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From: rayazwinski@watmath.UUCP (Rick Yazwinski)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Canada border crossing
Message-ID: <1309@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 20:02:46 EST
Article-I.D.: watmath.1309
Posted: Thu Feb 20 20:02:46 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 05:55:36 EST
References: <1229@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: rayazwinski@watmath.UUCP (Rick Yazwinski)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <1229@decwrl.DEC.COM> bennison@clt.DEC writes:
>
>----
>I've travelled in Canada probably twenty-five or thirty times in my life,
>and I have never had or been asked for ANY I.D. of any kind.  They used to
>ask for your place of birth.  We always said U.S. for me though I was really
>born to American parents overseas.  Now they just ask for country of citizen-
>ship.  I never even had any hassles back in the early seventies when I was a
>bearded hippie type with a peace symbol necklace driving a beat up convertable
>sportscar.  
>					- Vick Bennison
>
>P.S.  What I meant above was that I have never carried a passport, nor have
>I ever been asked for so much as a driver's license, either entering Canada
>or re-entering the U.S.


Ah, yes Vick you may never have had any problems. But the one time that
the customs officer has had a bad day and decides to check you out
(contraband, etc.) you will be up the creek without a paddle.
				
				Rick...