[pct-l] Canadian Immigration Question

[chelin at teleport.com (Sharon & Chuck Chelin)]

Good evening,  Geoffrey,

I finished PCT-OR & WA on 10 Sep 02, and dutifully got my hiker's entry
permit vaccinated at Hope as instructed.  The permit instructions also said
I should
surrender the vaccinated document upon leaving Canada.  When I stopped at
the Canadian entry/exit control point at Blaine, I entered the office and
showed it to two officials, each of whom read it twice.  They both said they
had never before seen such a document, but since it said they were to
collect it, they did.  All of the Canadian " Federalies " .... the RCMP at
Hope, and the Customs people at Blaine .... were courteous and professional.
Maybe that was because after I spent two nights at the lodge at Manning, and
soaked several hours in the hot-tub in the little building out back, I was
somewhat less gross than most of the other hiker-trash.

More of a problem now will be the U.S. border control people.

Steel-Eye

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffrey Selling" <geoffreys@gfsnet.org>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Canadian Immigration Question


> I just sent off my request for permission to enter Canada today (May
31st).  I'm hoping to have my wife send it on to me in Stehekin.  (I'm
setting out on June  21st from Snoqualamie Pass and heading
> north).  If the permit doesn't come in time, how serious is this?  On the
permit, it talks about checking in at Hope.  Do folks who've crossed to
Manning actually take the Greyhound to Hope, check in
> with immigration, and then continue on to Vanouver on a later Greyhound or
do they just skip the checking in.  Does anyone every really get stopped and
have their pass asked for?   Is this something
> to worry about?
> Geoffrey (Philadelphia)
>
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