Why You Don’t Want To Live On the US-Canada Border 

As a resident of Point Roberts I would like to remind you that we don't HAVE to drive to get to mainland USA. We can take boats across the bay and do quite frequently. Many of us keep a car on both sides for this exact purpose.

What's even crazier is that Point Roberts only has an elementary school. So for children grades 4 and up they would have to take a bus though British Columbia and into the mainland Washington State. But that also means during the pandemic this couldn't happen.

I live in the border region (currently on the Canadian side but used to live on the US side). It's not as good as the pre-9/11 days but it is not nearly so bad as it was during the height of the pandemic. No COVID tests required if you are fully vaccinated. It was annoying in the extreme not to be able to visit friends that were only a short drive away. Sometimes I forget that for most people, international travel is a big deal and not just a casual day trip.

When I was a kid, pre-9/11, you didn't need a passport to travel by car between Canada and the US. And not just at border towns, but... anywhere. It's really hard to explain to people who didn't grow up with it how EXTREMELY open the Canada / US border used to be.

I used to live in a border town between New Brunswick and Maine and my favourite memories to share with people is how I would cross the border on my bike with my passport and I essentially had 25 hours to my day as once I crossed the border I was in a different time zone. I'd leave one job at 5pm, ride my bike for a half hour across an international border, and start at my 2nd job at 5pm. Which was 6pm on the other side of the border.

Coutts and Sweetgrass exist specifically because the border exists. Coutts is the port of exit for all the beef, canola oil, crude petroleum, modified milk ingredients, and grains (especially barley for beer) imported into the US from Alberta, and Sweetgrass is the port of exit for all the fruit and winter vegetables imported into Alberta from the US. I would say "imported into Montana", except that there are fewer people in all of Montana than in Calgary alone.

USA should have agreed to this: “The British Foreign Office instructed Captain James Prevost, the British Boundary Commissioner, to inform his U.S. counterpart of the situation and request Point Roberts be left to Britain, because of the great inconvenience it would be to the United States. If the American Boundary Commission was reluctant, Prevost was instructed to offer ”some equivalent compensation by a slight alteration of the Line of Boundary on the Mainland“. It is not known how the U.S. commissioner responded, but Point Roberts remained part of the United States.” - Wikipedia.

BTW, add "Sault Ste. Marie" to your mispronounced bucket. It's silly, but most people (including almost all locals) pronounce the town like "Soo Saint Marie," as read in English. So "Sault" sounds like "Sue" and "Sioux." And "Ste," which is the French abbreviation for "sainte," is pronounced like the English word "saint." But "Marie" is pronounced as you would expect, not like the English name "Mary." Just to keep you on your toes. EDIT: Also, "Sumas, WA" is pronounced like "SOO-mas," not like "SUM-as." You can go there to get some as, but you don't pronounce the city that way. EDIT2: I think "Derby Line" is also pronounced like "Darby Line."

Seen from Europe... I live in Eastern Belgium, a 20-minute drive away to the borders with both Luxembourg and Germany, and the French border is an-hour drive away. As we have no more border or customs checks within the EU a/o Schengen Zone (and same currency), for me crossing into any of these countries, for leisure or for shopping, is so "normal life" that I sometimes don't really pay attention to which country I'm in. Having to go thru border checks each time I change country would be both annoying and weird.

CGP Grey called the treeless Canada-US border the "No Touching Zone". Still one of my favorite videos to this day.

As a Pacific Northwest resident, while point roberts is in a odd position, it's important to point out that, culturally, the entire PNW is far more connected to BC Canada than it is with the rest of the US. The same applies to BC, it's more connected to Washington and Oregon than it is the rest of Canada. As it turns out, the PNW is extremely secluded and far away from the rest of NA.

FYI, it's pronounced Soo St. Marie, hence why the boat locks are named the Soo Locks.

Another interesting place is Angle Inlet, MN, which was also affected by COVID pretty badly. Even when the borders partially reopened, you needed a negative COVID test to cross but Angle Inlet is so small, it doesn't even have a hospital, let alone a lab to run tests.

For your future correction video: Sault is pronounced as "Soo/Sue/Sioux" for the respective cities on the locks

This was more of a Mini-Wendover than a Half As Interesting. I, a Brit, went to Point Roberts in the summer of 2019. It was easy enough to get in back then, just pay seven dollars for the visa waiver and off you went. I found it a rather weird place which is good as I like visiting weird places. Whilst the border crossing was a busy place, there didn’t appear to be anything stopping the locals from walking along the beach to reach Canadian or American territory. Indeed, some houses on the Canadian side appeared to have gardens that abutted the border with nothing to stop their owners from stepping in to US land. I have a picture of me leaning against a wall which meant my arm was in Canada, the rest of me in the USA.

Add to your list Hyder, Alaska (pop 87), and Stewart, British Columbia (pop about 500). Stewart is incredibly remote, making Hyder even moreso, though there is apparently a floatplane delivering mail twice a week.

You missed one! (And maybe your sources did too?) Akwesasne NY/ON is a really interesting one, it actually has a fairly long stretch of land between the checkpoints for the 2 borders, and in one sense belongs to the Mohawk nation rather than to either of the 2 countries. It also has a Canadian exclave on a peninsula for the same reason - straight border lines don't leave much room for natural shapes. The border enforcement there has been very strict in recent years, it really sucks for the people in the community. I just drive through on my way to see my family though. Also nice to see Fort Blunder mentioned, that's right near where I grew up!

As a Canadian born and raised in Metro Vancouver I can honestly state Point Roberts is the weirdest place ever. I usually go to Tsawwassen to wave at Americans and have some conversations (obviously on our side of the border). Also funny how the most expensive place in Canada the metro Vancouver lower mainland is right across the cheapest housing market in the Northwest USA. Just a little under 1 Million starting price for a single bed condo in Downtown Vancouver yet down there it’s 200,000. Want a home? It’s over a million at least. Absolutely insane.

Sault is pronounced “soo” because anglophones find French to be an enigma.

Several times throughout the video your border in Washington is wrong, you've got the San Juan Islands (and Whidbey Island at a couple points) on the wrong side of the line. The border doesn't trace Puget Sound since that's all defined as Internal Waters, and even then it's less than 12 NM wide and would be contained entirely within the Territorial Sea. The border goes around the San Juan Islands (which are in Washington) before cutting south of Vancouver Island (Canada) and down the Straight of Juan de Fuca. We literally fought a "war" over this (The Pig War in 1859). Granted the only casualties were some potatoes and a pig, but it did ultimately lead to the establishment of that section of the border.

My grandparents live in Tsawassen and back when I was a kid my grandpa would launch his boat in Point Roberts as it was the closest public launch to their house (plus the bonus of cheaper gas). Back then when we crossed the border the guards cared more about the boat and the fish we caught than us.

there was a story in recent years about families of people who aren't allowed to enter the US visit a library in one such town where the building's back door opens in Canada and families can briefly unite inside. And of course the story ended with the US working to stop these meetings.

You forgot Northwest Angle above Minnesota in Canada territory.

As a Michigander, I almost had a heart attack when I heard you pronounce SSM incorrectly lol

As a Canadian, I'd like to thank you for ceding us all the wonderful San Juan Islands formerly of Washington state, as well as all the bays and estuaries of its coastal mainland. We would have been more than happy with just Point Roberts. Oh, and Sumas, like Sault Ste Marie, is also pronounced with a soo (rhymes with zoo). Soo-mass, not some-ass.

Point Roberts is a favourite location for the American witness protection program to relocate witnesses to. The only way someone from the US looking for the witness can get there is either by crossing an international border twice, or by taking a boat there, either of which increases their chances of being noticed and stopped (especially if they have a criminal record) and leaves more of a trail of evidence behind than if they were able to just drive there unimpeded.

The same thing happens over here on the East Coast. I'm from New Brunswick ( I know most Canadians don't even know where that is despite our country only having 10 provinces to remember). Campobello Island is owned by Canada. FDR had a summer cottage there, so Maine built the FDR bridge on the US side. There are also 3 tiny Seal Islands that are contested and US fishermen use them as an excuse to fish in Canadian waters during the season. We have FN communities that cross the border and some of the largest employers/landowning companies in both NB and Maine. Closing the border caused a bunch of drama for those of us living on this side of both countries too.

As someone who lives on the border, I must say life couldn't be better. City is empty, no neighbors, no people coming and going... life is great

Every Anglophone country when drawing a border Straight Line? Straight Line.

You can also fly into the grass airstrip at Pt. Roberts has as well. That's something that i used to do working for San Juan Airlines.

Your video brought back some really great memories. I was raised on the US/Canada border of Youngstown, New York, and Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario, with only the slim line of the Lower Niagara River in between the two. For young boaters with their own dingys or row boats the border was no problem. We left the NY side and 15 minutes later tied up on the Canadian one. Customs was almost non-existent. After 9/11, when I came back to visit my hometown, I could not enter Canada without a passport. I completely sympathize with the much greater problems faced by my west coast cousins! Still, what "border" memories I have of those simpler times!

As a former resident of Vancouver and semi-frequent visitor to Point Roberts, a few corrections: - The T in Tsawwassen isn’t silent (it’s “Tuh-wassen”) - Sault Ste. Marie, ON is pronounced “Soo Saint Marie” - Sumas, BC is pronounced “Soo-mass” - The passenger ferry to Point Roberts wasn’t for tourists. It was primarily for Point Roberts residents who needed to get out of Point Roberts for medical appointments, work, shopping, and other essential purposes. Tourists were actually asked to stay away to make sure there was capacity for locals. There was (and still is) also airline service between Bellingham and a grass airstrip in Point Roberts for those wanting a quicker trip and/or visiting and not wanting to use ferry capacity.

I don't understand why Point Roberts can't use a ferry, it seems like it would solve all its problems

The first "S" in "Tsawwassen" is silent. Canadians, particularly those in Vancouver, LOVE Point Roberts, because we can order domestic shipments like Amazon orders from the USA, and have them shipped there, and cross the border to pick them up and save a bundle on shipping. I do it all the time :)

I work for a freight company in the Northwest, and we deal with five "island" carriers in the Puget Sound area -- Vashon (Island) Trucking, Friday Harbor Freight (San Juan Island), Orcas Island Freight, Lopez (Island) Freight, and Point Roberts Auto Freight. Because Point Roberts might as well be an island, even if you can drive there, nobody else is going to do it. ^_^

1:34 where’s the great lakes Sam?? Looking forward too Part 6 of mistakes

I'm still convinced that Vancouver BC is named after Vancouver WA... because they missed us when the border got drawn 😅

The border at Point Roberts is shown correctly on the map in the video, but the border through the Strait of Georgia is hilariously wrong. On the other hand, against all odds, Sam pronounced "Tsawwassen" correctly, so I guess it evens out.

Something interesting to add... until 1985, Pt. Roberts was serviced by BC Tel; until 2019 they were served by Delta Cable (a Canadian Company). The US and Canada made a huge mistake by tightening the borders between their countries, and instead should have worked together to secure access to the continent. It would have been a lot cheaper in the long run, and would have actually been a meaningful change, instead of the placebo that the current restrictions represent.

An interesting followup video could be about the flooding that happened last fall that caused massive damage to Abbotsford and Sumas "Sue-mas," and the surrounding areas. Just an interesting topic due to the flooding affecting two countries.

Listening to your pronunciation of "Sault St. Marie" was brutal. Hoping it makes it into your next correction video

Point Roberts has always been a handy place for residents of Greater Vancouver to get cheaper gas and receive parcels in their P.O. boxes. Hopefully the border becomes less encumbered soon. Crossing used to be much simpler before 9/11. The Haskell Free Library (Derby Line, VT and Stanstead QC) is a great place to visit if you ever get the chance. One of the few places you can personally straddle the border, and the formal crossings within town are some of the least built-up you will ever see.

North Michigander here, hey Sam, love your videos 😊 Sault St Marie is pronounced like Soo Saint Marie. We’re sneaky like that 😂

Imagine not being in the Schengen Area and caring about borders

Sumas is pronounced Sue-Mass. Always love these videos about Point Roberts and other towns that are similar to it!

Episode idea, why British Columbia high school plays NFL rules and not CFL rules football.

It is rumored that many folks in witness protection are in Point Roberts, since you need to cross two international boarders to get there from the US.

I can remember when travelling to the US was very easy, you just drove. At the border, they simply asked what you're up to. But back in the '90s, things started to change. It was no longer simply a matter of showing your ID, stating your business, and off you go. I was driving cab in '92, and one of our contracts was with Burlington Northern, where we would pick up the twice daily dispatches from New Westminster and take them to Burlington. I did that once, and never again. When I got to the border in my cab, I was pulled aside and given the fifth degree while my cab was searched. Finally, after 45 minutes, I was allowed to complete my fair (not getting paid for the time delay). Then crossing back into Canada, I once again had to go through 20 minutes of questioning. And this is all on the background of cabs from our company doing this twice a day, and had been doing it for years. Shortly thereafter, the cab company stopped the service because of too many complaints from the drives not getting paid in accordance with the time it took. Since then, I have only gone across to the US twice more. Once before 9/11 and once after. The time before was a gong show at US customs. The time after went fairly smoothly, but I had gotten my passport prior to going south, and that seemed to be the key. The moral of this story is that before 9/11 the US customs was getting harder to deal wth for reasons I cannot explain. In the '70s and early '80s it was a piece of cake, by the '90s it was a growing chore. Noticebly, my cousins who had summer property in Point Roberts all sold out around this time.

Yes. Living on some piece of barbed wire fence might be a bad idea.

It's jokes like "barrel enthusiasts" that make me love this channel

A very good friend of mine was born an American in 1928. He didn't finish high school, moved to Canada and got a job with Chrysler, which had factories in Detroit and across the border in Windsor. His job was a messenger and crossed the border many times a day. The border agent greeted him by first name and let him travel freely until his 18th birthday. He tried to cross the border like he always did, then the border agent grabbed his arm and told him to register for the draft. He soon joined the army and was sent to Japan as a medic, where the army was staging soldiers for the operations in Korea. So the border agents do pay attention to who comes and goes.

You can also tell you have only read some of those names. "Sault" in Sault Ste Marie is pronounced "Soo". It is of French origin, and as with many French words the final consonant(s) are silent.

I actually went to Point Roberts like 4 months ago to pick up a package cause it was cheaper than shipping it up across the border and it is the strangest place I've ever been. I barely saw anyone, most of the houses I saw were currently empty vacation homes it seems, they had 1 grocery store that looked like you'd get murdered in it, 1 restaurant that was closed the day I went in and like 4 different parcel services and 8 gas stations or something like that. At this point the main draw as I see it for point roberts is as a cheaper alternative for Vancouverites and others in the GVA to get expensive packages shipped to them as well as sometimes get cheaper gas, especially if you live in Tsawwassen so the hop over the border is like a run to the store especially if you have nexus. Easily the strangest 4 hours of my life when I just popped in.

So what I heard is that Point Roberts should be part of Canada, I would be fine with that.

Escourt Station Maine has less than 10 people. It is the only place in U.S. with Quebec phone number. The gas station was shut down after U.S. and Canadian residents were driven out by the Patriot Act and the border stations being closed after 4pm.

It says "deparment" instead of "department" at 2:18.

0:03 as a resident of this area please never say sahwwassen again thanks, the s is silent not the t, you sound like someone who’s never been to Tsawwassen before

One of my best friends lives in Blaine, Washington (you mention it in the story). The view out of his front windows is of Canada. You missed the fact that while Point Roberts does have a Washington state elementary school, it does NOT have a middle or high school. So, the students from Point Roberts have to cross the US Canada border 4 times a DAY (Morning: US to Canada, then Canada to US, then reverse in the afternoon) Not only does this take well over an hour and a half each way, PLUS driving time, it essentially prevents Point Roberts students from participating in ANY after-school activities-one bus trip each way per day, period. And they can't get detention, as it would take their parents hours to go get them home. So they have to get up tremendously early, and get home late every day. There is also essentially no medical care in Point Roberts. Pre-pandemic, one RN lived there and helped US citizens. But when they needed a doctor, dentist, etc., they had to make the trip (over an hour) to the rest of Washington state to visit a doctor or hospital. In the summer, Point Roberts was primarily populated by wealthy and elderly Canadians, as the lower US taxes made it easier for them to purchase a summer home there. I think the US and Canada need to work out a way to make Point Roberts part of Canada. You would have to compensate the citizens for their holding and inconvenience of either becoming Canadians or of moving back to the mainland. The other locations are not as bad, as they are not physically separated from the rest of their country.

You didn't mention two other places. Roosevelt Island, New Brunswick which is part of Canada that you can only drive to other parts of Canada by crossing into Maine temporarily. And Hyder, in the extreme southeast of Alaska, that the only road leaving town crosses into Canada.

Hey, you may want to look at the pronunciation of some of the town you mentioned. Sault Saint Marie is "soo-saint-mahree", Sumas is "soo-mass", Derby Line is "Darby Line".

I drove down to point Robert's. What an odd but beautiful place

A little pronunciation aid for you Sam: Sault St. Marie is pronounced "Soo-saint Marie" (aka The Soo) at least in Canada. I have no idea how they pronounce it in Michigan.

@2:25 - I had to laugh several times on how the narrator mispronounces "Sault" in Sault Sainte Marie.

I grew up in Fort Erie, Ontario - being able to see the Marine Midland Building (in Buffalo, New York) from my doorstep. Back in the old days, as a teenager, I once cut class to walk across the Peace Bridge and catch a Pearl Jam concert. It was a different age! I must admit: during the COVID lockdown, I wondered how the town with the Haskell Library was dealing with things. Thanks for the info!

It's pronounced "sue st. Marie" not "Sault ST Marie" Next time say Mackinac in your video to drive us Michiganders and Canadians crazy also

The border near Vancouver is a bit off, the San juan islands are American territory. He must be salty that the brits left san juan island

A fun story, the old principle at Blaine High School was let go of because he was part of a drug ring that was smuggling weed across the border on elementary school busses. This was back in the early 2000’s.

I live on the Canada / US border - however it's heavily guarded and enforced over here. Also it's been at least 15 years + that we needed identifaction to cross.

It’s pronounced Sue St. Marie. “Sue” as in I will be forced to sue Sam if he doesn’t research his pronunciations. Or even worse, I might have to start calling him Simon Whistler. 😂

Huh, an HAI video that's more informative than funny. I thought I'd never see the day. A good video! Lots of things to think about. Borders can be very fascinating.

Wow. That was a good, and I mean a very good 6:40 long ad.

Sault is pronounced as "Soo" / "Su" not even close to Salt. Lol. The l and T are both silent letters that modify the diphthong "au". Sault \ ˈsü \ : a fall or rapid in a river.

What is also Half Interesting is that RU-vid allows advertising for Nebula

I have family living in Point Roberts, Tsawwassen, and Ladner and have been there hundreds of times. Some of your info is wrong. You can get there by boat or small plane, in addition to driving through Canada. And it's mostly a weekender community for Canadians. Also a place to get cheaper gas and pick up packages shipped there to avoid shipping them to Canada. We were there last in July 2022. Going into Canada does require filling out the ArriveCan app, but that's not a big deal. No COVID tests are required going either way. And Sumas, WA, is pronounced Soo-mas, not Suh-mas.

Sault in Sault Ste. Marie is pronounced "Soo." Locals and most from Michigan refer to it as "The Soo."

So some rather pedantic local nitpicking history. Modern day Abbotsford is actually a collection of smaller towns and villages that popped up in, for the most part, a century ago. The actual split community was a small neighborhood effectively called Huntingdon. Bonus history is that we have one of the closest international airports to a border crossing in the world, which made its initial construction for training pilots in WWII a contentious issue.

As someone who is now a part-time resident of Point Roberts, you've earned a hell of a "Well, ACTUALLY..." for this video. While COVID did do a number on Point Roberts, you've glossed over significant improvements that have happened in the past several months, including the Remote Border Community exemption as of early 2021 that provides for cross-border travel again... for residents, at least, which admittedly only solved half the problem. Removing testing requirements in April has made additional improvements, mostly for Canadians visiting the Point. The last major hiccup -- vaccination requirements for non-resident Americans to enter Canada -- is proving to be part bug and part feature, as Canada doesn't exactly see this as a problem. 🤷 Unlike the other border towns you mentioned in your video, Point Roberts has unique properties (and as a result been granted additional exceptions by the governments of both countries!) as a remote border community, more akin to the Northwest Angle or Hyder, Alaska. While failing to mention the Point at all would be a grave oversight in a video about the US/Canada border, there's enough unique about its status as a remote border community that using it as the focus of your video about everyone else's border issues makes most of your discussion about the Point itself a gross oversimplification, almost to the point of misinformation.

Wait until you tell the US government about Schengen and what options it provides

As a resident of Sault Ste Marie, it's pronounced 'Soo' Ste Marie. 2nd oldest settlement in the United States. They put the border between one city after the war of 1812. It's been here since the 1600s.

When I was a kid growing up in Michigan my parents used to go out to a Chinese place in Windsor, Ontario known as Peonies. All they did was ask why we were entering the other country and if we had anything with us, and then waved us through. Now they ask you these things and want to see an ID; Where's the problem? I have a US Passport and a US Passport card that allows me to go into Canada or Mexico without my actual passport. I see Port Roberts when I am flying into Vancouver and always thought it looked like a fascinating place, I didn't realize that it was such a hassle to show an ID in order to go to the grocery store and buy a six pack of Molsons.... In the US in the past when states lines were being laid out, they typically avoided "hanging areas". If you look at the northeast corner of Mississippi, you will see that there is a chunk lopped off and given to Alabama. This was done because of the river that runs through there. If the eastern state line of Mississippi had not been cut off this way, there would be a section of the state across the river. This poses a problem for criminality. You see, they would have either had to build a bridge across that river or build a police station for this tiny area. Otherwise, police would have to go out of their jurisdiction in order to answer calls in that area and the driving distance would be large. Organized crime would recognize this and set up shop there. Instead, they adjusted the eastern border of Mississippi slightly east and gave that notch at the top to Alabama and called it even.

Let’s be clear: this “problem” is all the making of the US. I had my Canadian sail boat at a Point Roberts marina before and after 9/11. Sailing sucked after that date. Gave up crossing the border long before COVID as the dignity factor had plummeted to sub-zero levels.

Border towns should be illegal. Honestly, look at the problems these two countries have caused for these residents. On top of that, I kinda feel like point Roberts should be a part of Canada. The fact that the US wants to keep such a small useless price of land is pathetic

Not going to lie, the US-Canadian border is one of the few things that make me genuinely upset at how stupid they are. Absolutely mind-boggling how US officials think they're necessary.

Point Robers has kept all the nature intact. Lots of lots of trees. In Delta, no trees.. lots of lots of houses..

The Lubec, Maine and Campobello Island, New Brunswick border were left out of this for some reason.

As someone living on a border city, I love it. Metro Buffalo includes Niagara Falls, NY/Niagara Falls, ON. While yes its more difficult to cross over the Niagara River, there are so many benefits of being on the border. I wouldn't trade it away for anything.

You forgot the northwest angle of Minnesota, we drive across a frozen lake to get there! Best walleye fishing in America.

I live in Sault Sainte Marie, MI, USA, and while COVID-19 slowed down the flow of Canadians and Americans across our bridge, it didn't stop it completely. With the testing requirements pretty much gone for people entering Canada, the International Bridge has seen record crossings this year. We thankfully do NOT need a passport to go from country to country thanks to Michigan's Enhanced Licenses, so as a person who FREQUENTS Sault Sainte Marie, ON, i can tell you its pretty simple. $4 each way on the American side, and a short wait at Customs. Yes 9/11 did make the cities a little more separated, but most people who live here have a Enhanced license or a passport, so crossing the border has really not been a whole lot different. And while a bunch of people have also pointed it out, Its "Soo Saint Marie". We still have a combined daytime population of well over 150,000 people, doubling if not tripling the American population thanks to Canadians and people traveling to the city for work. So I have to disagree, it still works quite well here, a few hoops to jump through.

One of my clients live on Point Roberts and I live in bellingham, so I have to make trips out that way all the time. So chill out there.

1:49 The border does not go down to Seattle. It goes south around Vancouver Island.

Don’t forget about the NW Angle, the northern most point in the contiguous US, where kids have to cross the border twice just to get to school.

First mistake of the year: Sault St. Marie is pronounced (at least by canadians) as SOO-saint Marie (like Sioux)

my grandma lives in point Roberts, and recently her car broke down and there is no car repair place in point Roberts. For some reason the only legal way to bring it across the border was to drive it or bring it on a flatbed truck. There were no flatbed trucks in point Roberts, and she couldn't get one in from Canada, so she couldn't fix it.

Has anyone thought about ferry service for the kids? It's only 9 miles from the Washington mainland. Yes, it would take just under an hour, one way. There are students elsewhere in rural America who ride that long on a bus.

Thanks for the Canadian content, eh! Really appreciate the metric conversions, though in Canada we write "metre" and "kilometre" because... French. ;) Also check out the Northwest Angle, the bit of Minnesota north of the 49th!

1:18 -- "Bolth" I guess we know what side of the border this was made.

The Sault Saint Marie Greyhounds hockey team’s logo has “Soo Greyhounds” written on it.

Glad that ketchup flavored chips were mentioned cause that was the best thing about the one time I went to Canada when I was younger.

The “secured” border stuff is ridiculous. It makes life crappy for millions, is ridiculously expensive, and does absolutely nothing to increase anyone’s security.

As someone who lives in Canada bordering Point Roberts I cried inside by the way he pronounced "Tsawassen."