[pct-l] Canadian Immigration Question

[geoffreys at gfsnet.org (Geoffrey Selling)]

"Sharon & Chuck Chelin" <chelin@teleport.com> writes:
>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
Thanks, Steel-Eye,,,,,
	A good and reassuring story.  I'll be prepared and see what happens!  Thanks for the help.
												 Geoffrey