Subject: Re: More lax than US-Canada?<br/>
Date: Aug 02, 2001 @ 15:27<br/>
Author: bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1859546850">I wouldn&#39;t characterize the US-Canada border as &quot;guarded&quot;.  In <br/>
general it is illegal to cross the border except at ports of entry, <br/>
but most of the border has no physical barricades or obstacles of any <br/>
kind.  You can obtain a &quot;boundary waters pass&quot; that lets you cross <br/>
freely anywhere between the east end of Lake Superior to Lake of the <br/>
Woods.  I have been on several trails in New Hampshire that weave <br/>
back and forth across the border.  I just visited the Peace Garden on <br/>
the border between Manitoba and North Dakota.  In the &quot;Peace Chapel&quot; <br/>
there is an engraved quotation by Winston Churchill that says &quot;That <br/>
long Canadian frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, <br/>
guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an <br/>
example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.&quot;  <br/>
We can only hope so.<br/>
<br/>
BJB<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Randy Finder&quot; &lt;naraht@D...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; I was reading the article on the fences on InPk and the to be built <br/>
&gt; on InBa. It hit me that at least to USAians, the other end of the <br/>
&gt; scale is the US-Canadian border. However that still has guards. Are <br/>
&gt; there other borders (perhaps inside the EU?) where the borders are <br/>
&gt; treated more lightly and less well guarded than USCA?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Randolph Finder </span></blockquote></div>