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-canada/132877>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 18, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-canada/132877 "2002-10-18T19:35:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-canada/132877/1 "2002-10-18T19:35:47Z")

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Hello, if I want to call a friend in Vancouver, BC from where I live (USA) do I have to dial anything besides the area code+phone number? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-canada/132877/2 "2002-10-18T19:43:38Z")

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Dial it just like you’d call someone in a different area code in the US.

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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-canada/132877/3 "2002-10-19T04:06:58Z")

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Call up the Vancouver Operator and say, “Can you please connect me to my friend, eh?”

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**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-canada/132877/4 "2002-10-19T04:32:32Z")

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With apologies to Mark Knofler 😛

Calling Canada - is anybody home  
Calling Canada - I’m here all alone  
Did it leave the continent  
Or can it come to the phone  
Calling Canada - I’m here all alone

Well tell it I was calling just to wish it well  
Let me leave my number - heartbreak hotel  
Oh love me tender - baby don’t be cruel  
Return to sender - treat me like a fool

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-canada/132877/5 "2002-10-19T04:41:59Z")

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Just ask your local operator to call Canada and ask if your friend is there.

He’ll be easy to find because there are only, like 12 people here.  
Seriously, though: somewhere among the first pages of your white page phone book should be a list all the area codes for North America. Vancouver has 2 codes, 604 and 778, which you can use exactly as you would for a long-distance call within the U.S. You might have to dial “1” first.