![]() ![]() It’s Christmas time, yes, people want to get together, we are human beings, with strong relationships – but it takes so little to bring grandma and grandpa to the grave. Demcak said as her partner looked on disapprovingly. DARRYL DYCK/The Globe and Mailīibiana Demcak and her husband, a pair of travelling magicians from Richmond, heard about what was happening at the park and went down to see it for themselves. from Washington State.Ī tree is decorated with Christmas decorations as people meet in a tent at Peace Arch Historical State Park in Blaine, Wash. The foursome reunited once in September, with the two couples sitting on opposite sides of a ditch that separates B.C. The border was closed to non-essential travel four days later, preventing Ms. Shaw’s sister, Cara Shaw, and her partner, Luke Speed, are permanent residents – in February and crossed the border into the United States in March. What do you think they have a tent for? They’re not playing cards in there.”Īmong recent visitors were Australians Rebecca Race and Nathan Shaw, who had been travelling across North America in an RV. DARRYL DYCK/The Globe and MailĪsked how he knows there’s funny business going on in the tents, Mr. attendees at Peace Arch Historical State Park in Blaine, Wash., across the Canada-U.S. The eastern side of the park was dotted with about 50 tents.Ī man kisses a woman after a wedding ceremony in a tent with Canadian and U.S. Friends and families towed wagons of food and condiments to picnic tables, where they barbecued hot dogs and burgers. Children chased one another around a swing set as parents, bundled in winter jackets, looked on from their circles of camping chairs. Border agents and park rangers can rattle off a long list of visitors’ home states, and a scan of the licence plates in the parking lot seems to confirm it: Arizona, California, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Texas.Ī recent sunny day at the park looked like something from prepandemic times. Robinson’s chagrin, enthusiastic couples celebrating their reunions under the flimsy cover of tents. There are cookouts and weddings and, to Mr. The result is an area that’s bustling with residents of both countries like never before. side of the park “must expect to adhere to any current federal and or provincial Health orders and any necessary quarantine/isolation periods that are in place.” However, visitors seem unaware of that expectation, and officers along the border only check the IDs of returning visitors to ensure they are Canadian. RCMP, who have increased their presence in the area, say Canadians who visit the U.S. Canadians can walk into Peace Arch Historical State Park without declaring themselves to border agents as long as they return to their country of origin.ī.C. ![]() side has remained open to visitors from both sides. The Canadian half of the park at the Peace Arch Border Crossing has been closed since June 18, but the 19-acre plot on the U.S. ![]()
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