I had to wait 24-hours to respond after the initial 5 posts, so apologize for the delayed response!

I appreciate all of the feedback. Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to this.

I spoke with Air Canada again and brought up many of these issues. Of course, their response is not to worry, we will make the connection.

The baggage should check through, so hopefully that eliminates a bottleneck.

There are two flights following ours at 9:30a and 10a respectively that would get us there on time.

However, both of these flights are completely full; there are 6 or less first class spaces available on each flight. As we are economy, we are not eligible for first class, and were told that we would have to fly standby with the hope they could reseat existing passengers so we could stay together as a family, in some fashion.

There is one flight the day prior into Toronto, which is full, with only a few business class seats or higher available. We would have to fly standby with no guarantee as they won’t upgrade our class, and doing so as a price upgrade is prohibitively expensive, more so than a new flight into YVR. I can’t cancel one portion as they are on the same ticket.

At this point, I don’t see any other options aside from sticking to our current plan and hoping for the best.

Retrospectively, I would not have chosen this setup, but our travel agent explained to us, having never traveled in Canada, that we would go through Customs at our final destination in Vancouver.

Seeing as our current flight was scheduled to land by 10:30AM, and our port check-in time is 2:30, I did not think this would be the issue that it is given the 25 minute tram ride between the two.