Ever been to Niagara Falls? Did you take the boat tour? (I know we visited the falls when I was a child, and I’m pretty sure we took the boat tour, but I honestly do not remember very much about it.)
Those boats have been run by the same company, Maid of the Mist Corporation, since 1971. But now that company has lost the contract to run boat tours on the Canadian side of the falls. And this is a problem because they need a place to fuel and store their boats during the winter: the current site is on the Canadian side, and will be taken over by the new tour operators. There’s no easy place to put a new location on the New York side, at least not without going through a minimum of two years worth of environmental reviews, permitting, and construction.
Obit watch: noted author and critic Paul Fussell. I probably should have read The Great War and Modern Memory
Yes. Never made it to the Canadian side.
I was with a bunch of people, and among them were a couple of Canadians living in the US whose immigration status was questionable. Something about expired visas…
They didn’t want to cross over to Canada because they didn’t know if they’d be allowed back over by the US border patrol. This was way before 9-11.
I was disappoint, because all the cool stuff was on that side.
I know we were on both the Canadian and American sides, but this was more than 30 years ago, when there was much more freedom of movement across the borders.
Heck, I can remember a time when you could walk across the Mexican border and back again without needing any ID…