And than there is Europe where you live in Luxemburg, work in Germany, went to school in Belgium, have a boyfriend in France and visit your parents every week in the Netherlands...
That happens (a bit) in some Brazil borders, people live in one country, go to the school or work in other country because the frontier is in the middle of the city, and no one cares much about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I accidently crossed into Canada during a hunting trip and the Canadian trooper I ran into was super nice and gave me a ride back to my truck and gave me some home made jerky he smoked. Carlson with the CSBA is great officer.
And now, as of June 22, 2022, Canada's "whiskey war" with Denmark is finally over. The "war" was "fought" over HANS ISLAND, which both countries claimed. The Canadians started the war by raising their flag over the island and leaving a bottle of whiskey when they left. Then Denmark arrived and took down the Canadian flag, respectfully, and raised the Danish flag, leaving a bottle of Cognac. This process was repeated every so often over the years. Now Canada and Denmark have agreed to share the island.
"How did this shipwreck happen?! Couldn't you see the lighthouse you crashed into?" "According to me there is no lighthouse because the island is American"
The US and Canada really took the "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you!" and "Stay on your own side!" banter siblings do to whole nother level!😂😂
@@cakemanjefferson9893 No. They've been on the lam for decades, though, living in fear that they'd be turned in to the authorities by neighbors or coworkers, yet still hoping to live as their authentic selves once again... 😥😥😥
Im from upstate NY. There have been several times that I have driven (drove? idk) into Canada by accident. There are areas where it just turns into Canada. You can tell because all the road signs immediately shift into km and french. Weirded me out.
As a British Columbian Canadian who lives less than 20 minutes from the border, I find this fascinating. I never knew there was a "no-touching zone" on the entire border. I just thought is was a gap in the forest from logging. And the fact that there are some parts where you have to cross the border to reach another part of your own country is equally interesting.
I love how the US and Canada diligently Co-manage a "no touching zone" that maintains the border exactly... and meanwhile in europe some farmer moved a rock slightly which changed the border France, and it took them like 3 years to even notice...
That bit about the farmer is a misquotation (they originally said they didn’t know how it occurred, and speculated it might have been something _like_ that), and in any case the stone was a border _marker_ - the actual border was set in a treaty.
There was a funny bit in the old "West Wing" TV series. A some point C.J. makes a joke to a general, about having plans to go to war with every country except Canada. General: "Welllllll ......" Yes, over a hundred years old but still on file. C.J. makes sure there are no other copies and burns it and hisses intensely 'Don't ever tell anyone about this!" I _assume_ it's not true.
@@veramae4098 There was a point in history that nearly got to war between Britain-owned Canada and the US outside of the American Revolution and the War of 1812/that part of the Napoleonic Wars that took place in North America - right before the American Civil War there was a big hoopla over the border dispute at the westernmost side of the country that led to an incident called the Pig War, that... didn't actually get to the point of a war, thankfully. It and a bunch of other things led to some extremely cool relations between America and Britain for over a decade though, before the Treaty of Washington in 1872, which is itself one of the most historically important events of the 1800s in the ripple effects it had on global society even ignoring the obvious "America and Britain became extremely close allies" outcome.
@@veramae4098 Oh, War Plan Crimson (Canada) absolutely existed - but the context surrounding it is primarily as the land campaign of War Plan Red (UK), which was later reorganized between 1939 and 1942 as something for if Britain collapses, and the Canadian government goes along with London in capitulating to Germany... That SAID, prior to 1939, it absolutely was a full-on and genuine "let's do 1812 right" type of deal, with the expectation that between 1919 and 1929 that Britain would honor her military obligations to Japan. The Japanese plan was War Plan Orange, and a joint Anglo-Japanese war against the US was considered as "War Plan Red-Orange"
@@2dhoes240 you don't have to stop to show anyone anything over state borders. Sometimes I don't even realise I've driven past a state border. Besides fruit there's not much restriction.
My dad used to be a teacher up in Blaine Washington and still to this day complains about “why don’t we just give point roberts to Canada” because so many of his students showed up late to school whenever there was the slightest issue at the border
As a truck driver one day I just drove to the border, hopped out of my truck and walked over towards Canada an back to United States a few times and said I crossed the border three times and that was it. Because I was alone it wasn't that much fun
That's exactly what I would do, just for the total weirdness of it! One foot in Canada & my other in the US; or, my legs in the US whilst the rest was in Canada! You get a weird thrill & sense of nervousness knowing you're breaking so many laws simultaneously, even though technically no-one cares. But, you could be arrested, imprisoned, deported for being a few feet the wrong way; it's all really odd. I would definitely stand in one country whilst urinating into the other...🤪
Years ago, I was surveying boundaries of a National Forest. It had been done before in the 1800's. They did an amazing job considering they only had a compass and a chain. We did find one error that was significant enough to cause Forest Service having to move a large park entrance sign maybe 50 feet.
In some ways the surveying parties had it easier with handling equipment back in the era of the horse and mules for transportation, as pack mules could lug all the equipment right to the surveying site. Whereas in the motorized era, vehicles may not have access to the survey site, requiring the surveying staff to carry the equipment from the vehicle(s) to the site.
I do like how this is the equivalent of the tape border through a shared bedroom except under this circumstance, both sides are quite amicable about it. Siblings, take note, you can have your half and still be friendly ^-^
I heard that if you cross the No Touching Zone heading north and don't present your passport you get chased by Moose armed with guns that shoot Timbits.
@@anapilar7464 really!!! So how does it work. Do you have to have a valid passport cause your going into another country. I myself am Canadian. I actually live in British Columbia..
Nicole Bennett I don’t live in point Roberts but my friends who do have told me that the bus picks them up like the other kids, no passports or anything to go through
My social studies teacher told me he knew someone who was hunting by the border here in minnesota, he said out of curiosity he wanted to see if he could walk into canada and when he tried a drone started following him so he just left it at that.
When my cousin went to uni in Montreal, he met a friend that lived in that aforementioned town going over the border. it's another very small town. There, people can cross the border freely to get to the other side of town and often go to work in either country. They also use both currencies for regular daily transactions. Pretty neat.
There’s quite a few places in the US where citizens can cross the border freely, mainly in border states and only some states off it but an enhanced drivers license allows Americans to cross into Canada without a passport
CrimpyGummybear Neither of us wants it and would really suck for both of us. The fact that both countries rely on each other economically aside, Canada initiating on the US would be like a goose trying to kill an eagle and the US initiating on Canada would draw the attention of the whole world onto itself. I'm not sure if even South Korea, Japan, or Israel would be chill with the US just invading Canada all of a sudden. All the countries who already saw the US unfavouraby would have their beliefs vindicated and rally against the US not for Canada's sake but just because they would have an excuse to antagonize them. So, yeah, bad idea for both countries.
OtakuEdits Yes but realistically I truly believe no country would be brave enough to try to do anything militarily against the US, the only thing they could do is to vote to put sanctions on the US but that wouldn't save Canada and the Nation would cease to exist and the provinces would become states.
Growing up I lived on Grosse Ile, an Island south of Detroit MI at the mouth of the Detroit River and Lake Erie. My house was on the east side of the Island and the view out of my window was of the Detroit River and Canada. I lived right on the boarder which was down the middle of the Livingston Channel (roughly). I was closer to Canada than the main land of the US. I never thought of that as being somewhat unique growing up but I guess it kind of is.
The NW Angle (2:30) had a one room school house until 1990s. Now it is an international school bus route to Warroad school district. Also, border station at NW angle is just a telephone (or at least it was last time I knew).
Not as awkward as Ecuador built a massive monument to mark the equator, then few years later finds out by GPS that the actual equator is 240m away from it
Didn’t even have to say you were Canadian for me to guess you were Canadian. The politeness in this comment is so Canadian that it smells like Maple Syrup and sounds like hockey.
Same, I'm a proud American however I truly love my neighbor country Canada. We share so much history together and have been neighbors for centuries, let's keep the peace. We are too much alike to hate each other right? 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
There's a town in northern Vermont called "Derby Line". It's bordered on the north by Stanstead,Quebec. Near the Haskell Library is a spot that represents the actual border that doesn't have a fence or a wall....just flower pots.
It’s crazy to me that some spots have a full on military checkpoint like say fort Erie and other spots it’s just a forest you can walk across and nobody would ever know.
Uberaham Al It depends. If you say when a country was founded is the country’s birthday then Canada is older. But if you say the Independence Day of the country is the country’s birthday, then the us is older.
Really? Older siblings are usually the assholes I don't think I've ever met a nice older sibling it'd be easier to find a dinosaur bone or unicorn at Maybe if you older siblings stopped being stupid scumbags who just bother and attack people for the hell of it maybe younger siblings would also be nice too but older siblings basically never deserve niceness they deserve to suffer that's all they do to others and the 1 in 1 million older siblings with any iota of sense would probably be cool but apparently 99% of older siblings don't come with a brain it's not that hard to just not be an asshole it's pretty easy actually but human incompetence knows no bounds apparently
U forgot that it's the longest unguarded border. People are idiots and will stumble across borders if not confronted by guards or ridiculous clearings. Take for example the kids who lived in Alberta and wandered across while playing Pokemon go and had to be deported 100 metres.
I love hiking up to the border and just seeing the zone between and the border markers. It’s very fun and it’s a beautiful hike on the way from where I am
One of my high school teachers grew up in one of those border states. I forget which one. He was a Vietnam vet so this would’ve been in the 50’s. He talked about how when they used to go hunting they knew where the border was because there were no trees, but they would hunt in Canada and Canadians would hunt in the states. Because nobody cared.
Ah yes, back when nobody cared - now everybody cares about every little thing that goes on because they have nothing better to do with their lonely lives.
Actually it was our conservative prime minister who did that, He made us overly dependent on Oil so that when it's price fell our economy when with it. Next time you speak about my country make sure you're getting your sources from someone who isn't FOX news.
i live in a border town, i fish on a lake 1/2 in usa 1/2 in canada. you can get pretty big fines for catching fish on the wrong side so best not drift too far over
Obviously the US mows their half and Canada mows their half. Of course, it's really hard to eyeball the halfway mark so there is another, much smaller "no touching zone" inside the "no touching zone" for the mowers. Now, who cuts the grass there? Obviously the US cuts their half and Canada cuts their half, only this time they use weed whackers. You can get a lot more accurate with weed whackers, but to keep the sides clear there is another even smaller "no touching zone" inside the small "no touching zone" inside the "no touching zone". So, who cuts the grass in that zone? Well obviously..........
+daniel shim I pretty much learned this in grade three about 45 years ago. But its fun to watch this video for gits and shiggles. Also fun too see all of laughable mistakes that Americans make when it comes to talking about Canada. Too bad American schools do not teach American kids about anything outside of - or even inside of - America.
+garcemac lol yeah by 8th grade I have had: 3 years of texas history/geography, 1 year of american history that basically gave us a day on every major event in american history except for the civil war (we spent an amazing amount of time on that one), this year I have no clue what we're supposed to be learning because the teacher goes off on so many random tangents (we just learned about the amendments and now we're watching a video about walmart.... ?) and then the first few years of social studies we didn't learn anything of importance.
I've lived here for eight years and i could say the same thing! The history's pretty boring...the only really interesting part was that louis riel guy, war of 1812, and new france...
Stanstead is probably the most fascinating thing about canadian and USA border. There's in that town a library where you can see a line on the floor which you can cross ; technically it means you could be in both country at the same time!
yes and there is a Fort Knox of maple syrup in Quebec that serves to regulate prices and ensure a steady supply of all variety of maple syrup for every one. I kid you not its a giant guarded warehouse .
+MrLittlelawyer Nah, they sorted their borders out in the traditional human way Muscovy agreed with itself that Novgorod was a silly blob on the map and would look much better as part of them. After repeating this process a couple times they decided that a kickass new name was in order. Why quibble who owns that particular set of trees/mountains when you can own ALL of it?
I've spent a few months on one of the islands in Lake of the Woods at the tippy top of Minnesota, so it was a little funny seeing that area shown in detail in a CZcams video.
the most boring border is between germany and the netherlands cause there is no border just a sign on the autobahn that says WIKOMMEN IN DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND, KAMERAD you wouldnt even know that you entered without that sign
In most places the sign is just the words "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" on a European flag. And it's basically the same all over the Schengen area; the border between France and Spain is equally unremarkable, for example.
@@EnterJustice even more unremarkable? spain-portugal... if not for the sign the climate is basically the same and tbe uilding styles in center portugal eastern spain are very similar
The clearest border in the EU is the Belgian-Dutch one. When driving on the highway and you suddenly feel a shitty road under your car, you know thst you've just entered Belgium
I was talking with a friend who grew up in Wisconsin. There was a road that looped up through Canada and back. You couldn't get to the road from the Canada side. So the high school kids figured out they could drive into Canada and drink and party, and the WI authorities couldn't do anything, and the Canadian authorities couldn't get to them to do anything. If course the Mounties finally ended up hiking or horseback or something, and the kids got their asses busted and the party thing shut down. Fun while it lasted though.
Ask friend if it was Mamie Road or Murphy Lake Rd. He's probably talking about state border irregularities between Wisconsin and the U.P. along the Menominee and Brule rivers. There are many places where Michigan is only (land) accessible from Wisconsin and vice versa.
Wisconsin doesn’t share any boarders with Canada. As Andrew stated above they were likely referencing Michigans upper peninsula’s boarder and the WI authorities had lost jurisdiction once the partiers passed the territorial line
We drove to the border on up north of Polebridge Montana a couple years ago just to say we did. I didn’t realize until then that there was the no touching zone. One other note; at that location there is also a fairly deep trench dug on the boarder (I don’t know how far the trench goes from the gate) Local guy said it’s to help prevent people crossing in vehicles. An ATV would have no issue, but I don’t think a regular car/suv could make it through. This was once an operating border crossing until 9/11. Both Canada and the US sides had quite a few cameras and sensors on towers. He claimed if you walked across a ways that some boarder patrol folks would show up. Wasn’t in the mood to test that theory, so I took his word for it!
When I was 15 (I'm now 62) we went on a boat tour of the Thousand Island region of the ST. Lawrence. I seem to recall the tour guide pointing out a small bridge between two islands and stated that it was the shortest international bridge in the world, one island in Canada and the other in America, both owned by the same family. Now I wonder if those islands were twenty feet apart. I took the same tour in 2002 with my family and that same information wasn't pointed out so I don't know if it is still true. Either way the scenery was beautiful and Boldt Castle was really cool.
I remember taking this same boat tour around 2009 or so and they did point it out! I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was less than 20 feet, I remember it being a really small bridge.
You do know that Canada is in America too don't you.. America is the continent not the country.. the countries are the United States and Canada.. in fact EVERY country on this side of the world is in America.. either North America or South America.. still America...
Another funny one is Stewart B.C and Hyder Alaska, when leaving Canada you can pass freely into Alaska but upon return you need some I.D. Hyder has a population of about 80 people and relies heavily in Stewart for pretty much everything. Once you are in Hyder there aren't any roads that lead further Into Alaska, it's one strange little town. If you ever visit do not forget to get Hyderized.
You know I had a sudden thought about sibling shenanigans. Even with your closest siblings, one tends to draw the line to define what belongs to who. And it seems that same concept also applies to sister nations. I'm reminded of dividing a shared bedroom with my sister.
So basically, one could hike the Canadian-USA border for the most part from east to west within that open zone as long as you stayed on the right side. There might be a few places one would have to detour. That could become the 4th great hike in the 3 currently considered the greatest in the USA.
Things were very tough for Point Roberts the past couple of years. The residents got cut off from border crossing and Canadian visitors who obviously play a huge role in their economy.
When i was a kid, point roberts high schoolers had to be bussed to Blaine every morning when the highschool there filled up. There were no ferries, and the students weren't allowed to leave the bus while in canada. Up to two hours to school, oftentimes late if the crossing was busy
Why would you live there? I feel like residents during Covid should have been able to cross, and tourism could have remained open just to point roberts, I doubt there’s anything there that poses a security risk to the US , especially when it’s Canadians coming in! Could easily have waived the border closure just for this one spot
@@Ceryniful Yea because THAT doesn't become a giant loophole that gets exploited by everyone, right? You know that point roberts has an airport, right? They'd just have Americans from all over flying in to get into Canada and go on vacations like they were already doing while claiming to be going to Alaska (which they were allowed to cross into Canada to do).
ngl I really like the idea of The United States and Canada being these obviously different but also clearly related siblings showing up to crash the Europeans fancy parties and occasionally seeing their favorite cousins (also siblings ) New Zealand and Australia
UK: Very beautiful gathering Switzerland. No one is trying to kill each other….yet. Switzerland: Ja. Danke Herr UK..oh no… USA/Canada: *walks in, uncaring of the stares they were being given* US: Heya Dad! How’s life treatin’ ya? Canada: *smiles and waves* Europe: Oh no…..
@@hermeslein6614 Canada has average healthcare at best and some states are safer than Canada as a whole. The only thing Canadians have is that they're not Americans. Other than that we are 95% similar.
Except in the Boundary Waters/Quantico area, there is no border band of twenty feet in the park that I saw. That border was a little/ a lot lax when it comes to campers with canoes needing to get down a lake and the only natural route to walk it with your gear and canoes is for a brief journey on a portage through the Quetico to get get around a small falls and rapids on Long Lake,
FUN FACT: A team of trained Canadian beavers are used to maintain the 'no touching zone' While our beavers keep the trees at bay, American eagles are known to keep a close eye for border jumping beavers.
@JustVisiting if they actually found oil under there... the lighthouse would actually be gone by the end of the week judging by the speed of the US air force. Then the US can go back to saying it never existed at all xd
My nephew who is from Buffalo, NY is a US border guard and was originally in stationed in Laredo, TX. It took a few transfers to get back home. When I mentioned to a friend that he was finally back home in Buffalo, she asked why there would be border patrol agents in Buffalo because there us no border there.
@@leob4403 How can you know if somethings going to last forever? It would take an infinite amount of time to find out if somethings going to last forever. So there is no basis to that "rule", if something is going to last forever, it will be mixed in with all the things that aren't in the present moment, as long as it still exists in the present, then there is a possibility that it will last forever. But we wont know which ones will last forever and which ones wont until infinity has passed i.e. never.
@@saokdjijhasd thats why its called the circle of life, its infininite, these countries will die, but then reappear in some distant future eons away, alternate universe or whatever
The border crossing airports started in WWII as a way for planes built in the US to be towed across the border to Canada where they were flown to the UK to be used. As the US was not yet at war with Germany this was a fudging way around the laws which were a little vague on purpose,
I *really* doubt that. The U.S. was sending war materials through lend-lease long before entering the war, and I can't think of a legal wording that would allow for exporting planes by towing, but not flying. Either you're gullible, or you're lying for attention.
Pt. Roberts gives the USA a large part of Boundary Bay, the second largest producing bay for the Dungeness crab industry. Even the Canadian trappers off load and sell in Blaine, Wa. before returning to White Rock. The Pt. Roberts economy is a large marina and Pub, and Canadians drive that economy and own most of the housing. So no one forces Americans to live in Pt. Roberts!!!
It wasn’t noticed until after the treaty was signed. Again, pre-GPS world. I once suggested starting a ferry service, but somebody said that it’d either be too cold or too dangerous in the winter.
Zero ave ( a mile or two east of the peace arch , in the west ) is a quite long road on the border and is easy to hop over ( visiting the house opposite for instance ) ! ...........
Rigby Solid i was about to be offended but than i thought: what would the climate in america be like if canada was an ocean? this is a dire question that needs an answer!
I found out when I actually went there. Live in Alaska and saw it when I was 8 and my dad said it was Canada XD. We hiked through it real quick to say we went to Canada then kept going where we were going.
Man, I'm sorry this video missed my favorite border irregularity (also known as the one that's where I'm from). The border between where Maine (then a part of Massachusetts) ended and New Brunswick and Quebec began was so disputed we went to war. Not joking. "The Aroostook War." Also known as the 'Bloodless Aroostook War,' which also featured the declaration of the independent nation the Republic of Madawaska until it was resolved. Thus the plethora of forts in the northernmost county of Maine, including Fort Kent and Fort Fairfield among others. The border was set to its current lines (largely following the St. John River Valley, which also means we didn't need to cut a swath as we have a river that does that for us) with the signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which established the border and ended the war. (Most of the territory was ceded to America, but the treaty ensured an overland route between Lower Canada and the Maritimes, so everyone went home satisfied and there were never non-cigarettes-or-potato based border disputes ever again. Well, until the 2000s when the casual-cross-border relationship that defined the St. John Valley's economic web got scuttled post 9/11.)
We had a lot of bloodless wars (and two bloody ones). A lot of cross-border economies and cultures got cut off after 9/11. When you think about, it's crazy to run a crooked straight line across a continent. British Columbia is closer to the state of Washington than other parts of Canada. That Northwest region calls itself Cascadia and they have their own flag. It's true right down the line, we're part of a common geography cross border.
In washington state, in the last 10 years, if you're hunting on foot and get even close to that line, suddenly a border patrol agent will appear and want to know what you're doing. Not sure what kind of surveilance they use, but it's comprehensive. I wasnt aware the northern border posed a threat to national securitylike that.
It’s just there’s such a difference when it comes to some big things as others here have mentioned (guns and cannabis) that they can’t just be as lax as they used to be.
Circum Soilder Unfortunately the US already tried that... it was called the War of 1812. The Americans invaded Canada, pillaged our farms, burned our crops and sacked and burned our [then] capital York (now called Toronto). Americans did all that thinking that the large number of new Canadians who were former colonists of the thirteen colonies and who still had family on the US side of the border, would willing join the US forces (now burning and pillaging their farms) in rebellion against the British crown. You really have to wonder about American logic sometimes... they invaded a country claiming *'we're here to free you from your colonial overlords'* while US troops kill, rape, pillaged and burned our farms, and they were surprised we didn't en masse join them in rebellion against those who were defending us? You'd think we were ungrateful or somethin'. [note to wood-be US invaders, you want to *win the hearts and minds* of a population in a nation you just invaded? Don't embark on a campaign of terror! You'll only piss off the locals.] Nope, Canada and the USA should remain separate. Up here, we're too "liberal" for Americans ... and I mean 'liberal" in both the classical and modern sense.
I live near the Texas/Mexican border and we literally buy tamales through the border fence holes. A guy in Mexico roles his tamale cart up and down the border wall. You slip him some peso's through the fence, and a tamale comes to you.
And than there is Europe where you live in Luxemburg, work in Germany, went to school in Belgium, have a boyfriend in France and visit your parents every week in the Netherlands...
Sounds complicated
Sounds accurate
That happens (a bit) in some Brazil borders, people live in one country, go to the school or work in other country because the frontier is in the middle of the city, and no one cares much about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m from Ohio, went to school in Indiana, and work in Michigan. Except for the common language, it’s not that different
@@tylerstagge7465 Ohio, Indiana and Michigan aren't 3 separate nations, though.
Person: I think I found oil on the no-touching zone.
USA: who said that was a no-touching zone?
_I did_
There's oil all over Canada and the US, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was oil along the border.
@@owowhatisthis Canadians and the United Kingdom.
好厉害 Britain: What did I tell you about fighting your brother back in 1812? Now don’t get any ideas, or I’ll arrange a “family meeting”.
@@owowhatisthis pffft, Canada's just a myth made up by the government. If we find oil there, then they'll finally admit it.
I accidently crossed into Canada during a hunting trip and the Canadian trooper I ran into was super nice and gave me a ride back to my truck and gave me some home made jerky he smoked.
Carlson with the CSBA is great officer.
*CBSA
Imagine what would happen if a Canadian or other Nationals accidentally crossing borders to US and gets caught.
@@OneT0One Nothing too bad, Americans are usually pretty friendly with Canadians
@@gingerninjer355 lolz and you are the one who is giving people lectures on youtube what they should and shouldn't be doing.
But are not friendly, generally.
And now, as of June 22, 2022, Canada's "whiskey war" with Denmark is finally over. The "war" was "fought" over HANS ISLAND, which both countries claimed. The Canadians started the war by raising their flag over the island and leaving a bottle of whiskey when they left. Then Denmark arrived and took down the Canadian flag, respectfully, and raised the Danish flag, leaving a bottle of Cognac. This process was repeated every so often over the years. Now Canada and Denmark have agreed to share the island.
but do they drink whiskey or cognac?
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 they mix both and get hammered would be my guess
Aww... That was my favourite conflict :,(
@@buddhapork put a guinness on the island and claim it for your country
but i heard the danes piece is a little larger than the canadian side. the danes are there because of greenland.
Canada: MOM America is touching my Island, It has my lighthouse on it
America: *Eyes closed* I don't see any Lighthouse
who is canada's mom ?
@Laois Ayeetson britain produced a bad daughter (america)
the fact that i went to that island is very amusing
@@frostedcat clearly Britain
+Jori Roberts
The United Kingdom: Bloody hell, why can't you two just get on? Australia and NZ don't seem to mind sharing a hemisphere!
"How did this shipwreck happen?! Couldn't you see the lighthouse you crashed into?"
"According to me there is no lighthouse because the island is American"
And oil starts spilling out of the lighthouse
Gentel Noober then it is definitely American
We have more oil than we know what to do with that we would gladly sell to the US.
+InflateMe81 true that
I thought Canada has some of the most hydro dams of any country
The US and Canada really took the "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you!" and "Stay on your own side!" banter siblings do to whole nother level!😂😂
“Don’t make me stop this continent”
Living in Australia all this border stuff is really fascinating!
border? whats border?
Ha, ha, this is so funny. Australia is so huge.
The nearest border for Australia, I guess is the Thursday Islands, bordering PNG, North of Australia
hhhh， the border is the sea coast
It reminds me of two siblings on vacation who have to sleep in the same hotel bed so they bunch up towels between them
Strangely specific. Speaking from experience hm?
@@dougthedonkey1805 oof, I would've slept on a chair or the floor instead lol
I just put pillows instead of towels
DougtheDonkeyTV My brother and I did that with whole ass couch cushions once.
DougtheDonkeyTV unless they’re from alabama
I, with my Canadian father and American mother, am living proof that the "no touching zone" thing doesn't always work.
I'm assuming this means your parents are now in prison. On each side of the border
Your parents were touching each others zones all along. 😆
@@cakemanjefferson9893 No. They've been on the lam for decades, though, living in fear that they'd be turned in to the authorities by neighbors or coworkers, yet still hoping to live as their authentic selves once again... 😥😥😥
So where were you born?
@@deerfeet9524 ♫♪ I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rollin’ down highway 41... ♪♫
Im from upstate NY. There have been several times that I have driven (drove? idk) into Canada by accident. There are areas where it just turns into Canada. You can tell because all the road signs immediately shift into km and french. Weirded me out.
I drove...
I have driven...
@@JBofBrisbane
no one cares💀
You have just disappointed millions of Québecois.
No it's Québecois. (I hope you're being sarcastic)
@@shadowyzephyr Quebexicans
As a British Columbian Canadian who lives less than 20 minutes from the border, I find this fascinating. I never knew there was a "no-touching zone" on the entire border. I just thought is was a gap in the forest from logging. And the fact that there are some parts where you have to cross the border to reach another part of your own country is equally interesting.
I love how the US and Canada diligently Co-manage a "no touching zone" that maintains the border exactly... and meanwhile in europe some farmer moved a rock slightly which changed the border France, and it took them like 3 years to even notice...
That bit about the farmer is a misquotation (they originally said they didn’t know how it occurred, and speculated it might have been something _like_ that), and in any case the stone was a border _marker_ - the actual border was set in a treaty.
@@gymnasiast90 wait moving the stone doesn't change it on paper?!?
There was a funny bit in the old "West Wing" TV series. A some point C.J. makes a joke to a general, about having plans to go to war with every country except Canada.
General: "Welllllll ......"
Yes, over a hundred years old but still on file. C.J. makes sure there are no other copies and burns it and hisses intensely 'Don't ever tell anyone about this!"
I _assume_ it's not true.
@@veramae4098 There was a point in history that nearly got to war between Britain-owned Canada and the US outside of the American Revolution and the War of 1812/that part of the Napoleonic Wars that took place in North America - right before the American Civil War there was a big hoopla over the border dispute at the westernmost side of the country that led to an incident called the Pig War, that... didn't actually get to the point of a war, thankfully. It and a bunch of other things led to some extremely cool relations between America and Britain for over a decade though, before the Treaty of Washington in 1872, which is itself one of the most historically important events of the 1800s in the ripple effects it had on global society even ignoring the obvious "America and Britain became extremely close allies" outcome.
@@veramae4098 Oh, War Plan Crimson (Canada) absolutely existed - but the context surrounding it is primarily as the land campaign of War Plan Red (UK), which was later reorganized between 1939 and 1942 as something for if Britain collapses, and the Canadian government goes along with London in capitulating to Germany... That SAID, prior to 1939, it absolutely was a full-on and genuine "let's do 1812 right" type of deal, with the expectation that between 1919 and 1929 that Britain would honor her military obligations to Japan. The Japanese plan was War Plan Orange, and a joint Anglo-Japanese war against the US was considered as "War Plan Red-Orange"
I find international border stuff fascinating, coming from Australia it's a new concept.
i hear the british are really good at drawing straight lines
Lolol
Haha from someone used to international borders, I find AU interesting haha
@@2dhoes240 you don't have to stop to show anyone anything over state borders. Sometimes I don't even realise I've driven past a state border. Besides fruit there's not much restriction.
Covid has entered the chat 😥
My dad used to be a teacher up in Blaine Washington and still to this day complains about “why don’t we just give point roberts to Canada” because so many of his students showed up late to school whenever there was the slightest issue at the border
Imagine living in that one town where you could say “ back in my day I had to cross 4 borders just to get to school”
Up hill. Both ways. In the snow.
@@Superintendent_ChaImers Well considering it's Northwest Washington, "in the rain" would be more accurate.
There are at least two of those towns.
As a truck driver one day I just drove to the border, hopped out of my truck and walked over towards Canada an back to United States a few times and said I crossed the border three times and that was it. Because I was alone it wasn't that much fun
I'm glad you did it anyway 😄
Do you know the trouble you could have caused!!!!! 🤣 You probably broke some national security rules. 😄 Daring!
That's exactly what I would do, just for the total weirdness of it! One foot in Canada & my other in the US; or, my legs in the US whilst the rest was in Canada!
You get a weird thrill & sense of nervousness knowing you're breaking so many laws simultaneously, even though technically no-one cares. But, you could be arrested, imprisoned, deported for being a few feet the wrong way; it's all really odd. I would definitely stand in one country whilst urinating into the other...🤪
EH?
@@BossSpringsteen69 You'll have to be more specific...
I think we need a referendum to officially name it the No-Touching Zone.
We need to establish the joint client buffer state of "The No-Touching Zone" where the main export is lumber.
And then, we'll find oil, and The No-Touching Zone will be annexed by the USA.
How about the Can - America zone
Sir Francis Nope.
the pug awsome gamer The Canika zone.....
Nah, "no touching zone" sounds better
Years ago, I was surveying boundaries of a National Forest. It had been done before in the 1800's. They did an amazing job considering they only had a compass and a chain. We did find one error that was significant enough to cause Forest Service having to move a large park entrance sign maybe 50 feet.
In some ways the surveying parties had it easier with handling equipment back in the era of the horse and mules for transportation, as pack mules could lug all the equipment right to the surveying site. Whereas in the motorized era, vehicles may not have access to the survey site, requiring the surveying staff to carry the equipment from the vehicle(s) to the site.
I do like how this is the equivalent of the tape border through a shared bedroom except under this circumstance, both sides are quite amicable about it. Siblings, take note, you can have your half and still be friendly ^-^
I heard that if you cross the No Touching Zone heading north and don't present your passport you get chased by Moose armed with guns that shoot Timbits.
hahahaha
After shooting you they say sorry lol
XD it's true tho
haha
This is the best anything ever
3:55 : how my parents described them going to school in their home town
LMAOOO that's so true
I go to that school and I think it’s funny how my friend get picked up at school at 7 in the morning
@@anapilar7464 really!!! So how does it work. Do you have to have a valid passport cause your going into another country. I myself am Canadian. I actually live in British Columbia..
Nicole Bennett I don’t live in point Roberts but my friends who do have told me that the bus picks them up like the other kids, no passports or anything to go through
You forgot about the bears and the 10km treak up and down a mountain
My social studies teacher told me he knew someone who was hunting by the border here in minnesota, he said out of curiosity he wanted to see if he could walk into canada and when he tried a drone started following him so he just left it at that.
One time my GPS took me straight into Canada without crossing customs, just a dirt road. I guess you can say I was an illegal alien..
One of my neighbors actually works every summer on maintaining that 20 foot gap.
So I would assume he is a government employee? Of which country?
@@joshp.2237 I want to say both actually
Hmm. I bet that tax return is fun to fill out. Thanks.
@@joshp.2237 I think he's still paid and taxed as an American, just employed by a joint U.S. - Canadian agency
@@LuvLikeTruck Oh that makes sense. Thanks.
When my cousin went to uni in Montreal, he met a friend that lived in that aforementioned town going over the border. it's another very small town. There, people can cross the border freely to get to the other side of town and often go to work in either country. They also use both currencies for regular daily transactions. Pretty neat.
All that does is point out how silly humans and their "rules" can get
Then you realize it’s about skin color
A lot for these towns shut down during COVID because the traveling privileges went away
Oh cool, I went to ani.
There’s quite a few places in the US where citizens can cross the border freely, mainly in border states and only some states off it but an enhanced drivers license allows Americans to cross into Canada without a passport
Them guessing blindely how the border should go because that part of the map was coverd up is actually hilarious
2:00 The States should've built a bigger lighthouse. It's waay funnier than being blind
USA: So how are we gonna cut forest in half/ boarder.
Canada: Highly trained beaver’s
Props to both countries for not going to war with each other over border disputes.
CrimpyGummybear Neither of us wants it and would really suck for both of us. The fact that both countries rely on each other economically aside, Canada initiating on the US would be like a goose trying to kill an eagle and the US initiating on Canada would draw the attention of the whole world onto itself. I'm not sure if even South Korea, Japan, or Israel would be chill with the US just invading Canada all of a sudden. All the countries who already saw the US unfavouraby would have their beliefs vindicated and rally against the US not for Canada's sake but just because they would have an excuse to antagonize them. So, yeah, bad idea for both countries.
OtakuEdits Yes but realistically I truly believe no country would be brave enough to try to do anything militarily against the US, the only thing they could do is to vote to put sanctions on the US but that wouldn't save Canada and the Nation would cease to exist and the provinces would become states.
CrimpyGummybear ye
Abner Chilson very true.
Canad is too nice to invade anyone.
Growing up I lived on Grosse Ile, an Island south of Detroit MI at the mouth of the Detroit River and Lake Erie. My house was on the east side of the Island and the view out of my window was of the Detroit River and Canada. I lived right on the boarder which was down the middle of the Livingston Channel (roughly). I was closer to Canada than the main land of the US. I never thought of that as being somewhat unique growing up but I guess it kind of is.
The NW Angle (2:30) had a one room school house until 1990s. Now it is an international school bus route to Warroad school district. Also, border station at NW angle is just a telephone (or at least it was last time I knew).
Is it just me, or is this whole situation hilaroius?
same
Not as awkward as Ecuador built a massive monument to mark the equator, then few years later finds out by GPS that the actual equator is 240m away from it
This no touch zone is some nonsense. It might have some meaning back in the days when Canada was British, but I would yet to discover it...
great video also Saint Pierre and Miquelon an island off the coast of north east canada is still french lol france is in north america lol
Humans are very tribal
Despite being a canadian myself I do not care who owns that lighthouse I just want our two countries to get along
Didn’t even have to say you were Canadian for me to guess you were Canadian. The politeness in this comment is so Canadian that it smells like Maple Syrup and sounds like hockey.
@@howardbaxter2514 You forgot the Timbits lol.
Our countries get along fine
Same here from minnesota
Same, I'm a proud American however I truly love my neighbor country Canada. We share so much history together and have been neighbors for centuries, let's keep the peace. We are too much alike to hate each other right? 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
There's a town in northern Vermont called "Derby Line". It's bordered on the north by Stanstead,Quebec. Near the Haskell Library is a spot that represents the actual border that doesn't have a fence or a wall....just flower pots.
It’s crazy to me that some spots have a full on military checkpoint like say fort Erie and other spots it’s just a forest you can walk across and nobody would ever know.
When he says "no touching zone" I imagine America waving near it going "I'm not *touching* it" like an annoying little sibling
Uberaham Al It depends. If you say when a country was founded is the country’s birthday then Canada is older. But if you say the Independence Day of the country is the country’s birthday, then the us is older.
Really? Older siblings are usually the assholes I don't think I've ever met a nice older sibling it'd be easier to find a dinosaur bone or unicorn at
Maybe if you older siblings stopped being stupid scumbags who just bother and attack people for the hell of it maybe younger siblings would also be nice too but older siblings basically never deserve niceness they deserve to suffer that's all they do to others and the 1 in 1 million older siblings with any iota of sense would probably be cool but apparently 99% of older siblings don't come with a brain it's not that hard to just not be an asshole it's pretty easy actually but human incompetence knows no bounds apparently
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1024 Little siblings are the assholes and that's a fact.
@@jBread28 maybe he little siblings are assholes because a) they're less mature and b) older siblings were assholes first
Older*
U forgot that it's the longest unguarded border. People are idiots and will stumble across borders if not confronted by guards or ridiculous clearings. Take for example the kids who lived in Alberta and wandered across while playing Pokemon go and had to be deported 100 metres.
Harrison Mundschutz
If You Want To Get All Technical The Americans Actually Do Patrol The Canadian Border ... With Their Drones.
Today I learned that Americans are robots
im american. and i fully agree with you. we dont all know it or refuse to accept it
"If you want to get technical, the Americans actually do patrol the Canadian border... with their drones."
I fixed this for you!
You're free to walk across the border. As long as you don't break the law, nobody will care. Driving across is another story.
I love hiking up to the border and just seeing the zone between and the border markers. It’s very fun and it’s a beautiful hike on the way from where I am
One of my high school teachers grew up in one of those border states. I forget which one. He was a Vietnam vet so this would’ve been in the 50’s. He talked about how when they used to go hunting they knew where the border was because there were no trees, but they would hunt in Canada and Canadians would hunt in the states. Because nobody cared.
Ah yes, back when nobody cared - now everybody cares about every little thing that goes on because they have nothing better to do with their lonely lives.
@@johnnyvivic8730 says the guy ranting in the youtube comments. Oh the irony
@@Jehty21 I don't understand.
It was like this before 9/11
What happens if you touch the no-touching zone?
you get sent to the abyss.
+hereLiesThisTroper Chris Hansen happens
+hereLiesThisTroper Statutory rape
TheJointGamer Do Americans need to build a wall and let Canada pay for it or is that just for Mexico?
we need a better wall on the mexico border.
Good fences make good neighbors. Canada is the best neighbor any country could ask for.
Not anymore. Once Trudeau became prime minister y'all just became fuk bois with maple syrup and little to no money.
+Jamal Brown at lest we won't get run by a moron for a few years
You're being ruined by an idiot right now, your economy is down the drain.
Without the great beer...
Actually it was our conservative prime minister who did that, He made us overly dependent on Oil so that when it's price fell our economy when with it. Next time you speak about my country make sure you're getting your sources from someone who isn't FOX news.
2:06 the way you say that just makes me grin
i live in a border town, i fish on a lake 1/2 in usa 1/2 in canada. you can get pretty big fines for catching fish on the wrong side so best not drift too far over
Who gets paid to cut the grass in the no touching zone?
Obviously the US mows their half and Canada mows their half. Of course, it's really hard to eyeball the halfway mark so there is another, much smaller "no touching zone" inside the "no touching zone" for the mowers. Now, who cuts the grass there? Obviously the US cuts their half and Canada cuts their half, only this time they use weed whackers. You can get a lot more accurate with weed whackers, but to keep the sides clear there is another even smaller "no touching zone" inside the small "no touching zone" inside the "no touching zone". So, who cuts the grass in that zone? Well obviously..........
+David Stagg Lolololololololololol
Mexicans...
Bob from Toronto.
Drake, He don't wanna touch, he just wanna talk and find your love.
I lived in Canada for past 10 years, and this is one of the most, possibly just the most, interesting thing I learned about Canada.
GOT EM!
+daniel shim same thing for america
+daniel shim I pretty much learned this in grade three about 45 years ago. But its fun to watch this video for gits and shiggles. Also fun too see all of laughable mistakes that Americans make when it comes to talking about Canada. Too bad American schools do not teach American kids about anything outside of - or even inside of - America.
+garcemac lol yeah by 8th grade I have had: 3 years of texas history/geography, 1 year of american history that basically gave us a day on every major event in american history except for the civil war (we spent an amazing amount of time on that one), this year I have no clue what we're supposed to be learning because the teacher goes off on so many random tangents (we just learned about the amendments and now we're watching a video about walmart.... ?) and then the first few years of social studies we didn't learn anything of importance.
I've lived here for eight years and i could say the same thing! The history's pretty boring...the only really interesting part was that louis riel guy, war of 1812, and new france...
Oversimplified:Straight line? Straight line. Grey:very bizarre
Stanstead is probably the most fascinating thing about canadian and USA border. There's in that town a library where you can see a line on the floor which you can cross ; technically it means you could be in both country at the same time!
On a semi-related note... maple (syrup) smugglers are a legit thing, guys. It's liquid gold so far as the Northeast is concerned.
😂
Only between the US and Canada can this be a real thing.
😂😂😭😭
As a person who lives in the Northeast it is liquid gold
yes and there is a Fort Knox of maple syrup in Quebec that serves to regulate prices and ensure a steady supply of all variety of maple syrup for every one. I kid you not its a giant guarded warehouse .
It's like the U.S. and Canada are having the world's stupidest slap fight.
+ReiAyanami8 Nah, we're cool, its just all those trees and mountains get confusing after a while. I bet you Russia has it worse XD.
Ayamane*
+MrLittlelawyer Nah, they sorted their borders out in the traditional human way
Muscovy agreed with itself that Novgorod was a silly blob on the map and would look much better as part of them. After repeating this process a couple times they decided that a kickass new name was in order.
Why quibble who owns that particular set of trees/mountains when you can own ALL of it?
ReiAyanami8 or poke war :)
ReiAyanami8 it's what brothers do!
I've spent a few months on one of the islands in Lake of the Woods at the tippy top of Minnesota, so it was a little funny seeing that area shown in detail in a CZcams video.
2:09 the way he says puffins is just... *chef's kiss*
the most boring border is between germany and the netherlands
cause there is no border
just a sign on the autobahn that says WIKOMMEN IN DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND, KAMERAD
you wouldnt even know that you entered without that sign
In most places the sign is just the words "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" on a European flag. And it's basically the same all over the Schengen area; the border between France and Spain is equally unremarkable, for example.
@@EnterJustice even more unremarkable? spain-portugal... if not for the sign the climate is basically the same and tbe uilding styles in center portugal eastern spain are very similar
The clearest border in the EU is the Belgian-Dutch one. When driving on the highway and you suddenly feel a shitty road under your car, you know thst you've just entered Belgium
The uniqueness makes it not boring
@@r0manovic used to be like that on my way to visiting family in poland, until they fixed all the main roads.
I was talking with a friend who grew up in Wisconsin. There was a road that looped up through Canada and back. You couldn't get to the road from the Canada side. So the high school kids figured out they could drive into Canada and drink and party, and the WI authorities couldn't do anything, and the Canadian authorities couldn't get to them to do anything. If course the Mounties finally ended up hiking or horseback or something, and the kids got their asses busted and the party thing shut down. Fun while it lasted though.
Ask friend if it was Mamie Road or Murphy Lake Rd. He's probably talking about state border irregularities between Wisconsin and the U.P. along the Menominee and Brule rivers. There are many places where Michigan is only (land) accessible from Wisconsin and vice versa.
That’s fantastic. The true pioneers are kids looking to get wasted
Omg sounds so much fun
Wisconsin doesn’t share any boarders with Canada. As Andrew stated above they were likely referencing Michigans upper peninsula’s boarder and the WI authorities had lost jurisdiction once the partiers passed the territorial line
@@andrewlayton9760 the UP May as well be Canada. Eh?
We drove to the border on up north of Polebridge Montana a couple years ago just to say we did. I didn’t realize until then that there was the no touching zone. One other note; at that location there is also a fairly deep trench dug on the boarder (I don’t know how far the trench goes from the gate) Local guy said it’s to help prevent people crossing in vehicles. An ATV would have no issue, but I don’t think a regular car/suv could make it through. This was once an operating border crossing until 9/11. Both Canada and the US sides had quite a few cameras and sensors on towers. He claimed if you walked across a ways that some boarder patrol folks would show up. Wasn’t in the mood to test that theory, so I took his word for it!
I saw this border cut through the trees along the Alaskan/Yukon border back in 1972. It cut through the forest as far as the eye could see.
0:26 I guess you could say it’s an... international airport! Eyyyyyy
Meh 5/10
Stop
Intercontinental?
Speko is that a reference to the continents video?
I gove this dad joke a solid 9
When I was 15 (I'm now 62) we went on a boat tour of the Thousand Island region of the ST. Lawrence. I seem to recall the tour guide pointing out a small bridge between two islands and stated that it was the shortest international bridge in the world, one island in Canada and the other in America, both owned by the same family. Now I wonder if those islands were twenty feet apart. I took the same tour in 2002 with my family and that same information wasn't pointed out so I don't know if it is still true. Either way the scenery was beautiful and Boldt Castle was really cool.
I remember taking this same boat tour around 2009 or so and they did point it out! I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was less than 20 feet, I remember it being a really small bridge.
I took this tour sometime around 2007 and they pointed it out, however years later I read that it's all touristy BS.
Cool, I visited Boldt Castle in 2019,although I also didn't hear that story from the guide, guess people finally caught on that it was nonsense 😂
You do know that Canada is in America too don't you.. America is the continent not the country.. the countries are the United States and Canada.. in fact EVERY country on this side of the world is in America.. either North America or South America.. still America...
@@rztrzt I'd believe a map before I'd believe wikipedia.. anyone can change things on Wikipedia
Another funny one is Stewart B.C and Hyder Alaska, when leaving Canada you can pass freely into Alaska but upon return you need some I.D. Hyder has a population of about 80 people and relies heavily in Stewart for pretty much everything. Once you are in Hyder there aren't any roads that lead further Into Alaska, it's one strange little town. If you ever visit do not forget to get Hyderized.
The "No Touching Zone" also serves to help keep forest fires on one side of the border.
Can someone make their own nation in the "no-touching zone"?
You're reading my mind
I declare this place the Republic of No-Touching!
I would declare this deforested line Yukolaska Republic!jk
Saifthebest01 So it's settled; Let's do it!
America will find a diplomatic reason to invade it so it wont last.
I love how Canada and the USA are locked in an eternal round of "I'm not touching you"
You know I had a sudden thought about sibling shenanigans. Even with your closest siblings, one tends to draw the line to define what belongs to who. And it seems that same concept also applies to sister nations. I'm reminded of dividing a shared bedroom with my sister.
So basically, one could hike the Canadian-USA border for the most part from east to west within that open zone as long as you stayed on the right side. There might be a few places one would have to detour. That could become the 4th great hike in the 3 currently considered the greatest in the USA.
Things were very tough for Point Roberts the past couple of years. The residents got cut off from border crossing and Canadian visitors who obviously play a huge role in their economy.
Saw a news clip on it, several of the locals stores and restaurant pretty much depended on canadian tourism and it just suddenly dried up
Very different Covid travel restrictions were very destructive
When i was a kid, point roberts high schoolers had to be bussed to Blaine every morning when the highschool there filled up.
There were no ferries, and the students weren't allowed to leave the bus while in canada. Up to two hours to school, oftentimes late if the crossing was busy
Why would you live there? I feel like residents during Covid should have been able to cross, and tourism could have remained open just to point roberts, I doubt there’s anything there that poses a security risk to the US , especially when it’s Canadians coming in! Could easily have waived the border closure just for this one spot
@@Ceryniful Yea because THAT doesn't become a giant loophole that gets exploited by everyone, right? You know that point roberts has an airport, right? They'd just have Americans from all over flying in to get into Canada and go on vacations like they were already doing while claiming to be going to Alaska (which they were allowed to cross into Canada to do).
🇬🇧: Okay you guys play with ☃️ 🛢️
🇺🇸: The oil is mine
🇨🇦: Fine I’ll get the longer winter
Yea we do get colder winters but it is required to make maple syrup so it makes up for it.
for me its only really cold in late January to early February every other time is long sleeve whether
Canada has lots of oil
@@loseser Me living in a desert: *spits out chocolate milk*
HOW DO YOU SURVIVE WITH LONG SLEEVES IN THE _SUMMER_ !?
And all the space
Thank you now I have a little bit more weird trivia that I love to learn about.
And here we sit in Australia thinking borders are something you need a plane or a boat to encounter
ngl I really like the idea of The United States and Canada being these obviously different but also clearly related siblings showing up to crash the Europeans fancy parties and occasionally seeing their favorite cousins (also siblings ) New Zealand and Australia
the US and Canada are arguably the most similar nations in the world
UK: Very beautiful gathering Switzerland. No one is trying to kill each other….yet.
Switzerland: Ja. Danke Herr UK..oh no…
USA/Canada: *walks in, uncaring of the stares they were being given*
US: Heya Dad! How’s life treatin’ ya?
Canada: *smiles and waves*
Europe: Oh no…..
@@Jay-qb9gi no it's not Canada has better policy better healthcare safer than US so not similar we don't want to be americds
@@hermeslein6614 Canada has average healthcare at best and some states are safer than Canada as a whole. The only thing Canadians have is that they're not Americans. Other than that we are 95% similar.
@@Jay-qb9gi an American who has lacking of knowledge spotted
Great Britain: Now you kids play nicely.
Canada and America: We will!
Later....
Canada: My half!
America: My half!
Uncle USSR: No guys, it’s *OUR* land.
Oh no, looks like I can’t make jokes anymore guys.
@Argon S nice grammar
America (climbs into a Ford pick-up, turns on radio, singing 'O say do you see...', and via PA):
WHO IS YOUR KID?
Thank god, canada is not part of USA
Except in the Boundary Waters/Quantico area, there is no border band of twenty feet in the park that I saw. That border was a little/ a lot lax when it comes to campers with canoes needing to get down a lake and the only natural route to walk it with your gear and canoes is for a brief journey on a portage through the Quetico to get get around a small falls and rapids on Long Lake,
That's fascinating I did not know that at all you have a new subscriber very entertaining
If oil is found there, we're going have to send some freedom there.
Jorge Padua funny how there's probably more freedom up there then down here
MURICA
Zomz Cheezy not really, America doesn't have blasphemy law so it's more free, when it comes to everything else they're exactly the same
But 0.7% of Americans are incarcerated vs. 0.1% Canadians. So by that metric, Canada is "freest."
***** How am I stupid? dont call me stupid without elaborating, Im Palestinian actually, the exact opposite of an American
FUN FACT: A team of trained Canadian beavers are used to maintain the 'no touching zone' While our beavers keep the trees at bay, American eagles are known to keep a close eye for border jumping beavers.
I once accidentally crossed the border while boating on Osoyoos lake. We were pretty quickly surrounded and escorted back across the imaginary line
I use to work at Ross Lake, North Cascades National Park .Where you had to go into Canada to get to the park. So we spent a lot of time in Canada.
Canada: NO TOUCHING!
America: STOP TOUCHING IT!
Canada: YOU STARTED IT!
America:NO YOU DID!
Mexico:Amigos... Just, stop.
America and Canada: SHUT UP MEXICO!
Orale que risa no te pases XD
@@musicnmovies8573 CANADA WILL NEVER SAY THAT
America: SHUT UP
canada: relax america
Mexico: :"c
Canada: everything is ok. C:
Greenland: uh? Hey can you stop
America and Canada: Don’t make us scream at you!
Greenland: ok *left the room*
"Let's hope this disagreement gets resolved before someone finds oil under that light house"
LOL. Just imagine if that happened.
*before someone finds oil under that US light house on the US land
Im pretty sure Canada is smart enough to gave up on it cause America wont
It has
@JustVisiting they don't ignore it, to them it ain't there.
@JustVisiting if they actually found oil under there... the lighthouse would actually be gone by the end of the week judging by the speed of the US air force. Then the US can go back to saying it never existed at all xd
My nephew who is from Buffalo, NY is a US border guard and was originally in stationed in Laredo, TX. It took a few transfers to get back home. When I mentioned to a friend that he was finally back home in Buffalo, she asked why there would be border patrol agents in Buffalo because there us no border there.
Man: Builds Pyramids of Giza to exacting geometry.
Also Man: Can’t keep a straight line while marking a border.
It's so brotherly love between the two nations. I hope Canada and America will always have a good relationship with each other.
Nothing last forever, that's a rule of life
@@sgvincent100 Your comment wont age well.
Canada is part of the continent America
@@leob4403 How can you know if somethings going to last forever? It would take an infinite amount of time to find out if somethings going to last forever. So there is no basis to that "rule", if something is going to last forever, it will be mixed in with all the things that aren't in the present moment, as long as it still exists in the present, then there is a possibility that it will last forever. But we wont know which ones will last forever and which ones wont until infinity has passed i.e. never.
@@saokdjijhasd thats why its called the circle of life, its infininite, these countries will die, but then reappear in some distant future eons away, alternate universe or whatever
The border crossing airports started in WWII as a way for planes built in the US to be towed across the border to Canada where they were flown to the UK to be used. As the US was not yet at war with Germany this was a fudging way around the laws which were a little vague on purpose,
Wow i want to look into this now thanks for that interesting piece of the puzzle
no. just no.
Ohhhhh that’s clever
I *really* doubt that. The U.S. was sending war materials through lend-lease long before entering the war, and I can't think of a legal wording that would allow for exporting planes by towing, but not flying.
Either you're gullible, or you're lying for attention.
It was called the us neutrality act for those below who called bullshit
Wooded areas cut like that serve as a fire break as well.
Hiked along the border in New Hampshire to the 4th Connecticut Lake. Hikes started in US at the border crossing.
I don't know why but learning about these maps and borders made me laugh really hard. I just can't stop laughing.
+Karl Kurniawan
Well because this is 'Edutainment'
You're learning and being entertained simultaneously. So...now you know...
***** yep
I was wondering if anyone else was laughing
+Karl Kurniawan
Hey, just checking on you. Have you managed to stop laughing by now? If not, you might want to see a doctor.
+Karl Kurniawan me too man, me too
I lose my shit at the fact that some kids have to cross the state border 4 times a day to go to school 😂😂😂 shitty border planning at its best
Pt. Roberts gives the USA a large part of Boundary Bay, the second largest producing bay for the Dungeness crab industry. Even the Canadian trappers off load and sell in Blaine, Wa. before returning to White Rock. The Pt. Roberts economy is a large marina and Pub, and Canadians drive that economy and own most of the housing. So no one forces Americans to live in Pt. Roberts!!!
Thank the border planning of settlers from the 1800's
Those kids must be proud of that
@@crazymaniac7474
Random person: how many times have you been out of country?
Pt Roberts resident: Yes
It wasn’t noticed until after the treaty was signed. Again, pre-GPS world.
I once suggested starting a ferry service, but somebody said that it’d either be too cold or too dangerous in the winter.
Zero ave ( a mile or two east of the peace arch , in the west ) is a quite long road on the border and is easy to hop over ( visiting the house opposite for instance ) ! ...........
Kind of like making a No Touching Zone on your plate. Clearly defined lines that divide the food without touching each other.
Canada, thanks for being Americas Hat and keeping the cold from being on us.
Rigby Solid i was about to be offended but than i thought: what would the climate in america be like if canada was an ocean? this is a dire question that needs an answer!
Donut Ten America would be horrible. Canada is good cop and U.S is bad cop.
Rigby Solid Keeping the cold away? Speak for yourself, in the Midwest we get the same weather as our friends north of the border.
+Rigby Solid thx for being our pants
Stephen MacLellan Thx for being our hat
I cant believe I never knew that there was a massive line of cut down trees showing the border.
I found out when I actually went there. Live in Alaska and saw it when I was 8 and my dad said it was Canada XD. We hiked through it real quick to say we went to Canada then kept going where we were going.
@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 Underrated comment ^^
I can’t believe you pointed out Point Roberts, the little town of tsawwassen which is right above it is where I live!
Northwest Angle Inlet in MN also has students that must cross borders to get to and from school
0:38 Hidden Mickey. Dammit Disney, you infiltrate everything.
*flashbacks to lucky emblem hunting in Kingdom hearts*
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Man, I'm sorry this video missed my favorite border irregularity (also known as the one that's where I'm from). The border between where Maine (then a part of Massachusetts) ended and New Brunswick and Quebec began was so disputed we went to war.
Not joking. "The Aroostook War." Also known as the 'Bloodless Aroostook War,' which also featured the declaration of the independent nation the Republic of Madawaska until it was resolved. Thus the plethora of forts in the northernmost county of Maine, including Fort Kent and Fort Fairfield among others.
The border was set to its current lines (largely following the St. John River Valley, which also means we didn't need to cut a swath as we have a river that does that for us) with the signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which established the border and ended the war. (Most of the territory was ceded to America, but the treaty ensured an overland route between Lower Canada and the Maritimes, so everyone went home satisfied and there were never non-cigarettes-or-potato based border disputes ever again. Well, until the 2000s when the casual-cross-border relationship that defined the St. John Valley's economic web got scuttled post 9/11.)
We had a lot of bloodless wars (and two bloody ones).
A lot of cross-border economies and cultures got cut off after 9/11. When you think about, it's crazy to run a crooked straight line across a continent. British Columbia is closer to the state of Washington than other parts of Canada. That Northwest region calls itself Cascadia and they have their own flag. It's true right down the line, we're part of a common geography cross border.
Man am I a total weeb! I saw "The Aroostook War" and immediately thought it said "The Asterisk War." 😁
@@Sgt_SealCluber not to be confused with: Ass+tricks...like the butt+bra aka Lululemon yo gah pants.
I remember this being briefly mentioned in history class. Wasn’t the only casualty of that war one bear?
In washington state, in the last 10 years, if you're hunting on foot and get even close to that line, suddenly a border patrol agent will appear and want to know what you're doing.
Not sure what kind of surveilance they use, but it's comprehensive. I wasnt aware the northern border posed a threat to national securitylike that.
All the nine eleven terrorists entered America from the Canadian border.
It's all the weed we used to run across the border
It's the Mexican cartels who operate up there because they realized it's far less secure than the southern border.
It’s just there’s such a difference when it comes to some big things as others here have mentioned (guns and cannabis) that they can’t just be as lax as they used to be.
Living on the border I find people are surprised that there are also marker buoys in the lakes with flashing lights on them to mark the border.
1:23 alright, who photoshopped that creeper in the background?
@@reaganisom3579 So we back in the mine
@@matthewstone2545 got out pickaxe swing from side to side, side side to side
You hear a sound turn around and look up
@@Emilyx-ot1dl Total shock fills your body
@@matthewstone2545 oh no it's you again
In the end, CANADA AND THE US ARE BFF 4LYFE
Conner Gruezo We should form one super country called the US of eh.
Not at all
Sir George Severn Yes totally. The U.S. and Canada love each other
Circum Soilder
Unfortunately the US already tried that... it was called the War of 1812.
The Americans invaded Canada, pillaged our farms, burned our crops and sacked and burned our [then] capital York (now called Toronto).
Americans did all that thinking that the large number of new Canadians who were former colonists of the thirteen colonies and who still had family on the US side of the border, would willing join the US forces (now burning and pillaging their farms) in rebellion against the British crown.
You really have to wonder about American logic sometimes... they invaded a country claiming *'we're here to free you from your colonial overlords'* while US troops kill, rape, pillaged and burned our farms, and they were surprised we didn't en masse join them in rebellion against those who were defending us? You'd think we were ungrateful or somethin'.
[note to wood-be US invaders, you want to *win the hearts and minds* of a population in a nation you just invaded? Don't embark on a campaign of terror! You'll only piss off the locals.]
Nope, Canada and the USA should remain separate. Up here, we're too "liberal" for Americans ... and I mean 'liberal" in both the classical and modern sense.
TheAfroMenace I'm glad someone agrees.
I live near the Texas/Mexican border and we literally buy tamales through the border fence holes. A guy in Mexico roles his tamale cart up and down the border wall. You slip him some peso's through the fence, and a tamale comes to you.
Can you please do more!! Love the subtle humor