The Places Where Sneaking Over the US-Canada Border is Legal

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[@hahahatall09]

"Hey, Mom? Can I have the Canadian bedroom?"

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

"Of course honey. Are you feeling sick and don't want to go broke?"

[@varana]

"But you must apologize to your brother first!"

[@coreytaylor447]

mum said its my turn to use to canada

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

Mom: Sorry.. try again. Kid: Hey Mom, Can I have the Canadian bedroom .. eh? Mom: Yes you can.

[@RJINCORP]

Has maple trees in the front yard and a shooting range in the back*

[@MaximeLeblanc91]

I grew up in Estcourt, Quebec. My grandparents had one of the houses crossed by the border. When I ate there, my grandmother and I would be eating at the same table, but in different countries.

[@frankpinmtl]

@Águila701 ...and you in the US would be eating off a steak and seafood buffet, while she had rice and beans.

[@Zodamay]

@@frankpinmtl More likely frozen crappy food from the dollar tree store like most people in Texas

[@frankpinmtl]

@Águila701 Wasn't a poke at Mexico, my friend...

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@Águila701 damn

[@zeusvalentine]

@Águila701 Well, in all fairness, Canadians haven't flooded into the USA with millions of undocumented workers, so maybe that's why.

[@boriskalashnikov489]

"So, what is your reason for coming to the US today?" "Oh, I'm just getting gas"

[@atozed932]

My grandpa, living in Creston BC (across the border from Porthill ID) would do that.

[@juliandb4699]

In europe that happens so often, I'm mindblown by this video

[@ArcanisUrriah]

Half of England used to day trip to France on the ferry to get cheap booze.

[@AndrewAMartin]

There was a time during the 70's growing up in Michigan that people would drive to Windsor, Canada to get gas -- the combination of exchange rate and pricing by the liter made it cheaper than in the US. I remember seeing stories on the local TV news about it...

[@uruiamnot]

That reason is so common as to long ago ceased to be much of a conversation piece. Vermont should run ads on Canadian TV, lol.

[@averagejoe9455]

“Mom, bring me my passport I’m gonna play in the backyard”

[@justinian536]

lol

[@Hyperboid]

more like in the neighbors backyard

[@Bloor25]

lol

[@azaria_phd]

Question is, if you do some terrible crime in the US backyard of your Canadian home, like, for example, selling a Kinder egg. Would you be tried by Canadian or American law?

[@Nxkamxbxms]

One more like for 1k just so you know.

[@thestudentofficial5483]

Finally I can safely set up my Kinder egg smuggling business!

[@kyemerchant5455]

They're already legal in america stupid

[@xander1052]

@@kyemerchant5455 have you heard of a joke

[@antikommunistischaktion]

@@kyemerchant5455 No they're not. Kinder created a new product that could legally be sold in the US but the chocolate egg with a toy inside a capsule is still illegal.

[@kyemerchant5455]

@@xander1052 that wasn't funny at all stop protecting him

[@kyemerchant5455]

@@antikommunistischaktion and idk I see them when I go to sheetz so I just assumed they were the same thing.

[@Ryudawg]

I live in Australia. Whats a national boarder again?

[@MK.5198]

for you? The water.

[@axirnindar4171]

Emu territory.

[@christophergraffam3552]

The Dingo fence protecting the Southeast.

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

The tourist staying in your basement.

[@talentleesdorito9771]

U forgot about the emus

[@dude-ko7qm]

"having a criminal record is bad for politics" oh really? I wouldn't know considering current politicians

[@jeffbenton6183]

No convictions for them, though (at least, not before coming into office)

[@ninja_tony]

@@jeffbenton6183 There will be plenty after though!

[@gocatsgo08]

Current soon-too-be ex-politicians.

[@Bovice..YT-handles-are-fn-dumb]

@@jeffbenton6183 Have you heard of Rick Scott? He ran the largest healthcare company in the 90/00's, defrauded medicare/medicaid $2 billion, was never charged w a crime.... and is now Floridas Senator, for a decade. The Kennedys became rich as bootleggers during the prohibition. Prescott Bush (father/grand of both Bush presidents) was head of a bank that transferred Nazi wealth during WWII... and was Connecticut Senator in the 50s. America was founded by slave owning Brits, that left Britain when they ended slavery. Thats actually very American.

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@Bovice..YT-handles-are-fn-dumb Slight correction: The British Empire banned slavery after the US broke off.

[@kenjohn38]

I drove from New York to Montreal two years ago for a Labor Day trip. When I was stopped at the border, the officer asked whether I would leave anything behind during my trip. I responded, without thinking much, that I would have to go to the bathroom. He laughed so loud that officers fifty feet away heard him well. Needless to say, I passed border check readily and with much ease :-)

[@danielduncan6806]

The other officers were like "Someone must have told the potty joke again, thinking it is funny and he is just humoring them again." Seriously, they hear that crap all day long.

[@jormungandrtheserpentsaint1414]

@@danielduncan6806 crap? Ohhhh thats what he'll be leaving behind.

[@diegobenavides1655]

Probablemente continúa riéndose al enterarse que kk iba de regreso a NW.

[@diegobenavides1655]

NY.

[@brrrrrr]

@@diegobenavides1655 new work

[@SpaghettiRoad]

Another half as interesting video that is more than half as interesting!

[@angelgames9351]

Spaghetti Road 3/4 as interesting

[@lourencovieira5424]

51/100

[@Ryudawg]

Fully interesting

[@lagritsalammas]

The one half is in Canada and the other in the US.

[@purewaterruler]

Well it's not half as interesting as something that is 3 times as interesting as this

[@DerPoto]

The places where sneaking over the US-Canada border is legal *laughs in Europe and Schengen Zone*

[@marinnabigh]

Schengen

[@DerPoto]

Sleep The Creep you didn’t see anything

[@xureality]

Szechuan

[@Meg_A_Byte]

this

[@acerusea5156]

Americans and Canadians: *laughs in secure borders*

[@user-jd4so3hr3t]

People living near the American-Canadian border likes to exercise a lot. They sometimes walk across countries for a daily exercise.

[@maxw1567]

In Europe completely normal and for some a everyday practice

[@spaghettigum]

carrying weird large packages wich they leave withour

[@ravysaini127]

My city is right next to the USA. It's just a couple minute drive and your in amercia

[@stevest1300]

Until the world went nuts, I remember crossing the border as a kid with the family with nothing more than a 30 second chat with the border guard, usually about the weather. Southern BC had a number of "rum runner trails" that were often used for nothing more than a shortcut than driving all the way to a formal crossing. Gun smugglers and drug dealers spoiled it all.

[@jaewardtattoo]

I mean, it's not called a rum runner trail for nothing

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

This was before 9/11.

[@claytonberg721]

With the right passport it's still like that at the tijuana/san diego border. I've been there twice, they see the canadian passport and basically ask if you've bought anything of great value and tell you to have a nice day. It's painless providing you don't go at the wrong time. Around 8am weekday it's a mess, tons of yanks live in Tijuana and work in San Diego because of how bad the rent is there. Tons of Mexicans live in TJ, work in San Diego. and it seems there's lots of mexican children who go to school in san diego too because they had a separate line for that. I think they're trying to document how many times americans cross because there's a lot of US citizens living in Tijuana with no documentation just because it's cheaper and it's made things expensive there for the locals. Going from San Diego into Tijuana is even more painless. Dunno what happens now because of covid however.

[@carlrosenbaum3754]

And the DEA and CIA us government are the ones running the drugs across the border for a pay out no shit true story. By the way prisons are for us not the government. Peace

[@stephenkammerling9479]

I'm sure things were interesting during prohibition.

[@Moos1005]

This video is fun considering that I just went to the Netherlands from Germany, spent the afternoon there and the only way I could tell I'm in a different country was by the changed colour of the bicycle lane 😂

[@FoucauldDegeorges]

also people speak a strange dialect of german right?

[@gurkaransahota9785]

The American and Canadian border patrol officers treat you like you just murdered someone. They ask you at least 10 question, some of them being very personal, without saying any thing like good morning, how's your day, they literally treat you like you're a piece of trash. They don't smile either. You europeans are so lucky you can just cross countries so easily

[@leonharder4846]

I sometimes cross the border just to buy vla at albert heijn

[@stevedavenport1202]

Too funny, mwn. When I was a kid in the 70s, crossing that border was easy. Now I get the criminal interrogation....no fun. I have even been into secondary about 5 times.

[@stevedavenport1202]

There arr no border controls inside of the E.U. countries.

[@nunyabiznez6381]

When I was a kid we had cousins that lived in Maine on property bounded on the east by Canada. The Canadian neighbor who owned the property next door and my cousins would invite each other over for dinner all the time. I probably illegally crossed into Canada and back as a kid thousands of times, often a dozen times a day while we would play on the stone wall separating the two properties. This was roughly 50 years ago and things have probably changed a little.

[@SuperPrem]

Lol funny. Life must be different before 9/11.

[@denverdubois5835]

What a lovely story. Thanks for that.

[@marcodamato9951]

As someone who grew up in maine. There are also a lot of snow mobile/ATV trails all through the extremely dense forests there that they can’t reasonably expect to patrol or fence. In that area it’s kind of an open secret you can’t take a snowmobile up to Canada for an afternoon and be home for dinner without seeing a border crossing.

[@Luzgar]

0:45 Pesque Isle is not an isle. And thats perfectly fine because it meins almost an isle in French.

[@sohopedeco]

I wonder what he meant with that pun. What word sounds like "presque" in English?

[@rwolfheart6580]

@@sohopedeco Maybe he misinterpreted "presque" as "près", which means "near"? As in, "it isn't near anything"

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

@@rwolfheart6580 'Presque' does mean 'near'

[@rwolfheart6580]

@@AvailableUsernameTed It depends on the sense in the phrase, though. It usually means "near" as in "nearly", not physical nearness. Like, "j'ai presque tombé" ("I nearly fell") versus "c'est près de là" ("it's near there"). In Presque Isle, it seems to mean "nearly/almost an island"

[@MrEmilecraft]

@@rwolfheart6580 "J'ai presque tombé " LMAO that's not french but your explanation of the meaning of the word is correct.

[@marc-andreservant201]

You forgot the Detroit Free Press Marathon. As long as you register for the marathon, you're running while crossing the border and you have a number tag affixed to your shirt, you can legally cross the tunnel to Windsor, Ontario and back without going through customs. This only works on that particular day, and is probably the only place in the world where running away from a CBP officer will **decrease** their level of suspicion about you.

[@EpicWolverine]

I know someone who got a DUI in Canada and got banned from the country. He also runs marathons. They will not let him run in that marathon for that reason.

[@jeffreysenecal]

When I ran the half marathon portion they required that we have our passports on us for the run. But they don't actually check your passport while you run.

[@lesmillman]

You forgot one crossing location, Waterton Lake in the Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Two National Parks across the border from each other. In the summer a tourist boat takes people on a day trip from the Waterton town site in Alberta to the south end of the lake into Montana.

[@wmarkoe236]

Please help because we’ve got to places in Montana and I have access to 3 homes in 🇨🇦. I just want to get across and work with my Country to possibly be never locked out and stuck in US. I’m a very healthy woman in Canada not in the US . Perhaps I could talk to someone who can give me options! Not a death sentence in the US !

[@MrLesonfireforGod]

@@wmarkoe236 If you are a Canadian citizen the border guards have to let you back in and cannot stop you completely. They may search your car and make things difficult for an hour or two, but you will get in.

[@taylorverrall118]

You forgot about Hyder, Alaska! There's also a park accessed from British Columbia called Silver Skagit which lets you day hike in the United States without any restrictions.

[@canyonoverland5003]

I live nearby in Canada. Here, you can cross into the United States at Ross Lake, but only for a hundred meters or so. There's an old rusty gate at the border that I don't think has ever been used.

[@leftysheppey]

That's because Alaska is in Canada

[@Remls]

*_lives halfway across the world from the US and will probably never visit_* Yes yes, this video is what I'll spend my time watching.

[@sleeptyper]

Watching *and* commenting. HAI is addictive stuff...

[@Remls]

Just trying not to drown, is all, 'sup with you

[@iyadnaseer8356]

Maldivian?

[@Remls]

ye

[@iyadnaseer8356]

@@Remls yeeee drown squad

[@nathanieong6212]

Mum, there’s an American in my bedroom !!!!!

[@jur4x]

shhh! keep quite! or he will find our oil, and next thing you know, there's an aircraft carrier at our door step!

[@MissCracker]

Imagine if they were called United Statians

[@marcopena7638]

A Dumb Bitch Columbians is fine.

[@leokennedy7624]

Mom- shhh! You have to keep quiet before the diversity and unstable politics come to Canada

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

jur4x quit with the racism

[@djkevinkelly]

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: regarding Peace Arch Park in Blaine Washington... as the video correctly states, Canadians can walk freely into the park (U.S. soil) from the adjacent neighborhood but now while the border has been closed when Canadians leave the park they are stopped and ID is checked. It is not an official typical border check, but local officials are just making sure Americans are not trying to enter Canada this way. I met my then fiance there on numerous occasions. Before covid and the border closure, ID wasn't getting checked but there are still a ton of cameras all around watching your every move. If an American were to try and leave the park and enter into the neighborhood they would be descended upon in seconds. The interesting thing about this park is when Canadians enter into it American border officials do not question them nor prevent them from coming into the park. This is all due to a treaty from the 1800s. This park has been a godsend during covid and the border closure for families that reunite at the park for get togethers. Some families are separated by the two countries and they have gotten together for picnics, weddings (including my own!) Etc. Even though we did not take the opportunity many couples would meet to....well...do the nasty lol. One end of the park is quite often covered with small little tents and you know exactly what couples are doing inside of them! (This has been happening specifically during covid.) Her and I were stuck to meeting there for almost 3 years and before the border closed because of covid quite often the park was a ghost town. (And I'm talking about the park on the American side. They're always seem to be quite a few folks walking directly underneath the Peace Arch and in the Canadian Park) Hardly anybody was there and if they were it wasn't for long. We were there shivering in the winter just to be together!

[@itsbackfliptime]

The crossing from the US into Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail is also super interesting. You still technically need a passport (or enhanced license) and a special entry permit but the border there is completely unpatrolled. It's an 8 mile hike to the nearest Canadian road and a 20 mile hike to the nearest American road.

[@StevenKluber]

The lack of plane talk in this worries me. Is everything okay?

[@Slenderman63323]

he forgot to talk about the American airport that has part of it's runway in Canada

[@forthelasttime4005]

@@clairfayne what the fuck

[@mohammedshaikh6789]

"Top quality American gasoline lovingly freed from oppression by the American military" 🤣🤣 Brutal

[@jakefeeman4019]

The funniest part of that was he showed a video of the Canadian military

[@Abdega]

He knew if he didn’t make that joke, someone in the comments would

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

Slick Willie dumbass

[@muchozolf]

1Energine1 Hey! Don't call Saudi Arabians "morons"!

[@lajya01]

It's no joke. Canadians living near the border fill their tank in the US as it can be dramatically cheaper.

[@untermench3502]

I was hunting up in Northern Maine, deep in the woods, when the tote road I was walking on was cut by a ditch. On the right was a Beaver pond and there was a post in the ground that indicated it was the Canadian Border. I jumped across the ditch for fun and jumped back into the US. I didn't know if anyone was watching. It was fun.

[@jasondashney]

You hit a beaver pond. There's no need for the sign. You're in Canada.

[@untermench3502]

@@jasondashney It was hard to tell otherwise. It was one of the few places in eastern Quebec that still had trees.

[@jasondashney]

@@untermench3502 those greedyass beavers have taken out all the trees?

[@untermench3502]

@@jasondashney Surprisingly, now that you mention it, there were plenty of trees there, actually my great grandfather was a lumber baron in Eastern Quebec. I think you could blame him more that the Beavers for de-foresting that part of Canada.

[@jasondashney]

@@untermench3502 Lumber baron?! That's easily the best ancestor flex I've heard in awhile.

[@jerry3579]

You guys left out the Haskell Library and Opera House in Derby Line, Vermont. There, Canadians and Americans can legally enter the library and opera house, and freely go back and forth across the border, which is indicated by a line through the library and upstairs through the opera house. Right now, though, because of COVID-19, the whole library is closed.

[@sErgEantaEgis12]

There's also Lake Memphremagog nearby, there's a dock at a place called Cedarville in Quebec where there's a phone you're supposed to use to call the actual customs agents.

[@marsgal42]

I’ve been to the Peace Arch park. You can wander around the park as much as you like, but there are fences and signs on the northern and southern edges that order you to report to Customs and Immigration if you want to go any further. In the winter the only open bathrooms are on the U.S. side, BTW.

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

Take a leak the *_'MURICAN WAY._*

[@pawpatrolnews]

The canadians have to pee their pants because the bathroom is in another country 🤣

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

@@pawpatrolnews Nope, they can walk around freely in the park. We can relieve ourselves the Canadian W-eh, and the Canadian's can do things like true *'MURICANS.*

[@tylsim]

There’s no fence on the northern edge where houses in BC are across the street, just a sign telling you to pick up dog poo. But there’s definitely a high tech facial recognition security system that tracks your entrance to the park and departure.

[@teamcoltra]

Small world! I love HAI videos, cool to see you outside of av forums :P Then again, this is HAI so it's basically just another airplane channel.

[@majorfallacy5926]

As a young EU citizen, the concept of border checkpoints irritates me in a weird way. I guess I'm used to it in airports, but I actually felt somewhat offended when they wanted to see my passport in between two eu countries once

[@violetraven9440]

i wish i could say the same taking a trip up north sounds like it would be fun when i got there but it would suck trying to cross

[@blakedavis2447]

That’s like needing a passport to get to Alaska or something

[@spaghettigum]

@@blakedavis2447 its more like needing a passport when entering and leaving a mcdonalds

[@PrezVeto]

Have you not left the EU?

[@majorfallacy5926]

@@PrezVeto who's "you"? Only the Brits left

[@rarelibra]

I used to live in Northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters area. We used to take our boats on Fall Lake, and portage across to Basswood Lake, which in on both sides of the US/Canadian border. All the time, we would cross into Canadian waters and be able to fish our hearts out, knowing that once we crossed back into the US, the Minnesota DNR would stop us and count our fish to make sure we weren't above the limit. There was an island on the Canadian side we would stop at and cook up fresh pan-fried fish.

[@ywoodstock]

the real question is how many people actually abide by those laws

[@eyesonherhorizon4753]

"American gasoline lovingly freed from oppression by the American military." Good one.

[@eyesonherhorizon4753]

@OceanBlue Except for healthcare.

[@Lawkeeper12]

And education

[@CBTalon97]

Except that, it in all likelihood the fuel as actually from Canadian sources.

[@DR-54]

@@Lawkeeper12 immediately your argument falls apart when free education is provided to everyone and we don't even have to commit genocide and oppress natives to do it!

[@TepigIsHot]

@@DR-54 hey, dumbass, he was agreeing with you

[@thebrownguy79]

I’m within 30 minutes from the Peace Arch crossing in Washington. Perhaps the best place to coordinate meet ups with relatives from both countries. Resident from both Blaine WA and White Rock/Surrey BC truly use the honor system at this crossing.

[@kellynolen498]

Yeah i remember when "refugees" fleeing from trump were causing problems im Canada other than that i dont remember any wave of Americans or Canadian crossing playing fast and loose with that border seems like a non issue

[@kellynolen498]

@Águila701 well its a shame but borders are necessary when alot of people wont to enter any country in mass

[@kellynolen498]

@Águila701 well sure but those us citizens got permission to settle by Spain 1821 then mexico gained independents that very same year but immigration was still encouraged and it wasn't till 1830 that it was immigration was prohibited(from the us) its not like there forced there way into Mexico or settled without permission

[@kellynolen498]

@Águila701 your right the settlers were in the moral wrong and they basically stole the land but how would the fence stop legal entry and cool down those were the acts or those that came before 190 years ago "you'll get yours" whats that mean i mean im either an amateur historian or an American is that enough for you to put the actions of some long dead person not even related my family came from Ireland and my other half Mexico i dont understand there are more productive people to be mad at

[@kellynolen498]

@Águila701 then you have two choices my friend make your country great or leave it behind you can motivate yourself however you want but lifes not fair and if you want it to be better you have to do it yourself and i see no reason to hold a grudge or expect karma to smite my enemies

[@kristenrdesinski2937]

There are so many cameras in Blaine around the border that if a person decided to leave the park area (Peace Arch) it would be recorded. Not to say it would be noticed right away, but would still be available for future viewing. The cameras are equipped with night vision and have caught quite a lot of drug trafficking where bags are simply tossed over the border to be picked up by another person. Before 9/11 it was so easy to cross between the countries, walking across to a nightclub right across on the Canadian side was not uncommon. You did have to check in with the border agent, but it was as simple as saying "I'm going to NightShift (an actual club in the 1990's less than a quarter mile from the Pacific/Truck crossing) for a couple of drinks" and there were no other questions asked. Going across the Peace Arch crossing in a car was also easy, border waits were quite short, unlike current times. Granted, the border has been closed to all but essential travel due to the pandemic, this has caused quite the economic hit to Whatcom County, Washington where I live.

[@thomassmith1080]

Hello Kristen. How are you doing?

[@KickMaassen]

Ough.. that civil war 2020 joke kinda feels controversial now...

[@chrischolewa9104]

thats no lie ! everyday i hear about problems into November-Pray !

[@Amariellah]

perhaps he is psychic

[@ixlnxs]

It will only get worse in January 2021, believe me...

[@nickhill8612]

@@ixlnxs Hey I absolutely believe you.

[@kylestanley7843]

@@nickhill8612 You were right to.

[@mxg75]

There's also Canusa Street / Rue Canusa in Derby, VT / Stansted, QC. The double yellow line marks the international border, with people living on the north side of the street being Canadian and those living on the south side of the street American. You're allowed to drive on the other side of the street to and from your home, provided you turn into your own country at the T intersection at the end of the street, but you're not allowed to go across the street to borrow a cup of sugar from your neighbor without checking in with customs first.

[@bxdanny]

Yes, there's another KZbin video that covers that. And, in the same town(s), the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, built right on the border. The entrance, IIRC, is on the American side, but Canadians are allowed to freely walk in from Canada, as long as they promptly return to Canada when they exit.

[@mischa7823]

@@bxdanny kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6DGe6Bpedesaqc Here is a video from Tom Scott about this (or another?) street.

[@ZanHecht]

You can borrow sugar from your neighbor if you both meet at the library for the handoff.

[@felixhurteau2630]

Canusa means Canada-USA for those who don't get it

[@Simonsvids]

What if your neighbour from the other country throws you a bag of sugar over the border, is that allowed?

[@aidandoerffer3750]

"lovingly freed from impression by the American military" *shows Canadian soldiers*

[@denelson83]

Oppression.

[@DocDarkLord666]

"Lovingly freed from oppression by America''s military" *looks at the dislike button to see how many people didn't like that one*

[@faithful2thecall]

Unless something changed since I visited there, you also omitted the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota. As long as you weren't planning to overnight in Canada you could cross the border without having to go through a crossing.

[@NotAmira_]

You'll never know what I said

[@Samuel_Rioux]

or out

[@Crankiebox99]

Kim Jong-un Heck ya

[@BritishEmpireForHisMajesty]

Samuel Rioux no one wants to leave best Korea

[@deddcuber3288]

only out

[@blankblank1949]

@@Samuel_Rioux There's some, but i can assure you they'll be executed for high treason against our Saviour and Dear Leader

[@benjaminmclaren8782]

Shoutout from Australia's border patrol. Just watch your step. It's a little wet.

[@timothycook2917]

I think I got that joke 😏

[@someguyontheinternet7]

Hey, I’m not looking to get locked up on Nauru 🖕🏾

[@shyryTsr2k]

Is border patrol even needed in Australia?😂

[@sammybeaver9130]

Another shout out to great britain's border patrol. Just watch your step, there is a big cliff and then straight into the sea

[@andrewnield9827]

Ashwin Umapathi don’t swim here come here legally

[@konradplatt3833]

Me living in Europa at a Border triangle: "Wait you guys have border controls?"

[@SanderEvers]

We also have borders in Europe, just go to the edge of the Schengen zone.

[@konradplatt3833]

@Mateusz Wojnarowicz dont forget swiss. But there are nearly no controls either. especially when you are a local. Sometimes the border is just across a field too with no border control anywhere near.

[@aryanbhuta3382]

@Mateusz Wojnarowicz They praise themselves because it is true. Sure, coming from Schengen, it may seem unimaginable. But the US-Canada border is still one of the most porous in the world. You can get in with an enhanced drivers license. A typical border is guarded (ie, with troops, guns, and military patrols)

[@ixlnxs]

I was just wondering what border triangle that would be, but we have so many... Even my native little Belgium has three: with the Netherlands and Germany, with Germany and Luxembourg, and with Luxembourg and France. Not to mention that we have a functioning British border post at the railway station of Brussel-Zuid (Brussels south) to hop on a high-speed train to London.

[@seanwilkinson8696]

I love that three-point border-convergence...point...somewhere in rural Europe (shame on me for not remembering), where they have a round, concrete picnic table that's been painted with flags and boundary lines and appropriately positioned on the correct spot. With two friends and three six-packs of your nations' brews and snacks, an afternoon of fun border-hopping and frivolity is guaranteed.

[@supergeek1418]

You missed Glacier National Park/Boundary Park a large wilderness area/park. Your'e free to roam, as long as you exit on the same side you entered, otherwise, you're expected to go to a border checkpoint.

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

It should be illegal for people to sneak into my woods

[@alinasiddiqui2369]

Or my swamp

[@manlikemb6226]

Alina Squidwiki not funny

[@Crankiebox99]

Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access our woods*

[@bingbonghafu]

Bigfoot gets no voting rights

[@xxlookalive239x3]

Wassup mate we meet again but not on a reddit vid this time haha

[@aaron_xdd705]

While watching this, I'm happy to be from Europe without any borders and immigration stuff

[@martijn9568]

@@skyem5250 there's this thing called boats.

[@danielgstoehl3905]

@@skyem5250 Not anymore. This was done during WW2 and the cold war but it is being inventorized and removed.

[@howardbaxter2514]

Martijn that’s also much slower than walking or driving across a bridge

[@sleeptyper]

@@Only.D.G. Some people prefer to keep the curtain in front their eyes closed.

[@bgezal]

Schengen area is like crossing federal state borders in US or Canada. Try crossing from Schengen/EU into Russia.

[@dianap5504]

I was born and raised in the Detroit, MI area, which shares a border with Ontario, Canada. Just northeast of Detroit, there is a river called the St. Clair River, which is 40 miles long, and at its narrowest point, is only about 800 feet wide. The US/Canadian border runs right down the middle of the river, and the current isn’t very strong. It is a bustling river, as it connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron. You will see everything from fishing boats to freighters, to people on jet skis/wave runners moving through there. There are residential houses right on the edge of the river on both sides, and it used to be SO EASY to park your wave runner or other small vessel on the Canadian side, walk into Canada, and go completely unnoticed. In the hours when the river wasn’t busy, people used to swim across it all the time (for me and my teenage friends, it was just for the thrill-seeking novelty of it). In the oft chance you were stopped by border patrol, you just played dumb and said you were sorry, and they would politely tell you to head back to your own country. 🤣🤣🤣This was back in the 80s/90s before drones and 9/11. Even at the official border crossings, all you did was show your ID (no passports!) and all they would ask you is what you were planning to do during your visit and how long you planned to stay. It was seriously no big deal to go back and forth, and it was something my friends and I did every weekend when we turned 19, since that’s the legal drinking age in Canada. Boy have things changed! Anyway, thanks for a very interesting video! I greatly enjoyed it.

[@thomassmith1080]

Hello Diana. How are you doing?

[@comidamexicanasinsabor_]

I’ve been to the Peace Arch Provincial Park and as a person who sees the US/México border fence almost everyday, roaming around that park was absolutely one of the best things I’ve ever done in my entire life and Peace Arch will always be my favourite

[@chaimf1974]

Surprised you didn't mention Alaska. They have a town that you can enter from Canada without any border control.

[@reillywalker195]

Yep. That's Hyder, a town of fewer than 90 people across the border with two land crossings into the relatively much larger town of Stewart. I've been there twice and have found it strange how people in the two towns are so different from each other.

[@casey6556]

You didn't even mention Hyder, Alaska, which came up in one of your own previous videos! Nor the library and theatre on the border that has doors on both sides.

[@reillywalker195]

The Stewart/Hyder situation is almost hilarious. He really should cover it in greater detail.

[@RogersMgmtGroup]

Hyder is weird. There is no US immigration, and the only place to drive beyond Hyder is back into another part of Canada. There is however a Canadian border post facing Hyder and people occasionally get stuck in little Hyder without proper visas or documents to reenter Canada (according to the Canadian guard). Of course the border is not staffed 24/7 either so... maybe people just cross back.

[@reillywalker195]

@@RogersMgmtGroup If you can prove you're Canadian, the border guards ultimately have to let you back in. It's still better to have a passport or enhanced driver's licence, though, just to save time and headaches. As for the border closure at night, you're allowed to cross back over but technically supposed to self report; I believe there's an explanation of how to do that plastered somewhere on the outside of the customs office.

[@joncalon7508]

Scrolled through all the comments just to see if this one was mentioned. So Mr. Wendover, why did you omit Hyder?

[@billsmart2726]

@@reillywalker195 so, what about the US side? If anyone comes from the US side or wants to go from Canada to the US?

[@Cyborg617]

2:43 well, the comment with an american civil war didn't age that well. Or did it? I don't know anymore...

[@ixlnxs]

Wait till January 2021 for the shit to really hit the fan...

[@meri-lynncollingridge7933]

My dad and I were going on a drive in Manitoba just for the sake of driving and we turned onto a random gravel unknowingly crossed the border into the US. I found out we were in the states when I got a text message from Telus saying something along the lines of welcome to the United States. I found it cool that we accidentally crossed the border and didn’t run into an official border crossing station with guards

[@thomassmith1080]

Hello Meri. How are you doing?

[@griffca4814]

"Saint Regis Mohawk Reservation" I grew up near there and the best job for someone who just turned 16 was helping the Mohawks smuggle cigarettes to Ottawa, Quebec and NYC. It was great.

[@canadianpatriot14]

So, if someone was looking to enter the States that didn't have a passport this would be a good place? Asking for a friend.

[@monicawg]

No it's not. The information in the video is not correct. Your car will be impounded in addition to heafty fines and a list of other legal battles both in US and Canadian Court systems. Also, there are numerous policing agencies. There are NYS police, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal police, Akwesasne Mohawk police as well as Border patrol. Land and water surveillance and patrols for all agencies involved.

[@kalithuania]

Stop stereotyping them

[@denverfleury4542]

I'm 15 and got high asf at my friends older brothers house when I was 13 and me and the boys decided it would be smart to "go for a hike" to the usa illegally and we did not get caught bought some ice cream and came back no trouble at all

[@blakedavis2447]

Oh your big big trouble now mister I hope you know it’s gonna be a stain on your pride as Canadian don’t cha know breakin the law being illegal an what not

[@denverfleury4542]

@@blakedavis2447 bad ideas tell good stories

[@blakedavis2447]

@@denverfleury4542 lmao it’s a joke

[@denverfleury4542]

@@blakedavis2447 I know lmao

[@blakedavis2447]

@@denverfleury4542 LAMO !

[@arnavg7973]

Hey mom, can I go to my friends place Mom-where Me- Oh you know, Canada

[@someonesomewhere9133]

There is absolutely no need to have any kind of border control or check points between the US and Canada. Both are super friendly, well developed and prosperous nations with similar laws. One can be reasonably certain that either country would screen people coming in from overseas quite well. Learn from Europe, Why not have a free travel area which would remove the hassles and boost trade and tourism.

[@void_tex]

No. If you know anything about the two countries, we fucking hate each other

[@denverdubois5835]

@@void_texOnly on 4chan.

[@denverdubois5835]

Maybe when Canada trades in that globalist trash PM we can be friends again. I miss going to Canada.

[@konstm.s.236]

Americans and Canadians: Oh man another border check point... Me: *laughs in Schengen Area*

[@lajya01]

"Another?" There is only 1 in your whole trip and that's it. We don't switch countries every 100 km like in Europe.

[@edipires15]

Me: laughs in Schengen itself

[@konstm.s.236]

lajya01 the another is referencing the topic of the video

[@paranoidrodent]

Prior to 2001, it was normal to cross the US-Canada border without a passport if you were travelling by land. Just a driver's license was enough in either direction and travel between the two countries was extremely common (Canadians crossing to shop, American college kids crossing to party, lots of tourists in both directions). A day trip into a bordering state or province was pretty everyday. Now it's kind of a pain in the butt by comparison and the delays at the border are far longer. Even so, the border crossings are generally fine. Some folks even commute across the border every day to go to work (esp. between Windsor and Detroit). All that said, as someone else commented, you do realize both countries are freaking enormous (each dwarfs the Schengen Area in size) and border checkpoints aren't really something the residents of either country ever tend to deal with much unless they are intentionally going to the other country? You can drive for days and never see a border, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

[@skorpius752]

What sucks is when you drive within your own country and you still have to go through stupid border patrol checkpoints.

[@joeclark1893]

There’s also the Haskell Free Library and Opera House where actors perform in Canada while the audience watches in America.

[@ralphvelthuis2359]

You also have the waterton/glacier international peace park, where you take the boat tour starting in Canada, cross over into the US on the other half of the lake, and then back into Canada to dock again.

[@jackuzi8252]

There's another: The Haskell Library/Opera House in Derby Line, VT. It was intentionally built straddling the border. There's a line through the middle of it, so as long as you don't leave the building you can technically go into Canada and back. If you go outside and walk around the corner, though, the librarian told me you're legally obligated to continue on to the Canadian customs point and check in.

[@sitrilko]

A whole video about US and Canada and borders and crossing... and no planes. Did an imposter take over the channel?

[@emmanities2450]

Check out the recent Wendover video.

[@claytong2069]

THE IMPOSTER IS RED

[@hannahjames7458]

Vermont/Quebec Haskell free library

[@jasonbrandonhill]

Yes! That place deserves a video of its own.

[@steveroyer1628]

can't believe they didn't mention it. Entrance is in US, books are in Canada. Scene of the theatre upstairs is in Canada, but the seats are in US.

[@tcg1_qc]

@@steveroyer1628 what? Do you need a passport to enter?

[@steveroyer1628]

@@tcg1_qc to enter the library? No!

[@steveroyer1628]

@@jasonbrandonhill kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipjQdXqjlJ2LqJI

[@stev6963]

Just when I thought I’ve seen every HAI video there is, an old new one pops up in my feed and I am left even more impressed by this channel’s output than I was yesterday.

[@pshindigamingmobilegamer2609]

Yeah

[@normanduchaine61]

My great aunt lives in Estcourt ME/ Pohénégamook QC, her property is split in half through the border! It was fun seeing this video, in reality getting to the gas station is not so complicated, and Canadian Border Services is very close by.

[@thomassmith1080]

Hello Norman. How are you doing?

[@______608]

HAI: You need a clean record for politics Indian Politicians: Hold my beer

[@timothycook2917]

Are you saying Indian politicians aren't squeaky clean? 😊

[@shyryTsr2k]

@@timothycook2917 that smile is concerning

[@foolishgruntigluana7041]

Here criminals r the ones who become 50% of the politicians(serious criminals like murderers, kidnapping, rapist, dons,gun violations, spreading hate, etc) and educated people do the job things. Jails r the recreational spots for the criminals who go there for a few hours or days and come out.

[@vinhetasdatv8611]

Brazilian politics: Hold my caipirinha

[@Minisculev2115]

My friend lived up in Maine, and apparently the border guards there were so kind they would sometimes just let people casually to Canada and vice versa. Of course it wasn't permanent, you eventually had to go back to the states but it was mostly to just grab a bite at a Canadian shop or something

[@korytoombs886]

Unless you're going into the USA for a long period of time, reporting to immigration shouldn't be required.

[@seigneurduquebec7337]

It used to be like that, everything changed on 9/11 :(

[@MoonlightFoxTV]

it's weird hearing his voice today compared to his early Wendover vids. Almost the same tone and vocal pacing at a different level.

[@joeolmond4252]

There's a small town in Alaska called Hyder that has Canadian customs but no US customs

[@joeolmond4252]

Thank you random strangers The only reason I know about hyder is because me and my dad got stuck in

[@blakedavis2447]

How do you get out then ?

[@joeolmond4252]

@@blakedavis2447 you need a passport to get in so I gues it’s just assumed you have one.

[@rockerjim8045]

Had a great day trip from New Hasilton BC. We saw our first Grizzly

[@crypticcorgi8280]

We just don't expect Canadians up that far. We know they like to hug our boarder for warmth.

[@3rdalbum]

Reminds me a little of the border between the states of Victoria and Tasmania, in Australia. Tasmania is an island, so there shouldn't be a land border, but after the sea border was drawn it was discovered to bisect a small island. Victoria and Tasmania now have a 500m common land border on an uninhabited island.

[@RedlineGuiding]

The Fourth Connecticut Lake Trail, a short hiking trail in Pittsburg, NH , weaves its way from country to country along the US/Canadian "swath". It's kinda cool, and very pretty.

[@conroyfan22official]

I live near the St Regis Mohawk reservation...The first time I accidentally ended up in Canada, it confused the crap out of me. I was driving through the rez, and all of a sudden the speed limit switched from 30 (mph) to 60 (kmh) and the signs were in French. It definitely threw me for a loop.

[@billsmart2726]

There was no checkpoint there to prevent you from entering?

[@antoniozavaldski]

@@billsmart2726 There's no checkpoints within the reservation.

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

You have now entered France.

[@inconnu4961]

@@TheCaptainSplatter LMAO/MDR! Vive La France libre!

[@summersbythesea4261]

it's 5am and I lost it when the stock footage of 'murder' played for the second time. love your sense of humor, Sam.

[@graham1034]

If you hike the Pacific Crest Trail as a Canadian then you can cross freely back into Canada on the trail. The only requirement is that you fill out a form online before you leave for your hike, usually 4 or so months beforehand. You don't even have to provide a date, just a vague range of a month or 2 when you plan on crossing back into Canada.

[@juangonzalez9848]

Monument portage in the boundary waters is a zig zag path up a hill. As you go up it goes back and forth from the Canadian to American sides of the line. Always a fun trip, tiptoeing across the line during the whole covid mega lockdown was fun, one of the few Americans that got into Canada that year.

[@thomassmith1080]

Hello Juan. How are you doing?

[@uverhaul]

Damn, youtube’s new system for showing subs is in effect huh.. “1.08 million”

[@MissCracker]

Literally no one cares

[@mr.boomguy]

It confused the hell out of me at first...

[@uverhaul]

Mr. Boomguy yeah, it’s kinda annoying really

[@meijelly]

@@MissCracker the 13 people who liked their comment apparently do

[@Ethan7s]

US government supervisor: hey I need a new border crossing policy, can you have it at my desk next week? US government employee: sure, let me check on brilliant real quick.

[@danepcarver4951]

Was visiting Waterton Lake National Park in Alberta in Sept 2007. I took the trail south and cross in Glacier National Park into Montana. At the border there was a sign that directed everyone must continue to the US Ranger Station that was about 5 miles further to present your passport which I was carrying. I hiked almost within site of the station, but couldn't cross a suspension bridge because the decking had been removed for the season. I hiked back north into Canada crossing the border twice without challenge.

[@thomassmith1080]

Hello Dane. How are you doing?

[@SimilakChild]

Easiest ways to do it (If you get caught by customs you will get deported): 1. Slip into Alaska somehow, and then book a cruise ship from there to California 2. Between Manitoba and North Dakota is nothing but trees and forest. you could basically walk through the forest and they wont know. 3. Jump inside a CN cargo train somewhere in Canada, they usually transport their goods into Washington or Idaho or those places, There is a youtuber named Shiey, he knows all the routes.

[@henryd.4802]

Hey HAI I think you forgot about Hyder, Alaska. which can only be accessed through Canada, there's no border control there and residents freely travel to the Canadian towns on the other side.

[@reillywalker195]

The situation with Hyder is actually more complicated than that. Hyder might not have a border guard, but the larger Canadian town of Stewart does, so anyone crossing into Stewart from Hyder has to pass through Canadian customs unless they're crossing into the northern part of Stewart where its mines and hydroelectric dam are located. Also, passengers on the twice weekly floatplane to Ketchikan from Hyder have to pass through customs, making it one of the few places where people need to pass through customs to travel within a country they're already located.

[@henryd.4802]

@@reillywalker195 huh I wasn't actually aware of that, thanks!

[@Kawber]

*the USA government wants to know your location*

[@starstencahl8985]

They always want to, that's nothing new :[

[@michelsfeir1127]

Kawber Why? This is just a video about bricks

[@alanivar2752]

Wendover: 'you can walk around, shop, do whatever you want' Locals, that know you'll likely get your shit kicked for being a non-native on the Res: go ahead, try it

[@nunyabiznez6381]

I once visited a reservation with my grandfather. There was a checkpoint and he was asked to state his business. He opened up his wallet to show the guy a stack of hundreds and said: "I'm a tourist and I'm hear to spend this." The guy let him through with a big smile.

[@alanivar2752]

@@nunyabiznez6381 Commercial =\= residential

[@BeReal918]

@@alanivar2752 $ = _options_

[@marcoroman3242]

Luckily I'm Mexican and I look native

[@marcberm]

There's also a library in Maine that straddles the border. It's legal to enter and spend time there from either side of the border, as long as you go back into the country from which you came when you leave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera_House

[@simonpotter7534]

One place you missed is Waterton Park in Alberta, where you can take a boat trip to the Southern end of Upper Waterton Lake crossing the US border and landing at the Peace Pavilion (which has the largest fire place I have ever seen). There is an ad hoc customs set up at the Goat Haunt Ranger Station (complete with unfriendly border people). I forget how it works but there is some sort of special arrangement that allows people to cross the border into the Glacier National Park.

[@romaa3985]

Low cost university education? This is Canada not Europe fam, its just as expensive lol

[@reillywalker195]

It's definitely nowhere near free, but it's cheaper to go to university in Canada than in the United States. It's so much cheaper that American students will go as far north as Prince George and Terrace to attend UNBC rather than stay close to home.

[@paranoidrodent]

Canadian here and I looked into the price of university in the US when some US schools offered me admission after I did well on some standardized tests. Higher education is far cheaper in Canada. No, it's not Europe levels of cheap or free but it's definitely partially subsidized. We have American students coming here to study because even our international student rates at good schools are cheaper than what they pay back home for a similar education.

[@alpearson9158]

no! no where near as expensive as the US

[@tabel4844]

Point Roberts, WA also has a strange boarder with Canada. If you don't take a ferry, you have to drive through Canada to get to the US.

[@quentonsmith6085]

“The places where border sneaking is legal” “Crossing these borders is illegal” wat

[@lourencovieira5424]

Oh I needed this, thanks!

[@rockthered8706]

As a Canadian, I love this. I knew we had a few border oddities, had no idea about the international parks, those are now on my bucket list for my eventual cross country trip.

[@reillywalker195]

He missed the strangest border oddity, which is that between the port town of Stewart, British Columbia, and the nearly abandoned town of Hyder, Alaska. That's an almost hilarious border.

[@casey6556]

Another one you missed: the Pacific Crest Trail. If you file the right paperwork, it’s legal to hike the trail (which is something like 30 miles from the nearest road on the US side and a fair bit from the nearest road on the Canadian side) across the border, though I believe you’re expected to then submit to a border station for inspection once you’ve finished your hike and there is no ability to cross back into the US on the trail.

[@alyssa2796]

I live about an hour away from the Peace arch on the American side and it was so fascinating going there because I thought that we would have to do some sort of border checkpoint or there would be guards or gates but you just walk in and walk around and then leave whenever you want

[@gordonou7065]

There’s a boat ride that goes in and out of the both countries in Niagara Falls so Canadians go on a boat into and out of the US and the US got in and out of Canada. IDK if it counts because It’s on water.

[@BrianRyans]

You talking about Maid of the Mist and/or Hornblower?

[@reillywalker195]

You forgot about the Stewart/Hyder border between Alaska and British Columbia. I know you mentioned it in an earlier video and probably didn't cover it for that reason and because it's not between Canada and the Lower 48, but it's still notable. Due to how Hyder borders Stewart, the road to the mines and the glacier viewpoint in Stewart's municipal limits cuts through Hyder and back into Stewart. There's no American border guard at either crossing, and there's no Canadian border guard at the northern crossing going up to the mines, so it's possible for someone in either country to cross into the other without passing through the other country's customs.

[@spartacus3250]

Hyder, AK is one you could of added to this list, you can enter the town by crossing the border with no border security since there is no way to get anywhere else in Alaska there but you have to check in with the Canadian border police when you leave on the only road in or out

[@DamirMaatar]

2:34 there is quite the same thing in the Netherlands/Belgium borders. There is houses that are on 2 countries. But they decided that where the door is, is the country of the house There is a guy that moved his door 1 meter to be on the other border, and pay less taxes

[@ReiDaTecnologia]

Genius!

[@inconnu4961]

Thats my kind of guy!

[@lildevil362003]

You forgot the Waterton-Glacier park in Alberta/Montana, where there's a hike you can just stroll right through.

[@medymoreno8778]

hi, they are no office no control for the hiker?

[@HTPCYMC]

For Solid Snake this counts for the entire border. He has completely maxed out his sneak skill

[@Zeyev]

I was at the International Peace Garden last summer in Manitoba/North Dakota to visit a friend who came down from Boissevain while I had come up from Minot. Although the gift shop is on the American side, the cashiers have two registers so they can accept payment in either currency. To make it easy the prices are the same. That's also true for the entrance fee which is twenty dollars in either currency. I used a Canadian bill to enter. Although I had not crossed through Canadian border control, I did have to report to USA border control when I left the park and present my passport to get back to the USA.

[@chim1999]

2:06 as a soldier in the Canadian Army I can confirm that hilariously in the clip to punctuation the military liberty of a gas station, HAI uses a clip in which The soldiers are Canadian on a joint training exercise in the US which is only a minor detail but has me in stiches

[@aletoledo1]

It's almost like these are just imaginary lines on a map.

[@thomas.02]

some borders follow natural formations like rivers, others....

[@aletoledo1]

@@thomas.02I have a river behind my house, maybe it's a border

[@MissCracker]

They are......

[@Abdega]

aletoledo1 That river could be a border between your property and your neighbor’s. Or not, your property could also be divided by imaginary lines idk

[@Buildnstack]

Just like private property.

[@leracer]

The Escourt border crossing, and it's US side Gulf gas station, has been closed for some time. I was there just last week (And by now it is also known as Pohenegamook as 3 towns merged many years ago).