[pct-l] canada entry

CHUCK CHELIN steeleye at wildblue.net
Tue Dec 8 18:56:35 CST 2009


Good evening, Diane,

The Canada Entry Permit says it is to be presented to the border control
people when a hiker leaves the country.  The permit used to require a hiker
to present the permit to the RCMP at Hope for validation, but I don’t see
that requirement on the current posted version.

Steel-Eye
Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com <
diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:

> When/where do they check your Canadian papers? I was never asked. But
> I returned to the US by heading to the east, not to the west. It was
> the US border that hassled me. If you can call asking a lot of nosy
> questions about where I had been and what I had been doing and who I
> had been with and how many days blah blah blah while having them scan
> my chip-impregnated passport into their database while cameras were
> trained on me from every angle being hassled.
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