The election of Donald Trump has some Americans looking north, perhaps to make a new home in a country removed from Trump's style of Republicanism.
Many said jokingly if Trump were elected they would move to Canada. For some, it's no longer a joke.
"You'll never be my president because I'm moving to Canada!" shouted one woman at a protest.
The declaration was born in anger and frustration, but also reflects what many Americans have been soberly contemplating.
On election night in the United States, an unusual occurrence took place with the computer systems of the Canadian immigration and citizenship department. They crashed, more than once, and remained offline for hours. Canadian officials confirm it was because of a spike in the amount of web traffic, most of it from the U.S.
Another website has received a lot of attention following the recent election. This one is based in the U.S. It's called Maple Match, a dating app designed to match Americans with Canadians. The site's front page reads, "Worried about life under a Trump presidency? The unfathomable horror is coming soon, but we've got your back."
"Since we launched the app, we've been upgrading our servers almost every day to handle the level of downloads and traffic on the site and the app,” CEO Joe Goldman said. “Naturally, there are more Americans by about a factor of nine."
Canada's east coast region of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia has been advertising to Americans for several months and that has sparked significant online interest, as well as a spike in tourist visits by Americans.
"We're seeing as much as 700 percent increases in visits to our sites in states like Illinois, 300 percent increases from California, from Florida [and] from New York," said Mary Tulle with Cape Breton tourism.
But while the interest is acute, immigration lawyers like Lee Cohen warn that getting into Canada is not as easy as packing up and heading north.
"Immigrating to Canada is a complex, paper-intensive, time-consuming process with a little bit of expense attached to it," Cohen said.
Canada normally accepts only 6,000 American immigrants a year. Officials are expecting many times that number in the wake of the election.
As for coming to Toronto, most Americans will be deterred when they find out the cost of housing in one of Canada's hottest real estate markets.