This is simply an administrative problem. There is no reason that people living on the border in this situation could not be given special status that would allow them to move freely back and forth. There are communities that span the border between Vermont and Quebec that are split down the middle as well.
So true. You would think that the U.S. and Canadian governments could work out some type of compromise for these people. The situation isn't their fault and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.
@@e-curb It's true. But would it be a reason to do away with the special status altogether? I recall the library in Quebec/Vermont situated right on the Canada/US border that was being used to smuggle guns into Canada (by being left in the washroom).
@@e-curb Imagine that through some sequence of events, these exclaves are the last bastions of humanity on earth, and they become insanely overpopulated. Something like Dredd and Total Recall combined.
I suggest you visit St. Pierre and Miquelon. These are 2 islands, 12 miles from Newfoundland. They are a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France. The residents are citizens of France. Yet almost wholly dependent on Canada.
My family is from the town in Newfoundland nearest to St. Pierre. During prohibition (and afterwards when taxes were higher and fishing didn't pay well " fisherman would go to St. Pierre in their fishing boats, load up on alcohol, and sell it back in Newfoundland for a crazy profit. This became more common again after the Canadian fishery closures in the 90s and any other time that money was tight as French liquor has always been considerably cheaper.
Thank you for finishing off the trifecta of exclaves along the contiguous US/Canadian border. We enjoyed having you visit Point Roberts, loved the Northwest Angle video and we are happy you finally got to visit our sister city of Campobello Island. As you have found out, most of the residents who live in these areas have strong connections on both sides of the borders but would not want to change the country they are affiliated with. There is a strong sense of pride and local identity by those who live within these geographic anomalies. You are always welcome to come back to the Point for a visit.
@@hdufort I always considered Akwesasne sovereign first nation territory. If they are like other first nation territories, the Mohawk people that lived within those boundaries were exempt form many if not all the restrictions that people who lived within the other exclaves had to endure during Covid. If I am wrong about this I would really like to know since our local first nation peoples could travel across the Canada/US border with little difficulty during the border closures caused by Covid.
As a Canadian I truly wish we would 1. Adopt the USD and ditch the CDN, 2. Make it much easier to travel between the 2 countries or at least allow folks in these border towns easier hassle-free access like it was pre 9/11. And the pandemic exposed the miles of garbage red tape the Canadian feds have in the way of all this. Just look how that meat-head border guard made the guy in his own car mask up even tho that’s not mandatory
I visited Campobello Island as a quick stop from Connecticut on my way to P.E.I. This was two weeks after 9-11-01. I was waved through from the Canadian side with zero issues. I took about 45 minutes to visit the FDR House and made my way back to the US border. There I was met with antagonistic border guards yelling rapid fire accusatory questions at me. About 6 or 7 agents went through every inch of my car, with dogs. If they looked at the computer, I had visited Canada twenty+ times in the past without incident. Never been in trouble with the law. It was so disturbing it took me over ten years to return to Canada. Mind you, the Canadian border guard was great.
So, exactly 2 weeks after a huge national security event, you are baffled that you had trouble with US border guards with their pride stung??? You are a nit wit.
I have crossed the border a few times in my life. Maybe 30. It has been the same each time. Canada is welcoming. The us treats you like a criminal on the way back in.
@Guitarzen Sadly now due to lack of regulation in USA Canads biggest city Toronto is having a massive influx of American firearms that are being used in crimes.
I grew up in a border town in British Columbia. It was on the boarder with Idaho. Before 911 I crossed the border weekly to gas up and buy cigarettes. We would shop in Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint and Spokane. For the most part prior to 911 it was a benign experience. Occasionally you'd be searched which wasn't fun but it was tolerable. After 911 it became outright not worth it. I haven't been to the States since about 2005
Years ago I worked at a tiny AM radio station in Massena NY. I sold ads to NY businesses and Canadian businesses. The border guard coming into Canada would chew the fat for a minute or two if they weren't busy and recommend a good coffee stop I hadn't visited yet. The U.S. border agents were complete pricks. Every time.
I would like to point out that the part of this video that is talking about the bank being closed is not on Campobello. I’m originally from Campobello & currently live on Grand Manan. That news segment from CHOCO TV is about the bank that closed this summer on Grand Manan Island. The man in the glasses speaking about the great island that’s losing their bank is my fiancé. He was talking about Grand Manan. So idk if you guys wanna fix that or not. If I’m not mistaken Campobello lost their bank years ago.
Why is it that Hyder, AK is ALWAYS forgotten by articles like this. Hyder, AK is pretty much completely dependent upon Stewart, BC, even the school children go to Stewart, BC for their education. Stewart, BC also provides ALL emergency services, & infrastructure. Even the telephone area code for Hyder, AK uses the same one as Stewart, BC, in fact Hyder, AK is the ONLY location in Alaska that does not have a 907 area code.
@ Corinne M: it's a road - no bridge or ferry required. There isn't even a US border patrol presence in Hyder. You can just wander right in. Coming back into Canada/Stewart, you do have to pass through Canada customs, however.
I think it was focussed on Canadian areas attached to the US, not vice versa. Looking at a map, It looks like Stewart BC is much more developed than Hyder, and nearby, so our governments likely coordinate efforts for schools and health care.
One potential problem with trading Campobello Island for Point Roberts is the difference in economical value between the two pieces of land. Campobello Island has a strong and valuable sea food industry. Fishing boundaries may change if Campobello Island became part of the USA.
@@pepepepert Thr Russians want Alaska back as well. Don't know why, as electric cars need charging stations, which are not abundant in the wooded areas. Can't carry electricity in cans as well. Problematic.
You could do a whole video on dual citizens holding up their passports and talking about the pros and cons of their experience of being a citizen in both countries.
the pros would be obvious..i live by the border in St.Catharines by Niagara Falls...everythign in the USA is cheaper but they are really nazis nowadays when it comes to crossing the border ...food is cheaper, gas is cheaper eveyrthing is cheaper there than here..they pay about half what we pay in gas and we sell to them...also in an above comment i posted youd avoid customs fees when buying something american online ..which is pretty big fee depending on what you buy...i was going to buy soemthing for 55 dollar sonline fomr the USa then with shipping the conversion rate, it came out to 150 dollars not to mention the cutoms fees youd have to pay when it gets here..i bought a melting pot an had to pay 33 dollars custom fees when she delevered it to my house form the USa if i had a post offic ebox in the USA that fee gets avoided..it saves alot fo money benefits like those are worth it alone..
i also bought a pair of thsoe glasses for colour blind peopel as my dad is colour blind so i thought hed like them...they were posted at 300 dollars so i said ah wtf ill buy them anyway itd be worth it when the conversion rate happened ithey came out to 550 with the shipping but i bought them anyway then i had to pick them up at teh post office and there was 100 dollar customs fee so a pair of glasses listed at 300-350 bucks ended up costing me 600 dollars from all thsoe stupid fees of shipping and customs..150 dollar sjust for that shit...its a ripoff. meanwhile i can buy stuff form teh other side of the world aka China and get shipping free....it makes no sense
Roosevelt Campobello is not the only international park. Back in 1932, Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta and Glacier National Park in Montana formed a union as an international peace park that was achieved thanks to the efforts of the province's and state's rotary clubs. The effort took acts passed in Congress (approved by the US Senate in March 1932) and Parliament and Royal Assent (May 1932) for it to happen. The International Peace Garden between Manitoba and North Dakota was established in 1932 as well.
You are correct, it is not the only international park in the world. However it is the only one that works the way it does. It is equally owned, operated, funded and governed by both Canada and the USA. The park has citizens from both countries who work there, yet it sits solely on one country's land. Makibg it the only international park it's kind in the world.
i would think peace arch park would also be considered an international park. half is in canada & half is in the us, but anyone who visits the park can roam around freely. idk what the definition of an “international park” is though
And I believe one of those both citizens can technically enter both countries without a passport or a checkpoint. But don’t go outside the park or it’s considered an illegal entry.
The last time we visited the The International Peace Gardens , we were camping at Adam lake in Manitoba . The park was a free zone for all Americans and Canadians , on exiting we went through US Customs to visit Dunseith North Dakota . And then Canada Customs on our way back .
@@OfftheCuff_Series The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good. Borders divide people Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact ) Borders hinder progress. Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
@@OfftheCuff_Series wish you would have pushed back on the forcing of putting a mask on in your own car but I understand how you didn’t want to cause an issue. But think about this, Canada has no legal mandate that says you have to mask up in your own car. He would not have been able to enforce this but I’m sure he’d be a dick about it
The ferry to mainland NB from Campobello actually is currently privately run and has a contract for year round travel, weather permitting. It links to Deer Island which has a year round Government run ferry system.
Why not just build a bridge to deer island? It’d be cheaper than running a ferry to both in the long run. Besides, other islands do just fine without access to a bridge to the mainland, it’s just that Canada’s government has taken advantage of the fact that the island has a connection to the US as an excuse to ignore it, despite how impractical it is. Canada has thousands of islands which don’t have the luxury of a bridge connecting them to the mainland, but it chooses to ignore this island. If Deer Island and Grand Manan Island can manage, then so can Campobello. The latter even has its own airport!
@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 I am Canadian and the Canadian government doesn't prioritise infrastructure megaprojects, though we pay high taxes like Denmark. Canada hasn't built a massive bridge since the 1997 (Confederation Bridge, New Brunswick). Taxes goes to "universal healthcare" which are understaffed overcapacity hospitals.
@@Andrew-gn9qp If the New Brunswick provincial government or the Canadian federal government does not care about the islands all that much to connect it to the Canadian mainland, and if they are okay with just leaving the island connected to Maine only, then the Canadian government should just consider seceding the island to Maine. If Canada does not consider it worthwhile to invest in the infrastructure for the island, they can afford to lose the island. What about the residents of the island? - the provincial/federal government of Canada should have been considering that question long time ago, but it seems like they don't care. Because if they did, they would have cared to work out a solution to connect the island to the mainland whether it is by a regular government run ferry system or by a bridge.
@@thepunisher2988 same applies to the US lol. Northwest angle could have some bridge to connect to Mainland USA but it doesn't make economical sense considering the low population.
Hey guys, listen I ' ve got a crazy 3rd idea to add: Make Campobello an independent nation, it can be a tiny island nation and with the help of donations build parliament and government buildings and run itself without the U.S. and Canada, maybe it could absorb other, smaller islands around it? 🤨
My favorite geographic oddity in North America is the small overseas collectivity of St Pierre and Miquelon. It's the last remaining remnant of the once vast New France (for those who don't know, what's now Quebec, Atlantic Canada, the Canadian Prairies, and the American Midwest). France got to keep St Pierre and Miquelon after the Seven Years' War because Britain granted them fishing rights along the Newfoundland coast. But the islands have been exchanged between Britain and France many times throughout its history where Britain kept destroying French settlements (like they did in response to France supporting American revolutionaries). The islands were finally resettled by France in 1816 with Basques, Bretons, and Normans. You can see the flags of these three ethnic groups on the unofficial St. Pierre and Miquelon flag and their official coat of arms (which honestly, their flag is pretty cool).
Went down a rabbit hole on this one... less than 1000 people live on this island... there is year round ferry service for nearby Deer and Grand Manon islands, but for some reason Campobello doesn't get winter ferry service because it's "too dangerous"?... and even if there was year-round ferry service to Canada, the bridge link to the US creates two "trade-off" choices for residents: it's either a short drive to Lubec, which is right next door but problematic because of the border (with Homeland tensions and ever-changing policies)... or a long ferry haul into Canada just to get services, to shop, or to get gas. (Border issues aside, the folks of Campobello appear to have more shopping options available because of Lubec than the other two islands.) As for a land swap, I can see three options for residents: a) sell your property to the "new" country for fair market value and then move to the mainland of your home country; b) keep your property and your existing citizenship, essentially becoming a foreign owner in the new country (making you subject to existing visa laws and conditions), or; c) keep your property and simply become a citizen of the new country. Given how small and sparsely populated these enclaves are, I can see why any action on the part of either country is such a low priority. Until there is a "real" reason to spend the money necessary to make land swaps, it's just easier (and cheaper) to let it remain as it is. For the interim, you'd think slightly-modified Nexus passes and passports would be enough to provide less hassle for pre-screened residents?
I just came across this channel clearly this is my first video of yours that I watched! The fact that you pack your suitcase, the way you did in the video “I know it’s not legit” but tossing the dog into it that was awesome!
I'm sure a bridge could be built from Campobello to Deer Island, using Cherry Island and Indian Island. Then another bridge from Deer Island to L'Etete on the mainland. Campobello would then be a little over an hour's drive from Saint John.
I'm sure the residents of the communities on these islands would prefer that solution, but nobody is going to greenlight a series of hugely expensive bridges like that in such a sensitive marine ecosystem. The sensible solution should be improved and reliable ferry service to NB and administrative leeway at the international border.
I love your videos about US-CAN border absurdities! You should also have a look into the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation wich is spread between New York state and Ontario and Quebec provinces. The Canadian part of the reserve is completely isolated from the rest of the country.
You At 5:34 is the artist's depiction of the Battle of Ridgeway of June 1866. Irish American veterans of the US Civil War (hence the IRA flag) invaded Fort Erie and fought the Queen's Own Rifles at Ridgeway. The original painting is at the Fort Erie Museum along with a collection of works depicting the events by the same artist.
5:05 If we define Native Americans as any indigenous group that lives in the Americas, then the Greenlandic Inuit are the easternmost. There are also a few more eastern tribes such as the Beothuk (extinct tribe from Newfoundland) and Mi'kmaq (from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula) Solution: Have the island join the DPRK instead. We'll build a gas station, supermarkets, and they'll be able to connect to the rest of the DPRK if we build an airport and have Air Koryo flights to Pyongyang daily. Not to mention the DPRK has universal healthcare and taxes have been abolished here since 1974. If they don't want to be American, then I'm sure they'll be willing to support a nation that stands their ground against the US and put my smiling face all over the place.
I live in a small town in BC , we just got are first Timmy's all we got were a new group of Canadians that don't speak English, they didn't hire one white kid from the town, Fudge Timmy's
And a trade of this island with America for say....Point Roberts will never happen when you consider that there's a pretty good fishing market that Canada would be giving up that they won't get from Point Roberts.
@@OfftheCuff_Series The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good. Borders divide people Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact ) Borders hinder progress. Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
Why not use the solution used in Hyder, AK as well as in many European jurisdictions which are on the EU outer border; such as Busingen, Northern Ireland, Ceuta and Melilla and Campione 'd Italia; move the customs border. Point Roberts would then become part of BC for customs purposes, Angle Inlet part of MB and Campobello part of Maine.
People generally don't want to switch countries just because they live in an geographically odd place . Both countries should sit down and discuss how they can make situations like this seamless as possible.
Make Point Roberts and Angle Inlet part of Canada (they are geographically connected to Canada by actual landmass) and Campobello Island part of the US (they aren't geographically connected to either but the only bridge in and out of the place connects to the US not Canada). Problem solved. Some individuals might initially object but at the end of the day it would make almost every aspect of their lives easier and cheaper (regardless of which nation they switch to). However, I admire the possible ferry solution too as a workaround if they're ever able to get it to become year round... but imho those borders really oughta be fixed.
How about the Canadians sell BC and Manitoba to the USA. There problem solved. You know what actually why doesn’t all of Canada just join the USA, after all Canadians have literally no national identity or culture other than “not being American 🇺🇸❌”. The only real difference is those frenchies in Quebec, other than that Canadians are carbon copies of Americans.
@@jonathanwilliams1065 that’s what I said. I just simplified it to “Americans” instead of saying “Minnesotans” and “Washingtonians” either way Canadians don’t have a national identity and they don’t have a culture that is unique to Canada.
@@keiths81ca St Pierre et Miquelon are not dependant on Canada. They have all the basic services in the islands and they are supplied directly from mainland France by air and sea like all other isolated France territories. The local economy really suffered from the lack of touristes tho
I don't think you will see any Canadian giving up sovereign territory, no matter how challenging it is to maintain. Just watched a video on the Canadian Rangers and the challenges they face in the far north. Canada loves a challenge and Campobello is Canadian. In reality it helps both Canadians and Americans relate to and understand each other. I see a way, in this, for both Americans & Canadians to understand that they have important connections as North Americans. We are both citizens of something bigger, North America.
Thats b.s. there is nothing Canadian and nothing USA. You need to relate to reconciliation and land back, and give it back to the Passamaquoddy people and relate and understand land back and reconciliation and that you are all guests and they are your hosts
@@voidremoved There is a reason there is the truth and reconciliation act in Canada. Indigenous people don't want their land back, they just want to be treated with respect and recognized that they were here first. First Nations people were not against foreigners, modernizing, or learning. What they're against is being force assimilated into a culture that isn't their own, forced off their home, and treated like lower class society. Now of course there are indigenous people who may have been hard against modernization and others who were more okay with it. However, the main thing is the British, Spanish and rest of Europe coming to NA did help modernize the western hemisphere of the world. It needed to happen at some point, it just should've been handled a hell of a lot better. If not England/Spain/France it would have been Russia/Japan/China.
I recently went to Lubec Maine I live in Michigan, I E-biked across the bridge to the Campabello island. I only live about 30 mins from the Windsor tunnel in Detroit and the bridge and this was the only bridge I was told I could bike across.
Islanders are great at stocking up, canning food, freezing garden veg and fruit, I lived on an island, we had a woodstove and a furnace, I canned and froze everything, we had 2 freezers, we were well stocked for winter, 1 year I never left the house for the month of Feb. If you were desparate for something the mailman would bring it from the village on a snowmobile.
We had an essential travel exemption at the beginning, however Biden revoked that January 15th 2022. The USA borders are still closed to the unvaccinated so if you are not a duel citizen and are not vaccinated you are pretty much stranded.
There are lots of Island communities in Canada, (maybe not attached to the US) but only accesible by ferry, except when the weather turns bad, I lived on one for 18 years, it's a whole different way of life.
How I already said in comments about Point Roberts and the NorthwestAnkle: the American and Canadian Governments make it way to complicate to find exceptions for those places. In Europe we make it easier: Büsingen for example just belongs by customs to Switzerland, and when Switzerland closed the borders to Germany there was in the begin no exception for Büsingers to go to Germany. But this way it made way more sence than guarding the Swiss/Büsingen border.
It was the US who made things difficult, especially since 9/11. I'm pretty sure the Canadian side wouldn't want to made any change if the US didn't enforce their border.
7:00 - A Canadian mom would still birth a U.S. citizen, if she gave birth in Maine. Just to make sure people don't get the wrong idea with the park ranger saying "Back Then..."
@@karyon1007 - I'm always worried that people will take something they hear in a RUclips video as completely factual. The Fourteenth Amendment has not been repealed.
@@pacificostudios Yeah, I definitely looked it up to reassure myself, but for a second my brain short-circuited.😆 I was just scrolling the comments hoping that someone else had caught it, too!
@@karyon1007birthright citizenship is still in the 14th Amendment, Section 1. The child might not be considered natural born without parents of US citizenship because of the definition of natural born from The Law of Nations (by Emer de Vattel) that the US founders used as a reference for other terms and presumably this one. Thus, the child would be a US citizen at birth but ineligible to be president or vice president of the US.
its shocking that basically the whole of Europe managed to deal with issues like this, with open borders, but US exceptionalism seems to stop it being possible between the US and Canada. What a ridiculous situation.
As an ex resident of Point Roberts wa I feel their pain, when we delivered fed ex ground, i was required to open every package and manifest it for Canada and us customs,So I knew what everyone had in their parcels, ypu lose your freedoms.
@@aheat3036 Usonians want Chinese to starve but want Canada to be loyal. The Usonians want Middle East loyalty but kill their kids and fuel extremism. They cry china is hurting Africa yet china has helped them more while usa uses kids for cobalt.
This is the problem with simply drawing the border in a straight line. Harris island is and island, and really could go either way, but Point Roberts I think would be easier for travel and logistics to just integrate into Canada, since that's where the land access is.
Having sold items on the internet to both the United States and Canada, from the United States, I can tell you that it wouldn't be such a big problem with customs, except for the fact that Canadian customs model themselves on the Soviet Union. They are awful, reject things for this smallest thing and sometimes make Canadians come pick things up from the border, even if the recipient lives a hundred miles away. At the end of that business, I stopped selling to Canada altogether.
You may think Canada rejects imports for the smallest thing, but that could be a small thing that involves treaties with several other countries and could have been the compromise to end a war. Also, the US is well known for causing goods to sit at the port of entry for MONTHS waiting to be released. Even when the shipment is from known facilities and using reputable border handling agents. It is common for multimillion dollar shipments to be delayed while the people to complete the installation are on business travel just waiting. The government will release the shipment when they release it....or they won't. International trade is complicated in the best of times. It is not something for amateurs to experiment with unless you have a thorough understanding of what you are doing before you conduct the first transaction.
"The only International Park in the world" This is simply not true. There are a bunch of other examples in the US and Canada alone, including ones that are similarly jointly managed, like Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park. Also, "back when you automatically got US citizenship for being born there". This is still the case. "You don't know day to day what you can bring across the border." Yes you do. It's completely and thoroughly laid out by the CBSA. The administrator has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. "Poutine" is pronounced with an emphasis on the second syllable, not first.
i live in St stephen NB and work on campobello isalnd as a lobster fisherman. I have to drive trough the US to go to work. Proud to be apart of the wacky situation
Lubec is one of the most beautiful towns in Maine. Forever proud. The small village of Estcourt Station on the northwest border of Maine is an oddity as well. You can only access it by way of crossing the border at Fort Kent and head west across New Brunswick/Quebec.
@@lakorai2 The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good. Borders divide people Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact ) Borders hinder progress. Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
North Americans do not understand and would not accept the invasion of privacy required to permit the implementation of a Schengen Treaty. There is no need for European countries to inspect passports at the border because they are tracked every time anyone changes their place of residence. Europeans have always known that their movements were monitored on a daily basis by the police. Modern technology has made this more efficient. Most hotels now scan your passport or national identity card at the front desk, which updates the national database, and your identification is immediately returned. If the hotel does not have a scanner your identification is held at the front desk until a government agent can scan it. North Americans are used to only having to present proof of the ability to pay. North American hotels do not even record driver's licenses. Neither Canada nor the United States even has a national photo identification card. Neither Canada nor the United States would give up the right to control who has permission to work within the country.
I believe fishing rights make up a large part of the problem regarding Campobello Island. The owner of the island has international fishing rights extending out into the very rich fishing grounds. The American fishing lobby has powerful friends in Washington and desperately wants that fishing territory that currently belongs to Canada.
We need not trade our country for the convenience of a few whiners. A bridge or two can be built connecting the islands. They should petition their representatives or find somewhere else to live. This is a part of CANADA and should remain so.
I disagree with the notion that whoever drew the border did it that way because they were stupid and/or drunk because the problems identified in the video are things that the people who originally drew the borders probably could not even have imagined. Back then, it was probably easy to travel to the island from Canada since boats were probably the fastest mode of transportation around and were much more common than they are now. The modern concept of borders just didn't exist back then. Gas stations, the modern grocery store, etc. likewise did not exist and were not invented until generations after the borders were drawn.
By this logic…Canada should own Alaska 🤔 Alaska is in no way connected to the US…in fact an American has to travel, drive almost 3000km through Canada to get to Alaska. Maybe we should ask for a % of all that 2,000,000 lbs of gold mined from Alaska 🤔 …The US got a hell of a deal , about $140 million in today’s dollars.
Off the Cuff, this was a great video with lots of explanations of some knotty problems. On a side note, may I point out a few things? First of all, Utrecht is pronounced YOU-treked; then the tribe is pass-uh-muh-QUAD-ee, and finally, the Canadian dish you ate is poo-TEEN. Also, in case you're interested in an idea for another town (American this time) which is cut off the the rest of the country, it's Hyder, AK: Hyder is in the Panhandle, or Southeast, which is otherwise served by the State Ferry System, but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road; US mail flown from Ketchikan.
@@linebrunelle1004, OK, but isn't Canada bilingual, i.e., both pronunciation are acceptable? We make allowances for Hispanics when they pronounce Chicago with an 'sh' instead of the correct 'ch'.
Campobello has been completely cut off from the Canadian government for years. For decades its police force was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police under a Provincial contract instead of a federal one. The RCMP closed its doors and now if you need the police, they have to travel from St. Stephen or elsewhere through the USA for nearly an hour by car to get to the island. The Province of NB doesn't care because the island isn't French. No, gas, no food, no police and no year round ferry. The Canadian government gives away billions of dollars to other countries but couldn't be bothered to fund a year round ferry system from Deer Island to Campobello island for a tiny fraction of that amount. Maybe if the Island was a Native Reservation things would be different and the public would be outraged like they should be!
It's not too far to build a bridge to Canada. Sure, it'd be a lot longer than the bridge that goes to the USA. It might even have to be a 2-part bridge, making an intermediate stop at the other Canadian Island just next to it. But it would fix the issues. And probably revive the fortunes of the town.
I think the Canadian govt. should purchase these enclaves/islands. Would be good for Canadian P.R., same with the Caribbean islands that want to join Canada like Jamaica for instance.
Well, I think the case of Campobello is a much easier one to resolve compared to the other two conflicts. For the other two, a buyout seems to be the only way out but for Campobello, it is a solid single island that is closer to the US and it has other islands towards the Canadian water/soil which bridges can be built to its mainland, of course, at a price. I get why the residents of Campobello are demanding ferry service for such a long time. Because it makes the most sense as of now.
If anything the provincial government has been very generous to the Island. Probably half the Island's work is government positions. Roosevelt International Park and Herring Cove Provincial Park. RCMP, Ambulance, Customs, Fisheries, School. I am sure there are more not off the top of my head. The ferry is privately owned and was subsidized by the government during the pandemic and ran all year round. For most of the trips during the winter the Ferry ran empty, it was often faster and more convenient to drive around than to use it, and very weather dependent. This winter will be the first one in three years that it won't run. The Committee for the Year Round Ferry is also closely tied with Stephanie that you interviewed. The clips of the bank closure wasn't on Campobello Island. Our Scotia Bank left in the early 2000's and the Credit Union that replaced it left 5-8 years later. Due to other reasons. The Pandemic and Border Closure was strange but not deal breaking. Campobello Residents had exemptions when crossing for Essentials (gas, medical, hardware, grocery) the checking of vaccination and ArriveCan app was the same as for airports. If anything we of the Island were given more freedoms than most of the Mainland and got a lot more bitter looks if people knew you were from the Island. Most of the food restrictions would effect any border town. You can't bring certain things across due to multiple reasons. If anything you have to deal with isolation on this Island. When new people come to Campobello, I tend to ask "Can you live in your own head?" if they say Yes, they will be fine. the ones that say No, are usually gone within the year. A lot of people don't get that concept when they move here without doing any research. It is a small isolated island with less than 1000 year round residents. It is quiet. We like it that way.
They need a ferry and a real ramp. The tiny road that you wait for the ferry on is too small. I launched my boat at this ramp at low tide and got stuck in the gravel. Luckily some fisherman pulled me out or I would have watched my SUV submerge in an hour. It ust to be great fishing in the area until the draggers, gillnetters, and purseseiners wrecked it. It's a beautiful island. The provincial park is very nice.
@@ecogreen123 Tell that to millions of migrants walking for weeks and months all over the world today. They had nothing and they still realize that they have choices about where to live. You could learn something from them.
Same thing happens in Point Roberts in the US that borders Tsawwassen in BC Canada. People in the US are completely surrounded by the ocean on three sides. Only way they can get in or out is to cross into Canada. To get back to the US they have to drive about an hour through Canada back to Washington State border.
I have a question, you mentioned that many people on the island are dual citizens because there's no hospital on the island, but one of the people you interviewed mentioned universal health care, how does that work? Do Canadians on the island carry American health insurance or does the Canadian government pay for the services they receive in the US?
@@jasonfarmer7672 well when a Canadian disabled veteran and Paralympic medalist wanted a chair lift she was instead offered assisted suicide Her case is not unique
@@jonathanwilliams1065 wow that is insane, I remember reading something the other day about how they were making assisted suicide available to depressed young adults with no other medical conditions, that is insane. I am not completely against assisted suicide, but I think that almost everyone can agree that offering suicide to a healthy depressed young adult with no other medical conditions is insane....... This is what happens when you make the state responsible for your health care, you can't be angry when the state tries to tell you how to live (and when to die) when they are footing the bill for your health care.
its because the US for the last 50-55 years has become increasingly insular, rather than integrating with the world around it. personally, i'd either set up dual ferry service (when one is coming, the other is going) and have it at least twice daily (four times would be preferable, early morning, afternoon, evening and night) even if the government has to run it at a loss... or trade the town for an awkwardly place american town/city (like Point Roberts, which would then become part of B.C. which its directly connected to, and not the US which it has to access by a ferry or by similarly driving roughly 40km to access the BC-Washington border) if the residents of that town and the other town in question agree by a vote.
Not so simple, guns, very few Canadians want the American gun culture here. In fact the majority of Americans don't want it either according to the polls, but are restricted by a right wing court decision to interpet their second amendment ignoring part of of it and overturning many years of precident. Additionally it would allow the import of massively subsidized American food products like eggs and dairy who also have less restrictive health regulations. Those conditions do not exist in the EU. Obviously by the name the EU is a union. 92% of Canadians oppose any union with the US.
It is even more Im not responding to your gasligjting anymore. Nobody is that misinformed...your trying to push false narratives Your poor grammer screams Russian troll farm
There are very limited benefits for Canadians to illegally stay in the US. On the other hand, the Mexican border is purposefully maintained in its current state. The US economy relies on a large number of low wage workers who aren't in a position to negotiate for better working conditions. Employers who employ undocumented workers are rarely prosecuted and little is done to prevent repeat offenders from recrossing the border. Both major political supporters have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and neither has done anything effective when they hold power. American's spent billions building a wall that had little effect on the numbers, while a law penalizing employers of illegals never made it to the floor.
This is the same situation in the Vancouver area for a small US town called Point Robert’s. It completely closed off from the rest of the US. So if you live here and go to Washington State, which it is part of, you actually have to leave the US, drive through Canada and then go back into the US.
5:05 not true :D there were a few more eastern tribes such as the Beothuk ( extinct ) and Mi'kmaq ( im part Mi'kmaq ) Canada doesn't really like to give us any credit though, and neither do the other native tribes for that matter, My guess is because we so easily integrated with the europeans, thankfully making residential schools not so much a problem for our tribe as others, as our schools were already mixed. Some of us had to fight with the government to get our status cards, while most of us still never got any recognition of native heritage.
The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good. Borders divide people Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact ) Borders hinder progress. Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
I've got a lot of family history in Point Roberts, would be sad to see the place switch countries if it ever did. It's actually a pretty cool little community there. Or at least last time I was there back in the late 90s for my great-grandfather's funeral at the Point Roberts Cemetery it was.
Actually looking at a map, the island is farther north than much of Nova Scotia, and it falls completely within a line connecting the mainland of Canada to southern NS, making it NOT an anomaly sticking out oddly. Being an island hasn't prevented PEI from being part of Canada. The only usual feature here is its relative closeness to US mainland vs Canada mainland, so travel to the US is more convenient. By the same argument one could argue in favour of Alaska becoming part of Canada. The solution as noted in the video: Provide better options for direct travel to the Canadian mainland.
@@tiffaniterris2886Alaska is a state so it can’t leave, you’d need the same approval you’d get for passing an amendment for it to leave. Also it’s right next to Russia, no way they’d give it up.
in the border disputes with the US and in treaties, Canada usually lost a lot more than it gained, so as a Canadian i would hate to give up another acre of our land, of course i dont live on the island. Its probably a great place, for cottages anyway, and slow paced living, a very special place, so enjoy, everyone is so uptight nowadays.
I was born in NB, now living in Alberta. I know one thing for certain: if it ever becomes apparent that Campobello Island is imminently and undeniably destined to join the US I will be immediately taking up residence on Campobello in anticipation of my up-coming US citizenship. Canada - thanks in large part to uninformed, indoctrinated and clueless voters (like the lady near the end of the video) over a span of the last 60 years - has become a communist hell-hole. There is no longer any hope for saving CanaChinaZuela. But there's still hope to save the US from the same fate given its constitution and better-informed/well-armed majority of citizens. As an American citizen we'd be in a much better position to do our part both at the polls and within their military to keep totalitarianism chained up in the basement where it belongs.
I think Richard exaggerates when he compares CDN bureaucracy to PRC. Zeus is funny about how Canada is close to totalitarian state, whereas USA is apparently free. Which country is suffering from an ex president who is still trying to overthrow the constitution and govern as a dictator? Not Canada. I suspect both of you are anti-vaxxers.
@@oldpossum57 It appears one of us is a political idiot, but it's neither me nor Richard. Both Canada and the US are under attack by totalitarian globalist parasitic elites hell-bent on genocide and enslavement of those they allow to continue with the ability to fog a mirror. The difference is that the US is proving to be a much tougher nut to crack thanks to a larger population percentage of informed and patriotic citizens backed by a stronger constitution. CanaChinaZuela on the other hand is a much softer target for them. There's still hope for the US. Canada, Europe and Australia, not so much. Thanks for coming out though. You may go now.
dont let canada take it and im saying that as a Canadian...look at tsawwassen real estate vs Pt Roberts real estate prices...Pt Roberts is a gem...only negative is the amerikkkan border guards...if canada gets a hold of this place they will develop it until there is nothing left...our corporate owned govts should be protecting us from this but they are right involved in the absolute disguting greed. all about money..people,and the environment don't matter anymore to corps and corp governments...they are limp to stop any destructive corp activity.
@@carlthor91 The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good. Borders divide people Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact ) Borders hinder progress. Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
@@jasongill5390 How do I say this respectfully, North america is a continent and so is South America, they aren't joint but separate If your talking about both pluraly then It's the America's with an S. Nationality wise when your referring to someone from the United State of america their nationality is American as it's well known, Half the world is taught that so when a Canadian says they're not American it's because they aren't. They may be North American but not American as taught in certain educational systems around the world. So when you say they're wrong your simply wrong because people are taught different continent models around the world.
@@Kingofspaids do u know why North America and South America as the word America in it? Key word in both continents is AMERICA. The whole continent was called America before 😉.....half the world teaches u that North America and South America are one America. Go anywhere in South America and u will see. Hell in Mexico they have football teams with the name America lol. I'm Canadian as well btw. I get why South America embraces the name America and Christopher Columbus. On the flip side I also understand why Canadians don't celebrate America or Columbus.
In my opinion, the US and Canadian border should just be open like that of the EU member nations. This would resolve a lot of issues for these communities and other things. This also solves the issues of the towns that are split down the middle by the border. For the US side if the border is so important then they would secure our southern border which wide slam open. So, let's open the Northern border.
@@mutedunknown2734If you cross the US Canada border, you’d realize there’s no danger in it at all. The US is just more of an extreme right wing nation than the Canadians would want to do this with.
I think the solution in both cases is a customs union where Pt Roberts becomes part of Canada's customs area and Campobello Island becomes part off the US customs area. This would make border checks be only immigration checks while goods could flow freely back and forth. However this would also mean that there would be a customs check on the ferry from New Brunswick to Campobello island and you could take a boat or plane from Pt Roberts to the mainland US without clearing customs first. So there would still be frustrating border issues but they would move from the more common land crossings to the less common air/sea crossings.
Trading cities is fine, but we could also open up borders between USA and Canada. Let's create a "Schengen area" of Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, and the Bahamas.
I remember visiting Campobello just prior to 2009. We needed our birth certificates for the border crossing but nothing more. It's pretty for sure! The barges were pretty great.
I still couldn't understand why two countries with a similar living standard and culture couldn't have an open border. In the EU people from different cultures can cross their borders with no hassle at all.
Drug, human trafficking is way easier without border (trust me because most slave go to EU) and criminal are instead localized, instead of being able to go amywhere at anytime they are limited in it
USA illegally occupies land all over the world. The island you are referring to was first occupied by the UK to build a vital lighthouse to protect shipping going to and from Canadian ports. It was, is and always will be part of Canada.
@@jonathanwilliams1065 LOL how did Hawaii become USA property? Do you think Mexican people like the fact that half of their country was taken in a war of conquest started deliberately by the USA? I could go on.
There is anothe quirk in the border with Hyder, Alaska (USA). It is a very remote little town which is cut off from the anything "American". The towns' people have to cross into Canada to purchase food and other life support items from Stewart, BC (Canada). If I am not mistaken, even Canadian Mounties go into Hyder to see how things are getting along. So from a practical standpoint, Hyder, Alaska is Canadian. It is US in name only. No the pandemic problem with crossing, I think Canadians should seriously question the Trudeau government about the problems with that. He acted like a tyrant.
This is simply an administrative problem. There is no reason that people living on the border in this situation could not be given special status that would allow them to move freely back and forth. There are communities that span the border between Vermont and Quebec that are split down the middle as well.
So true. You would think that the U.S. and Canadian governments could work out some type of compromise for these people. The situation isn't their fault and they shouldn't have to suffer for it.
It would be abused.
@@e-curb It's true. But would it be a reason to do away with the special status altogether? I recall the library in Quebec/Vermont situated right on the Canada/US border that was being used to smuggle guns into Canada (by being left in the washroom).
@@e-curb Imagine that through some sequence of events, these exclaves are the last bastions of humanity on earth, and they become insanely overpopulated. Something like Dredd and Total Recall combined.
@@ratflama8369 it took Canada/Denmark 80 years to split an uninhabited island Canada/USA will never agree to the island status.
I suggest you visit St. Pierre and Miquelon. These are 2 islands, 12 miles from Newfoundland. They are a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France. The residents are citizens of France. Yet almost wholly dependent on Canada.
Thanks for the recommendation!
French, English, Europeans, all colonists.
@@themarbleking your point
My family is from the town in Newfoundland nearest to St. Pierre.
During prohibition (and afterwards when taxes were higher and fishing didn't pay well " fisherman would go to St. Pierre in their fishing boats, load up on alcohol, and sell it back in Newfoundland for a crazy profit.
This became more common again after the Canadian fishery closures in the 90s and any other time that money was tight as French liquor has always been considerably cheaper.
@@burningblue1254 sorry, I meant heartless thieving murdering colonising rapists. Does that help?
Thank you for finishing off the trifecta of exclaves along the contiguous US/Canadian border. We enjoyed having you visit Point Roberts, loved the Northwest Angle video and we are happy you finally got to visit our sister city of Campobello Island. As you have found out, most of the residents who live in these areas have strong connections on both sides of the borders but would not want to change the country they are affiliated with. There is a strong sense of pride and local identity by those who live within these geographic anomalies. You are always welcome to come back to the Point for a visit.
People tend to also forget about Saint Regis.
@@hdufort I always considered Akwesasne sovereign first nation territory. If they are like other first nation territories, the Mohawk people that lived within those boundaries were exempt form many if not all the restrictions that people who lived within the other exclaves had to endure during Covid. If I am wrong about this I would really like to know since our local first nation peoples could travel across the Canada/US border with little difficulty during the border closures caused by Covid.
I suppose it just makes too much sense to give all of these residents dual citizenship.
As a Canadian I truly wish we would 1. Adopt the USD and ditch the CDN, 2. Make it much easier to travel between the 2 countries or at least allow folks in these border towns easier hassle-free access like it was pre 9/11. And the pandemic exposed the miles of garbage red tape the Canadian feds have in the way of all this. Just look how that meat-head border guard made the guy in his own car mask up even tho that’s not mandatory
Canada is one of the most pathetic puppet states in history.
I visited Campobello Island as a quick stop from Connecticut on my way to P.E.I. This was two weeks after 9-11-01. I was waved through from the Canadian side with zero issues. I took about 45 minutes to visit the FDR House and made my way back to the US border. There I was met with antagonistic border guards yelling rapid fire accusatory questions at me. About 6 or 7 agents went through every inch of my car, with dogs. If they looked at the computer, I had visited Canada twenty+ times in the past without incident. Never been in trouble with the law. It was so disturbing it took me over ten years to return to Canada. Mind you, the Canadian border guard was great.
So, exactly 2 weeks after a huge national security event, you are baffled that you had trouble with US border guards with their pride stung??? You are a nit wit.
I have crossed the border a few times in my life. Maybe 30. It has been the same each time. Canada is welcoming. The us treats you like a criminal on the way back in.
@Guitarzen Sadly now due to lack of regulation in USA Canads biggest city Toronto is having a massive influx of American firearms that are being used in crimes.
I grew up in a border town in British Columbia. It was on the boarder with Idaho. Before 911 I crossed the border weekly to gas up and buy cigarettes. We would shop in Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint and Spokane. For the most part prior to 911 it was a benign experience. Occasionally you'd be searched which wasn't fun but it was tolerable. After 911 it became outright not worth it.
I haven't been to the States since about 2005
Years ago I worked at a tiny AM radio station in Massena NY. I sold ads to NY businesses and Canadian businesses. The border guard coming into Canada would chew the fat for a minute or two if they weren't busy and recommend a good coffee stop I hadn't visited yet. The U.S. border agents were complete pricks. Every time.
I would like to point out that the part of this video that is talking about the bank being closed is not on Campobello. I’m originally from Campobello & currently live on Grand Manan. That news segment from CHOCO TV is about the bank that closed this summer on Grand Manan Island. The man in the glasses speaking about the great island that’s losing their bank is my fiancé. He was talking about Grand Manan. So idk if you guys wanna fix that or not. If I’m not mistaken Campobello lost their bank years ago.
Grand Manan is a gem. Love it!
Opps... technical error. Just the same though. Grand Man-ma, opps, I mean Grand Manan is just a fisherman's cast away...
There is a lot they got wrong in the video.
Losing a bank is a BIG problem for a community.
Why is it that Hyder, AK is ALWAYS forgotten by articles like this. Hyder, AK is pretty much completely dependent upon Stewart, BC, even the school children go to Stewart, BC for their education. Stewart, BC also provides ALL emergency services, & infrastructure. Even the telephone area code for Hyder, AK uses the same one as Stewart, BC, in fact Hyder, AK is the ONLY location in Alaska that does not have a 907 area code.
And it's even weirder. Hyder is the only road access for Premier Mine in BC!
Needs a bridge to the US ? Or a ferry.
Just give it to Canada
@ Corinne M: it's a road - no bridge or ferry required.
There isn't even a US border patrol presence in Hyder. You can just wander right in. Coming back into Canada/Stewart, you do have to pass through Canada customs, however.
I think it was focussed on Canadian areas attached to the US, not vice versa. Looking at a map, It looks like Stewart BC is much more developed than Hyder, and nearby, so our governments likely coordinate efforts for schools and health care.
One potential problem with trading Campobello Island for Point Roberts is the difference in economical value between the two pieces of land. Campobello Island has a strong and valuable sea food industry. Fishing boundaries may change if Campobello Island became part of the USA.
And that's why it won't happen.
We'll trade them for Alaska.
Being so close to Vancouver, every house in Point Roberts would quadruple in value over night.
@@pepepepert Thr Russians want Alaska back as well. Don't know why, as electric cars need charging stations, which are not abundant in the wooded areas. Can't carry electricity in cans as well. Problematic.
They’re better off selling or buying parts off one another, if anything
You could do a whole video on dual citizens holding up their passports and talking about the pros and cons of their experience of being a citizen in both countries.
the pros would be obvious..i live by the border in St.Catharines by Niagara Falls...everythign in the USA is cheaper but they are really nazis nowadays when it comes to crossing the border ...food is cheaper, gas is cheaper eveyrthing is cheaper there than here..they pay about half what we pay in gas and we sell to them...also in an above comment i posted youd avoid customs fees when buying something american online ..which is pretty big fee depending on what you buy...i was going to buy soemthing for 55 dollar sonline fomr the USa then with shipping the conversion rate, it came out to 150 dollars not to mention the cutoms fees youd have to pay when it gets here..i bought a melting pot an had to pay 33 dollars custom fees when she delevered it to my house form the USa if i had a post offic ebox in the USA that fee gets avoided..it saves alot fo money benefits like those are worth it alone..
i also bought a pair of thsoe glasses for colour blind peopel as my dad is colour blind so i thought hed like them...they were posted at 300 dollars so i said ah wtf ill buy them anyway itd be worth it when the conversion rate happened ithey came out to 550 with the shipping but i bought them anyway then i had to pick them up at teh post office and there was 100 dollar customs fee so a pair of glasses listed at 300-350 bucks ended up costing me 600 dollars from all thsoe stupid fees of shipping and customs..150 dollar sjust for that shit...its a ripoff. meanwhile i can buy stuff form teh other side of the world aka China and get shipping free....it makes no sense
@@sonnyc3826 Also you don't have to buy your milk in bags when you get it in America.
Usually once you get out of the states you don't go back.
@@joemckim1183 Have too?
Roosevelt Campobello is not the only international park. Back in 1932, Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta and Glacier National Park in Montana formed a union as an international peace park that was achieved thanks to the efforts of the province's and state's rotary clubs. The effort took acts passed in Congress (approved by the US Senate in March 1932) and Parliament and Royal Assent (May 1932) for it to happen. The International Peace Garden between Manitoba and North Dakota was established in 1932 as well.
You are correct, it is not the only international park in the world. However it is the only one that works the way it does. It is equally owned, operated, funded and governed by both Canada and the USA. The park has citizens from both countries who work there, yet it sits solely on one country's land. Makibg it the only international park it's kind in the world.
i would think peace arch park would also be considered an international park. half is in canada & half is in the us, but anyone who visits the park can roam around freely. idk what the definition of an “international park” is though
And I believe one of those both citizens can technically enter both countries without a passport or a checkpoint. But don’t go outside the park or it’s considered an illegal entry.
It is the only Park in the world jointly owned and operated by two countries equally. Glacier is a completely different structure.
The last time we visited the The International Peace Gardens , we were camping at Adam lake in Manitoba . The park was a free zone for all Americans and Canadians , on exiting we went through US Customs to visit Dunseith North Dakota . And then Canada Customs on our way back .
Campobello has a special place in my heart. My grandmother grew up there (born in Machias,ME) so I wouldn't exist without it.
Wild! Glad you found the video
Without you guys, I would have never known about these unique places. Loving the content keep up the great work bois!
More to come!
@@OfftheCuff_Series The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good.
Borders divide people
Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact )
Borders hinder progress.
Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
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@@OfftheCuff_Series wish you would have pushed back on the forcing of putting a mask on in your own car but I understand how you didn’t want to cause an issue. But think about this, Canada has no legal mandate that says you have to mask up in your own car. He would not have been able to enforce this but I’m sure he’d be a dick about it
America is subjecting its citizens to this, not Canada... and Canada isn't about to give up its land.
The ferry to mainland NB from Campobello actually is currently privately run and has a contract for year round travel, weather permitting. It links to Deer Island which has a year round Government run ferry system.
Why not just build a bridge to deer island? It’d be cheaper than running a ferry to both in the long run. Besides, other islands do just fine without access to a bridge to the mainland, it’s just that Canada’s government has taken advantage of the fact that the island has a connection to the US as an excuse to ignore it, despite how impractical it is. Canada has thousands of islands which don’t have the luxury of a bridge connecting them to the mainland, but it chooses to ignore this island. If Deer Island and Grand Manan Island can manage, then so can Campobello. The latter even has its own airport!
@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 I am Canadian and the Canadian government doesn't prioritise infrastructure megaprojects, though we pay high taxes like Denmark. Canada hasn't built a massive bridge since the 1997 (Confederation Bridge, New Brunswick). Taxes goes to "universal healthcare" which are understaffed overcapacity hospitals.
@@Andrew-gn9qp If the New Brunswick provincial government or the Canadian federal government does not care about the islands all that much to connect it to the Canadian mainland, and if they are okay with just leaving the island connected to Maine only, then the Canadian government should just consider seceding the island to Maine.
If Canada does not consider it worthwhile to invest in the infrastructure for the island, they can afford to lose the island. What about the residents of the island? - the provincial/federal government of Canada should have been considering that question long time ago, but it seems like they don't care. Because if they did, they would have cared to work out a solution to connect the island to the mainland whether it is by a regular government run ferry system or by a bridge.
@@thepunisher2988 same applies to the US lol. Northwest angle could have some bridge to connect to Mainland USA but it doesn't make economical sense considering the low population.
Hey guys, listen I ' ve got a crazy 3rd idea to add: Make Campobello an independent nation, it can be a tiny island nation and with the help of donations build parliament and government buildings and run itself without the U.S. and Canada, maybe it could absorb other, smaller islands around it? 🤨
My favorite geographic oddity in North America is the small overseas collectivity of St Pierre and Miquelon. It's the last remaining remnant of the once vast New France (for those who don't know, what's now Quebec, Atlantic Canada, the Canadian Prairies, and the American Midwest). France got to keep St Pierre and Miquelon after the Seven Years' War because Britain granted them fishing rights along the Newfoundland coast. But the islands have been exchanged between Britain and France many times throughout its history where Britain kept destroying French settlements (like they did in response to France supporting American revolutionaries).
The islands were finally resettled by France in 1816 with Basques, Bretons, and Normans. You can see the flags of these three ethnic groups on the unofficial St. Pierre and Miquelon flag and their official coat of arms (which honestly, their flag is pretty cool).
You forgot Louisiana and parts of other gulf states.
Newfoundland was not part of Canada then.
@@dixondavies Nope, Newfoundland and Labrador became an official province in 1949!
Happy to see that you took my advice and looked into Campobello Island! Great job!
Thanks Jay! Really appreciate you reaching out with that suggestion
Went down a rabbit hole on this one... less than 1000 people live on this island... there is year round ferry service for nearby Deer and Grand Manon islands, but for some reason Campobello doesn't get winter ferry service because it's "too dangerous"?... and even if there was year-round ferry service to Canada, the bridge link to the US creates two "trade-off" choices for residents: it's either a short drive to Lubec, which is right next door but problematic because of the border (with Homeland tensions and ever-changing policies)... or a long ferry haul into Canada just to get services, to shop, or to get gas. (Border issues aside, the folks of Campobello appear to have more shopping options available because of Lubec than the other two islands.)
As for a land swap, I can see three options for residents: a) sell your property to the "new" country for fair market value and then move to the mainland of your home country; b) keep your property and your existing citizenship, essentially becoming a foreign owner in the new country (making you subject to existing visa laws and conditions), or; c) keep your property and simply become a citizen of the new country. Given how small and sparsely populated these enclaves are, I can see why any action on the part of either country is such a low priority. Until there is a "real" reason to spend the money necessary to make land swaps, it's just easier (and cheaper) to let it remain as it is.
For the interim, you'd think slightly-modified Nexus passes and passports would be enough to provide less hassle for pre-screened residents?
can’t explain why but that 💯 sounds like a settled island that long ago moved the indigenous people to other islands :P
I just came across this channel clearly this is my first video of yours that I watched! The fact that you pack your suitcase, the way you did in the video “I know it’s not legit” but tossing the dog into it that was awesome!
Glad you found us :)
I'm sure a bridge could be built from Campobello to Deer Island, using Cherry Island and Indian Island. Then another bridge from Deer Island to L'Etete on the mainland. Campobello would then be a little over an hour's drive from Saint John.
I'm sure the residents of the communities on these islands would prefer that solution, but nobody is going to greenlight a series of hugely expensive bridges like that in such a sensitive marine ecosystem. The sensible solution should be improved and reliable ferry service to NB and administrative leeway at the international border.
You mean where the two ferries already go? Granted Deer Island to Campobello one is seasonal.
@@v0n1b0 Yes, replace the ferry service with bridges.
I love your videos about US-CAN border absurdities! You should also have a look into the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation wich is spread between New York state and Ontario and Quebec provinces. The Canadian part of the reserve is completely isolated from the rest of the country.
You At 5:34 is the artist's depiction of the Battle of Ridgeway of June 1866. Irish American veterans of the US Civil War (hence the IRA flag) invaded Fort Erie and fought the Queen's Own Rifles at Ridgeway. The original painting is at the Fort Erie Museum along with a collection of works depicting the events by the same artist.
5:05 If we define Native Americans as any indigenous group that lives in the Americas, then the Greenlandic Inuit are the easternmost. There are also a few more eastern tribes such as the Beothuk (extinct tribe from Newfoundland) and Mi'kmaq (from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula)
Solution: Have the island join the DPRK instead. We'll build a gas station, supermarkets, and they'll be able to connect to the rest of the DPRK if we build an airport and have Air Koryo flights to Pyongyang daily. Not to mention the DPRK has universal healthcare and taxes have been abolished here since 1974. If they don't want to be American, then I'm sure they'll be willing to support a nation that stands their ground against the US and put my smiling face all over the place.
Will this mean that you guys would normalize relations with us?
Most people living in America are native now.
@@lookoutforchrisno honey, stop being cute with literal definitions
Were the danes not in greeland before the inuit? atleast the eastern side.
Kim ! You know just what to say ❤ :) I gotta try to fly with Air Koryo one day :)
The two hour trip to a Timmy's is the most egregiously un-Canadian thing about the entire situation!
I know! Thats not a sign of Canadian pride, just idiocy! Someone tell them boys that Tim Hortons is NOT a Canadian company!
I live in a small town in BC , we just got are first Timmy's all we got were a new group of Canadians that don't speak English,
they didn't hire one white kid from the town, Fudge Timmy's
And a trade of this island with America for say....Point Roberts will never happen when you consider that there's a pretty good fishing market that Canada would be giving up that they won't get from Point Roberts.
OMG, You guys did it, I'm so happy rn (I recommended this topic a couple of months ago)
Thanks for bringing this fascinating place to our attention!!
@@OfftheCuff_Series The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good.
Borders divide people
Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact )
Borders hinder progress.
Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
Why not use the solution used in Hyder, AK as well as in many European jurisdictions which are on the EU outer border; such as Busingen, Northern Ireland, Ceuta and Melilla and Campione 'd Italia; move the customs border. Point Roberts would then become part of BC for customs purposes, Angle Inlet part of MB and Campobello part of Maine.
This is the probably the best solution. A customs agreement.
American guns and Canadian weed.
Another interesting one. Subscribed. Now start pumping out some more vids! Lol. Watching from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
People generally don't want to switch countries just because they live in an geographically odd place . Both countries should sit down and discuss how they can make situations like this seamless as possible.
Make it a co-territory and make everyone a dual citizen.
@@MS-ii1sv Fuck that .
@@jackfishcampbell6745 Okay well give it to the US then if the government is going to leave them high and dry like they are.
@@MS-ii1sv I give up .
@@jackfishcampbell6745 - Either compromise OR move.
Make Point Roberts and Angle Inlet part of Canada (they are geographically connected to Canada by actual landmass) and Campobello Island part of the US (they aren't geographically connected to either but the only bridge in and out of the place connects to the US not Canada). Problem solved. Some individuals might initially object but at the end of the day it would make almost every aspect of their lives easier and cheaper (regardless of which nation they switch to). However, I admire the possible ferry solution too as a workaround if they're ever able to get it to become year round... but imho those borders really oughta be fixed.
The angle has belonged to us since the Revolution, and is an Indian reservation, plus it’s way bigger
How about No
How about the Canadians sell BC and Manitoba to the USA. There problem solved.
You know what actually why doesn’t all of Canada just join the USA, after all Canadians have literally no national identity or culture other than “not being American 🇺🇸❌”. The only real difference is those frenchies in Quebec, other than that Canadians are carbon copies of Americans.
@@RevolutionaryGuitar they are carbon copies of the northeast and left coast
They have nothing in common with the South except language
@@jonathanwilliams1065 that’s what I said. I just simplified it to “Americans” instead of saying “Minnesotans” and “Washingtonians” either way Canadians don’t have a national identity and they don’t have a culture that is unique to Canada.
Hey fellas. Great videos! Another interesting place is St Pierre and Miquelon France. Off the south of Newfoundland.
They probably had amomg the worse situations during the Pandemic. I would want to know how it happened.
@@keiths81ca St Pierre et Miquelon are not dependant on Canada. They have all the basic services in the islands and they are supplied directly from mainland France by air and sea like all other isolated France territories. The local economy really suffered from the lack of touristes tho
@@Potato-dx5mc what medical services require them to travel to Canada?
I don't think you will see any Canadian giving up sovereign territory, no matter how challenging it is to maintain. Just watched a video on the Canadian Rangers and the challenges they face in the far north. Canada loves a challenge and Campobello is Canadian. In reality it helps both Canadians and Americans relate to and understand each other. I see a way, in this, for both Americans & Canadians to understand that they have important connections as North Americans. We are both citizens of something bigger, North America.
Thats b.s. there is nothing Canadian and nothing USA. You need to relate to reconciliation and land back, and give it back to the Passamaquoddy people and relate and understand land back and reconciliation and that you are all guests and they are your hosts
@@voidremoved It ain't yours, buddy.
@@voidremoved bruh ._.
@@voidremoved There is a reason there is the truth and reconciliation act in Canada. Indigenous people don't want their land back, they just want to be treated with respect and recognized that they were here first. First Nations people were not against foreigners, modernizing, or learning. What they're against is being force assimilated into a culture that isn't their own, forced off their home, and treated like lower class society.
Now of course there are indigenous people who may have been hard against modernization and others who were more okay with it. However, the main thing is the British, Spanish and rest of Europe coming to NA did help modernize the western hemisphere of the world. It needed to happen at some point, it just should've been handled a hell of a lot better.
If not England/Spain/France it would have been Russia/Japan/China.
Combine CANADA & US and create a new country called “ Canmerica”. XD
I used to live in Lubec and the border crossing was extremely easy for both sides. Then the border folks went nuts. Ridiculous.
Its pretty easy now when I drive over from St Stephen to Campobello. It was just really because of the Pandemic.
Canada: We own this island so would you mind staying off?
US: Here, hold my American flag!
Never new about this! Thanks for posting! I subscribed!!
Welcome!
Beautiful area at least. Probably on a first name basis with the border guards. :)
I recently went to Lubec Maine I live in Michigan, I E-biked across the bridge to the Campabello island. I only live about 30 mins from the Windsor tunnel in Detroit and the bridge and this was the only bridge I was told I could bike across.
“This Canadian island has no connection to Canada”
Mf, I don’t think any island has a connection to Canada, that’s the whole point of an island 💀
they should just build a bridge to canada
@@insertcognomen They would have to build multiple bridges via multiple islands
Well, its confusing because American islands are always connected to the mainlaind by land.
I mean, there's the Fox Islands, Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, (East) Pen Island...
Manhattan is an island. It connects to the rest of America. So does long island. So does staten island. It's called bridges.
Just curious how they dealt with lack of gasoline, groceries and basically everything during the Covid border closure and the ferry-less winter?
Those are considered essential travel. Also, as the video discussed, most residents are dual citizens. Border closures didn't apply to citizens
Ironically, Point Roberts has the most gas pumps per capita than any other place in the world.
Islanders are great at stocking up, canning food, freezing garden veg and fruit, I lived on an island, we had a woodstove and a furnace, I canned and froze everything, we had 2 freezers, we were well stocked for winter, 1 year I never left the house for the month of Feb. If you were desparate for something the mailman would bring it from the village on a snowmobile.
@@e-curb you are correct. 78 pumps not including the Marina. Mostly serving tax dodging Canadians
We had an essential travel exemption at the beginning, however Biden revoked that January 15th 2022. The USA borders are still closed to the unvaccinated so if you are not a duel citizen and are not vaccinated you are pretty much stranded.
There are lots of Island communities in Canada, (maybe not attached to the US) but only accesible by ferry, except when the weather turns bad, I lived on one for 18 years, it's a whole different way of life.
I live on an island on the west coast of Canada. If I had to clear US security every time I wanted to go off-island, I would move...
God forbid politicians use common sense to make exceptions for the local citizens. 🙄
2:54 bro just casually going double the speed limit to get some gas
“ Drive very carefully to the nearest gas station. “
Drives 105 mph lmao
lol @8:17 that's a protest for the closure of the only bank on Grand Manan Island not Campobello
How I already said in comments about Point Roberts and the NorthwestAnkle: the American and Canadian Governments make it way to complicate to find exceptions for those places.
In Europe we make it easier: Büsingen for example just belongs by customs to Switzerland, and when Switzerland closed the borders to Germany there was in the begin no exception for Büsingers to go to Germany. But this way it made way more sence than guarding the Swiss/Büsingen border.
Made easy? You mean after centuries of wars over territories?
@@elifuentes7070 Switzerland and centuries of war?
@@elifuentes7070 gonna need you to read some books homie
@@gregorbenediktmanfredliedt2034 Ah yes because it's not like Switzerland got invaded by France in 1798. Nope
It was the US who made things difficult, especially since 9/11. I'm pretty sure the Canadian side wouldn't want to made any change if the US didn't enforce their border.
7:00 - A Canadian mom would still birth a U.S. citizen, if she gave birth in Maine. Just to make sure people don't get the wrong idea with the park ranger saying "Back Then..."
I was looking for this! I was like, "WHEN did we end birthright citizenship??? I still see people complain about it on the internet!"
@@karyon1007 - I'm always worried that people will take something they hear in a RUclips video as completely factual. The Fourteenth Amendment has not been repealed.
@@pacificostudios Yeah, I definitely looked it up to reassure myself, but for a second my brain short-circuited.😆 I was just scrolling the comments hoping that someone else had caught it, too!
@@karyon1007birthright citizenship is still in the 14th Amendment, Section 1. The child might not be considered natural born without parents of US citizenship because of the definition of natural born from The Law of Nations (by Emer de Vattel) that the US founders used as a reference for other terms and presumably this one. Thus, the child would be a US citizen at birth but ineligible to be president or vice president of the US.
“The guy that was in charge of drawing the boundaries for this area was drunk” LOL 😂
its shocking that basically the whole of Europe managed to deal with issues like this, with open borders, but US exceptionalism seems to stop it being possible between the US and Canada. What a ridiculous situation.
As an ex resident of Point Roberts wa I feel their pain, when we delivered fed ex ground, i was required to open every package and manifest it for Canada and us customs,So I knew what everyone had in their parcels, ypu lose your freedoms.
thats absurd canadians are silly
Canadians want the American money and American jobs but they want to be British otherwise except for the Quebecois who want to be French!
That must have been fun if a package contained a percussion revolver. Percussion firearms are not regulated in Washington State.
@@gotsloco1810 We leave the pkg. at the depot, it's all about Canadian federal laws.
@@aheat3036 Usonians want Chinese to starve but want Canada to be loyal. The Usonians want Middle East loyalty but kill their kids and fuel extremism. They cry china is hurting Africa yet china has helped them more while usa uses kids for cobalt.
This is the problem with simply drawing the border in a straight line. Harris island is and island, and really could go either way, but Point Roberts I think would be easier for travel and logistics to just integrate into Canada, since that's where the land access is.
Having sold items on the internet to both the United States and Canada, from the United States, I can tell you that it wouldn't be such a big problem with customs, except for the fact that Canadian customs model themselves on the Soviet Union. They are awful, reject things for this smallest thing and sometimes make Canadians come pick things up from the border, even if the recipient lives a hundred miles away. At the end of that business, I stopped selling to Canada altogether.
You may think Canada rejects imports for the smallest thing, but that could be a small thing that involves treaties with several other countries and could have been the compromise to end a war.
Also, the US is well known for causing goods to sit at the port of entry for MONTHS waiting to be released. Even when the shipment is from known facilities and using reputable border handling agents. It is common for multimillion dollar shipments to be delayed while the people to complete the installation are on business travel just waiting.
The government will release the shipment when they release it....or they won't.
International trade is complicated in the best of times. It is not something for amateurs to experiment with unless you have a thorough understanding of what you are doing before you conduct the first transaction.
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 I agree. A lot of countries don't set up heavy obstacles, though. Canada and Italy were my pet peeves.
2:54 did y’all just record yourselves braking the speed limit 😂
"The only International Park in the world"
This is simply not true. There are a bunch of other examples in the US and Canada alone, including ones that are similarly jointly managed, like Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park.
Also, "back when you automatically got US citizenship for being born there". This is still the case.
"You don't know day to day what you can bring across the border." Yes you do. It's completely and thoroughly laid out by the CBSA. The administrator has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
"Poutine" is pronounced with an emphasis on the second syllable, not first.
i live in St stephen NB and work on campobello isalnd as a lobster fisherman. I have to drive trough the US to go to work. Proud to be apart of the wacky situation
Lubec is one of the most beautiful towns in Maine. Forever proud. The small village of Estcourt Station on the northwest border of Maine is an oddity as well. You can only access it by way of crossing the border at Fort Kent and head west across New Brunswick/Quebec.
We need a Schengen style border with Canada
I think that would cause severe drama regarding our southern border.
Treadeau would lose his shit as Canadians would all shop 100% in the US to avoid sky high Canadian taxes.
@@lakorai2 The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good.
Borders divide people
Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact )
Borders hinder progress.
Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
What we need is a solid tall WALL between states so we wouldn’t receive flood of illegals from your side.
North Americans do not understand and would not accept the invasion of privacy required to permit the implementation of a Schengen Treaty. There is no need for European countries to inspect passports at the border because they are tracked every time anyone changes their place of residence. Europeans have always known that their movements were monitored on a daily basis by the police. Modern technology has made this more efficient. Most hotels now scan your passport or national identity card at the front desk, which updates the national database, and your identification is immediately returned. If the hotel does not have a scanner your identification is held at the front desk until a government agent can scan it. North Americans are used to only having to present proof of the ability to pay. North American hotels do not even record driver's licenses. Neither Canada nor the United States even has a national photo identification card. Neither Canada nor the United States would give up the right to control who has permission to work within the country.
I went to Campobello island by Canada.. you take the ferry from L'etete to Deer Island, and from Deer Island to Campobello Island.
0:03 The goofy sound FX is my ringone! i checked my phone and was so confused
I believe fishing rights make up a large part of the problem regarding Campobello Island. The owner of the island has international fishing rights extending out into the very rich fishing grounds.
The American fishing lobby has powerful friends in Washington and desperately wants that fishing territory that currently belongs to Canada.
We need not trade our country for the convenience of a few whiners. A bridge or two can be built connecting the islands. They should petition their representatives or find somewhere else to live. This is a part of CANADA and should remain so.
I disagree with the notion that whoever drew the border did it that way because they were stupid and/or drunk because the problems identified in the video are things that the people who originally drew the borders probably could not even have imagined. Back then, it was probably easy to travel to the island from Canada since boats were probably the fastest mode of transportation around and were much more common than they are now. The modern concept of borders just didn't exist back then. Gas stations, the modern grocery store, etc. likewise did not exist and were not invented until generations after the borders were drawn.
By this logic…Canada should own Alaska 🤔 Alaska is in no way connected to the US…in fact an American has to travel, drive almost 3000km through Canada to get to Alaska.
Maybe we should ask for a % of all that 2,000,000 lbs of gold mined from Alaska 🤔 …The US got a hell of a deal , about $140 million in today’s dollars.
During the pandemic US citizens would say they were going to Alaska and end up in Banff, and Tofino on Vancouver Island.
@@steveleeart Even a few in Toronto!
@@CanImperator they were clearly just lost I mean nobody deliberately goes to Toronto 🤪
That's why Alaska has Alaska airlines winch is coincidentally bigger than air Canada
Off the Cuff, this was a great video with lots of explanations of some knotty problems. On a side note, may I point out a few things? First of all, Utrecht is pronounced YOU-treked; then the tribe is
pass-uh-muh-QUAD-ee, and finally, the Canadian dish you ate is poo-TEEN. Also, in case you're interested in an idea for another town (American this time) which is cut off the the rest of the country, it's Hyder, AK: Hyder is in the Panhandle, or Southeast, which is otherwise served by the State Ferry System, but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road; US mail flown from Ketchikan.
nope. Poo-tsin. not English pronunciation poo-teen. correct yourself before correcting others. et moi je suis du Quebec. m'astine pas
@@linebrunelle1004, OK, but isn't Canada bilingual, i.e., both pronunciation are acceptable? We make allowances for Hispanics when they pronounce Chicago with an 'sh' instead of the correct 'ch'.
@@linebrunelle1004, I'm not exactly certain how I "set you off", but it certainly wasn't my intent. Have a good day.
Campobello has been completely cut off from the Canadian government for years. For decades its police force was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police under a Provincial contract instead of a federal one. The RCMP closed its doors and now if you need the police, they have to travel from St. Stephen or elsewhere through the USA for nearly an hour by car to get to the island. The Province of NB doesn't care because the island isn't French. No, gas, no food, no police and no year round ferry. The Canadian government gives away billions of dollars to other countries but couldn't be bothered to fund a year round ferry system from Deer Island to Campobello island for a tiny fraction of that amount. Maybe if the Island was a Native Reservation things would be different and the public would be outraged like they should be!
It's not too far to build a bridge to Canada. Sure, it'd be a lot longer than the bridge that goes to the USA. It might even have to be a 2-part bridge, making an intermediate stop at the other Canadian Island just next to it. But it would fix the issues. And probably revive the fortunes of the town.
Build a bridge? That’ll take 20 years! China could do it in 2.
They could move off the island
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Yeah but that's not the point, is it?
I think the Canadian govt. should purchase these enclaves/islands. Would be good for Canadian P.R., same with the Caribbean islands that want to join Canada like Jamaica for instance.
@@Chronzilla062794 You can't simply purchase it, then USA can go ahead and purchase Nova Scotia & Brunswick..
I support this island ! Living close to Canada but in the United States, I understand this frustration. This island is now on my list to visit !
Well, I think the case of Campobello is a much easier one to resolve compared to the other two conflicts. For the other two, a buyout seems to be the only way out but for Campobello, it is a solid single island that is closer to the US and it has other islands towards the Canadian water/soil which bridges can be built to its mainland, of course, at a price. I get why the residents of Campobello are demanding ferry service for such a long time. Because it makes the most sense as of now.
If anything the provincial government has been very generous to the Island. Probably half the Island's work is government positions. Roosevelt International Park and Herring Cove Provincial Park. RCMP, Ambulance, Customs, Fisheries, School. I am sure there are more not off the top of my head.
The ferry is privately owned and was subsidized by the government during the pandemic and ran all year round. For most of the trips during the winter the Ferry ran empty, it was often faster and more convenient to drive around than to use it, and very weather dependent. This winter will be the first one in three years that it won't run. The Committee for the Year Round Ferry is also closely tied with Stephanie that you interviewed.
The clips of the bank closure wasn't on Campobello Island. Our Scotia Bank left in the early 2000's and the Credit Union that replaced it left 5-8 years later. Due to other reasons.
The Pandemic and Border Closure was strange but not deal breaking. Campobello Residents had exemptions when crossing for Essentials (gas, medical, hardware, grocery) the checking of vaccination and ArriveCan app was the same as for airports. If anything we of the Island were given more freedoms than most of the Mainland and got a lot more bitter looks if people knew you were from the Island.
Most of the food restrictions would effect any border town. You can't bring certain things across due to multiple reasons.
If anything you have to deal with isolation on this Island. When new people come to Campobello, I tend to ask "Can you live in your own head?" if they say Yes, they will be fine. the ones that say No, are usually gone within the year. A lot of people don't get that concept when they move here without doing any research. It is a small isolated island with less than 1000 year round residents. It is quiet. We like it that way.
Lots of weird things along the Canada/US border. I always thought that Alaska should belong to Canada, too.
They need a ferry and a real ramp. The tiny road that you wait for the ferry on is too small. I launched my boat at this ramp at low tide and got stuck in the gravel. Luckily some fisherman pulled me out or I would have watched my SUV submerge in an hour. It ust to be great fishing in the area until the draggers, gillnetters, and purseseiners wrecked it. It's a beautiful island. The provincial park is very nice.
they need a real port.
There's a number of these on both sides of the border. Canada and USA should simply perform a land swap in all cases.
There is a ferry that runs between Campobello and Deer Island.Not to mention Campobello isn't a city it is just a Rural Community.
I died when you packed the bag and threw dog in haha
9:09, if Canada built a bridge to Canada this would not be a story.
You are never 'forced' to go anywhere. You choose to live where you do.
Forced by political or financial reasons are very common
For example go choose to live in PyongYang then choose to come back
getting to choose where you live is a luxury that some people don't get.
@@ecogreen123 Tell that to millions of migrants walking for weeks and months all over the world today. They had nothing and they still realize that they have choices about where to live. You could learn something from them.
Not if you’re a child and not if you have so much invested that it’s ruinous to walk away.
@@airhabairhab You are never forced to go anywhere.
Same thing happens in Point Roberts in the US that borders Tsawwassen in BC Canada. People in the US are completely surrounded by the ocean on three sides. Only way they can get in or out is to cross into Canada. To get back to the US they have to drive about an hour through Canada back to Washington State border.
I have a question, you mentioned that many people on the island are dual citizens because there's no hospital on the island, but one of the people you interviewed mentioned universal health care, how does that work? Do Canadians on the island carry American health insurance or does the Canadian government pay for the services they receive in the US?
Bit of both. It's not completely clear cut.
The Canadian government prefers to kill patients rather than do anything for them these days
@@jonathanwilliams1065 are you a Canadian? Why do you say that, has something happened recently?
@@jasonfarmer7672 well when a Canadian disabled veteran and Paralympic medalist wanted a chair lift she was instead offered assisted suicide
Her case is not unique
@@jonathanwilliams1065 wow that is insane, I remember reading something the other day about how they were making assisted suicide available to depressed young adults with no other medical conditions, that is insane. I am not completely against assisted suicide, but I think that almost everyone can agree that offering suicide to a healthy depressed young adult with no other medical conditions is insane....... This is what happens when you make the state responsible for your health care, you can't be angry when the state tries to tell you how to live (and when to die) when they are footing the bill for your health care.
I've never heard a Canadian say timmy ho's in my life
I enjoyed hearing the views from the people who live there.
The fact that the USA and Canada do not manage to set up something comparable to the EU with freedom of travel, etc. is a damning indictment.
You can blame 9/11 for that.
its because the US for the last 50-55 years has become increasingly insular, rather than integrating with the world around it.
personally, i'd either set up dual ferry service (when one is coming, the other is going) and have it at least twice daily (four times would be preferable, early morning, afternoon, evening and night) even if the government has to run it at a loss...
or trade the town for an awkwardly place american town/city (like Point Roberts, which would then become part of B.C. which its directly connected to, and not the US which it has to access by a ferry or by similarly driving roughly 40km to access the BC-Washington border) if the residents of that town and the other town in question agree by a vote.
That was the case 20 years ago. But governments needed people to live in fear of open borders.
Not so simple, guns, very few Canadians want the American gun culture here. In fact the majority of Americans don't want it either according to the polls, but are restricted by a right wing court decision to interpet their second amendment ignoring part of of it and overturning many years of precident. Additionally it would allow the import of massively subsidized American food products like eggs and dairy who also have less restrictive health regulations. Those conditions do not exist in the EU. Obviously by the name the EU is a union. 92% of Canadians oppose any union with the US.
@@jonmce1 There is also freedom of travel between EU countries and non-EU countries, e.g., Sweden (EU) and Norway (non-EU).
Why can't the border with Mexico be controlled as rigorously?
It is even more
Im not responding to your gasligjting anymore. Nobody is that misinformed...your trying to push false narratives
Your poor grammer screams Russian troll farm
Cause those are potential voters.
@@CurlousCam What did it take you to register to vote and then to actually vote?
There are very limited benefits for Canadians to illegally stay in the US. On the other hand, the Mexican border is purposefully maintained in its current state. The US economy relies on a large number of low wage workers who aren't in a position to negotiate for better working conditions. Employers who employ undocumented workers are rarely prosecuted and little is done to prevent repeat offenders from recrossing the border. Both major political supporters have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and neither has done anything effective when they hold power. American's spent billions building a wall that had little effect on the numbers, while a law penalizing employers of illegals never made it to the floor.
@@hzwanepol6947 I wish the US HAD spent billions on border security.
Special bi-national travel documents for residents of such places?
Already exists , the Nexus card
Bruh!! This was amazing for sure. Great to know we could all do something about the boat thing. There are other charity sites
This is the same situation in the Vancouver area for a small US town called Point Robert’s. It completely closed off from the rest of the US. So if you live here and go to Washington State, which it is part of, you actually have to leave the US, drive through Canada and then go back into the US.
They just mentioned that.
@@cfltheman I guess I should have watched the full video. 🤣
5:05 not true :D there were a few more eastern tribes such as the Beothuk ( extinct ) and Mi'kmaq ( im part Mi'kmaq ) Canada doesn't really like to give us any credit though, and neither do the other native tribes for that matter, My guess is because we so easily integrated with the europeans, thankfully making residential schools not so much a problem for our tribe as others, as our schools were already mixed. Some of us had to fight with the government to get our status cards, while most of us still never got any recognition of native heritage.
The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good.
Borders divide people
Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact )
Borders hinder progress.
Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
In quebec, we learn a bit about the Mi'kmaq people, but not enough
Were you going 105 MPH?
Just goes to show how dumb our politicians really are. They don't live normal lives like us.
@3:38 so what I'm hearing is there's a good business opportunity to get a ferry service going.
I've got a lot of family history in Point Roberts, would be sad to see the place switch countries if it ever did. It's actually a pretty cool little community there. Or at least last time I was there back in the late 90s for my great-grandfather's funeral at the Point Roberts Cemetery it was.
Actually looking at a map, the island is farther north than much of Nova Scotia, and it falls completely within a line connecting the mainland of Canada to southern NS, making it NOT an anomaly sticking out oddly. Being an island hasn't prevented PEI from being part of Canada. The only usual feature here is its relative closeness to US mainland vs Canada mainland, so travel to the US is more convenient. By the same argument one could argue in favour of Alaska becoming part of Canada. The solution as noted in the video: Provide better options for direct travel to the Canadian mainland.
the USA can have Campobello for alaska
@@129das The Alaskans would immediately vote to leave
@@appa609 and they're taking BC with 'em.
@@appa609 - Nah they wouldn't, I've heard many say they identify with Canadians because of the climate and culture that comes with it.
@@tiffaniterris2886Alaska is a state so it can’t leave, you’d need the same approval you’d get for passing an amendment for it to leave. Also it’s right next to Russia, no way they’d give it up.
in the border disputes with the US and in treaties, Canada usually lost a lot more than it gained, so as a Canadian i would hate to give up another acre of our land, of course i dont live on the island. Its probably a great place, for cottages anyway, and slow paced living, a very special place, so enjoy, everyone is so uptight nowadays.
How it lost.
@@aiwwakk7152 Alaska panhandle near BC. Huge border dispute.
@@korytoombs886 No border dispute today at all, It belongs to USA..
I was born in NB, now living in Alberta. I know one thing for certain: if it ever becomes apparent that Campobello Island is imminently and undeniably destined to join the US I will be immediately taking up residence on Campobello in anticipation of my up-coming US citizenship.
Canada - thanks in large part to uninformed, indoctrinated and clueless voters (like the lady near the end of the video) over a span of the last 60 years - has become a communist hell-hole. There is no longer any hope for saving CanaChinaZuela.
But there's still hope to save the US from the same fate given its constitution and better-informed/well-armed majority of citizens. As an American citizen we'd be in a much better position to do our part both at the polls and within their military to keep totalitarianism chained up in the basement where it belongs.
@richardschiffman6418 sadly, you are correct about Canada.
I think Richard exaggerates when he compares CDN bureaucracy to PRC. Zeus is funny about how Canada is close to totalitarian state, whereas USA is apparently free. Which country is suffering from an ex president who is still trying to overthrow the constitution and govern as a dictator? Not Canada. I suspect both of you are anti-vaxxers.
@@oldpossum57 It appears one of us is a political idiot, but it's neither me nor Richard.
Both Canada and the US are under attack by totalitarian globalist parasitic elites hell-bent on genocide and enslavement of those they allow to continue with the ability to fog a mirror. The difference is that the US is proving to be a much tougher nut to crack thanks to a larger population percentage of informed and patriotic citizens backed by a stronger constitution. CanaChinaZuela on the other hand is a much softer target for them. There's still hope for the US. Canada, Europe and Australia, not so much. Thanks for coming out though. You may go now.
I took the video of the Campobello ferry! 👋 Great video, very informative
I didn't know this without your video, Thanks.
Canada will get Point Roberts when they pry it from our cold , dead hands!
Signed by the “Don’t Make Us Build a Higher Fence Committee.”
😂🤣😂🤣 I'm like Sitting Bull, 'the buffalo tastes the same both sides of the border, I just choose to live on the North side.
dont let canada take it and im saying that as a Canadian...look at tsawwassen real estate vs Pt Roberts real estate prices...Pt Roberts is a gem...only negative is the amerikkkan border guards...if canada gets a hold of this place they will develop it until there is nothing left...our corporate owned govts should be protecting us from this but they are right involved in the absolute disguting greed. all about money..people,and the environment don't matter anymore to corps and corp governments...they are limp to stop any destructive corp activity.
@@Dirka41 If you think it is different down South, give your head a shake.😂😎
@@carlthor91 The Internet and Air Travel are bringing the worlds people together more and more which is good.
Borders divide people
Borders create tensions between people - ( you only need to read some of the comments here to prove this fact )
Borders hinder progress.
Just imagine the big playground that we all would have if there was no border between America and Canada.
@@John-nc4bl - You are spreading globalist propaganda.
This will blow your mind but Canada is IN America 😉
Was thinking the same thing. I also don't have to tell you but for others so is Greenland and all countries in the Caribbean and South America too.
If your a native English speaker it's not.
@@Kingofspaids it's still America lol. North America and South America are just regions lol....Both have America in the name for a reason 😉
@@jasongill5390 How do I say this respectfully, North america is a continent and so is South America, they aren't joint but separate If your talking about both pluraly then It's the America's with an S. Nationality wise when your referring to someone from the United State of america their nationality is American as it's well known, Half the world is taught that so when a Canadian says they're not American it's because they aren't. They may be North American but not American as taught in certain educational systems around the world. So when you say they're wrong your simply wrong because people are taught different continent models around the world.
@@Kingofspaids do u know why North America and South America as the word America in it? Key word in both continents is AMERICA.
The whole continent was called America before 😉.....half the world teaches u that North America and South America are one America. Go anywhere in South America and u will see.
Hell in Mexico they have football teams with the name America lol.
I'm Canadian as well btw. I get why South America embraces the name America and Christopher Columbus. On the flip side I also understand why Canadians don't celebrate America or Columbus.
In my opinion, the US and Canadian border should just be open like that of the EU member nations. This would resolve a lot of issues for these communities and other things. This also solves the issues of the towns that are split down the middle by the border. For the US side if the border is so important then they would secure our southern border which wide slam open. So, let's open the Northern border.
After 9/11 the US government would never try something risky like that
@@mutedunknown2734If you cross the US Canada border, you’d realize there’s no danger in it at all. The US is just more of an extreme right wing nation than the Canadians would want to do this with.
@@Balibaliadashi It's like there is no right and left in Canada.
I think the solution in both cases is a customs union where Pt Roberts becomes part of Canada's customs area and Campobello Island becomes part off the US customs area. This would make border checks be only immigration checks while goods could flow freely back and forth. However this would also mean that there would be a customs check on the ferry from New Brunswick to Campobello island and you could take a boat or plane from Pt Roberts to the mainland US without clearing customs first. So there would still be frustrating border issues but they would move from the more common land crossings to the less common air/sea crossings.
Trading cities is fine, but we could also open up borders between USA and Canada. Let's create a "Schengen area" of Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, and the Bahamas.
I remember visiting Campobello just prior to 2009. We needed our birth certificates for the border crossing but nothing more. It's pretty for sure! The barges were pretty great.
I still couldn't understand why two countries with a similar living standard and culture couldn't have an open border. In the EU people from different cultures can cross their borders with no hassle at all.
Drug, human trafficking is way easier without border (trust me because most slave go to EU) and criminal are instead localized, instead of being able to go amywhere at anytime they are limited in it
Would make it easier for firearms traffickers to bring illegal firearms to Canada
Not far from here there is an American island that is illegally occupied by Canada’s park service
USA illegally occupies land all over the world. The island you are referring to was first occupied by the UK to build a vital lighthouse to protect shipping going to and from Canadian ports. It was, is and always will be part of Canada.
@@stevegoad4133 no we do not
I’m pretty sure our only territorial dispute is with Canada
@@jonathanwilliams1065 LOL how did Hawaii become USA property? Do you think Mexican people like the fact that half of their country was taken in a war of conquest started deliberately by the USA? I could go on.
@@stevegoad4133If that's the case then Canada should not exist at all, since it is the result of conquering of territories by Britain and French.
@@stevegoad4133 You could say that about every inch in Canada too because all your land is from British & French colonialism and occupation..
Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods, Ontario-Minnesota border is another similar problem...
There is anothe quirk in the border with Hyder, Alaska (USA). It is a very remote little town which is cut off from the anything "American". The towns' people have to cross into Canada to purchase food and other life support items from Stewart, BC (Canada). If I am not mistaken, even Canadian Mounties go into Hyder to see how things are getting along. So from a practical standpoint, Hyder, Alaska is Canadian. It is US in name only. No the pandemic problem with crossing, I think Canadians should seriously question the Trudeau government about the problems with that. He acted like a tyrant.