Have met over a dozen couples from Alberta while south for the winter and found them all to the nicest most fun people you ever spend time with.
A few years back mentioned to a gentleman that I was surprised he was from Alberta, said he talked like he was from Minnesota? He said (in Minnesota like accent) "No, people from Minnesota sound like they're from Alberta".
Unfortunately he had a stroke in Feb this year and did not recover, passed a week later. Played golf with him in the AM, collapsed at 4 PM, was rushed to a hospital in Phoenix. Two days later flown back to Alberta. Never regained consciousness. He was only 66, wondering if it was vaccine related?
There’s a very high probability that he was vaccinated. Non-citizens haven’t been allowed into the US without proof of vaccination since around the third quarter of 2021. It’s possible that the Customs and Border Patrol people asked your friend if he was vaccinated and he said yes when he wasn’t. That’s been done successfully by others, but a person would be turned back if they were asked for proof and couldn’t provide it.