RE: [BoundaryPoint] GCEBE on the Radio

Doug,

I checked out the website on Hyder and Stewart. Very nice. Is there a road between the two towns?

I believe you can order the book directly from the publisher, Routledge, at the following address:

www.routledge.com or through Amazon.com--just remember I didn't have any say in the price!

Cheers,

Dallen

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Murray for StockPhotosOnline.com [mailto:dmurray@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:23 AM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] One area code, 2 countries

Yes, there is such a place: Hyder, Alaska. It's also an interesting border point (surprise!).

Here's what I found:

An example of the reverse situation is Hyder, Alaska, another town you
can take your car from the rest of Alaska only by going through Canada.
(While during a summer a ferry goes up there from Ketchikan, the ferry
terminal is in Stewart BC, not Hyder.)

Hyder's few phones are in area code 250 (British Columbia) rather than
907 (rest of Alaska). But it does have a post office, and an Alaska ZIP
code. The post office, by the way, was the only establishment in town
that accepts US currency when I visited in 1994 -- everybody else used
only Canadian money, since the only banks anywhere near Hyder are across
the border in British Columbia.

Another quirk is that Hyder is in Canada's customs zone. You don't have
to clear customs to go between Hyder and British Columbia. But if you
go from Hyder to Ketchikan, you have to clear customs in Ketchikan.

Sounds like there is an interesting tourism angle! BTW, where can I buy your book?

Doug

----- Original Message -----

From: Dallen Timothy

To: 'BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com'

Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:53 AM

Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] GCEBE on the Radio

Good job Doug. Way to build awareness of our 'peculiar' hobby!

By the way, maybe you (or anyone else ?) knows about something I've been thinking about lately. A few years ago I heard about a telecommunications enclave in the US or Canada--can't remember which. Anyway, there's apparently a community or area of either Washington or BC that has to use the telephone company and area code of the other foreign neighbor. So, for example, if I call to that area from Arizona, and it's actually in Washington, I would have to pay international Canadian rates and it would show up on my telephone bill as a call to BC. Has anyone heard of this situation in BC/WA or anywhere else?

Dallen

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