Bring them along to Canada and you're good to go.

Some confusion happenes because several US air carriers classify Canada as "domestic" for the purposes of lounge access. Has nothing to do with governmental definitions, of course.

Abroad? Must.... Not... Make... Sexist... Joke... aaaargh!

Some Québécois might consider "Canada" to be abroad :D

I have to admit that I checked dictionary.com to be sure, unlike questions about needing a passport flying from California to Hawaii.

No one in California would describe their trip to Canada as "going abroad".

Next question in line: why is it called Canada?

"Canada" means "America's Hat" in the Inuit language.

Is that a fact? What I had in mind was why is the country called "Canada" if the people are "Canadian" (or vice versa)? Is it a part of some plot by the French to infiltrate the English language? Let's not open a can of worms though, especially not in the wrong thread.

I can't believe the OP is even a serious question. Whether or not you use 'abroad' as colloquial for a near or far journey, Canada, from any other country but Canada, including the US, is 'abroad'.

"America" means "Canada's butt" in the same language.:)

I've also seen one asking where to exchange currency when going from the mainland to Hawaii.

I've actually had this conversation with friends before. We went to dinner and a show in Windsor last year...joked about taking a "trip abroad". Or, since we did cross a body of water, "overseas". (OK, so it was a river...) :D

Outside of a joke, I'd never use "abroad" for Canada or Mexico, or anything Caribbean. Technically Webster may give me the right to, but it still sounds silly. Just like I probably wouldn't say "overseas" for Hawaii or the Caribbean, even though it technically is. It'd bound to gather some rolled eyes from your audience.

As I heard it, the country's founders decided to name it by drawing Scrabble tiles out of a bag. It went:

C, eh?
N, eh?
D, eh?

Just as people in Belgium are unlikely to say they going abroad when they spend a few hours in France, and my Thai friends don't consider a weekend in Singapore 'going abroad'. The term has (misleading) colloquial connotations of travelling somewhere exotic, like going from Lansing, Michigan, to Rangpur or Saigon, but technically it comes down to crossing the border.