[pct-l] Fwd: Canadian Border

[Jeffrey Olson]

In June 2005 I blithely took an overnight bus from SEattle to Vancouver, 
BC with just a driver's license for ID.  That was a low snow year up 
north and I was going to do a long section hike.

The Canadian border guys got all excited when I couldn't come up with a 
passport or birth certificate.  It was 2AM and not much going on.  They 
took my pack and license and disappeared.  There were seven or eight 
people on the bus and they held it up for 20 minutes or so while they 
checked me out.  I had a DUI in 1983.

They finally said I could enter Canada, but that I should carry a birth 
certificate or passport.

Jeffrey Olson
Martin, SD

On 2/21/2011 1:39 PM, Jackie McDonnell wrote:
> Your Canada entrance papers will be denied if you have a DUI on your record.
>
>
> Whenever I've driven into Canada, I've never been asked "have you ever had a
> DUI?"  However, they'll do a background check on you when you send your PCT
> Canada entrance papers, and they'll find out that way.
>
> yogi
> www.pcthandbook.com
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Tinkle<ryantinkle at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Ryan Tinkle<ryantinkle at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:52:41 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Canadian Border
>> To: Scott Williams<baidarker at gmail.com>
>>
>> I was wondering if you could elaborate on the "DUI issue".  Is there
>> any way around this and what do you mean when you say "had to
>> backtrack".  I cannot imagine the heart break of not being able to
>> finish for something so inanely bureaucratic!  Thanks.
>>
>> On 2/21/11, Scott Williams<baidarker at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Last year there were quite a few back trackers.  Some had the DUI issue,
>> but
>>> most commonly they hadn't gotten around to getting the permit from
>> Canadian
>>> authorities to cross over at that point.  Do it now.  If you have any
>>> question about crossing this year, do it now.  Toward the end of summer
>>> there was a lot of anxiety on trail from folks who had waited.  Some got
>> the
>>> documents, and others did not.
>>>
>>> Shroomer
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