Forgotten Facts About The Blacks Who Built The Alaska-Canada Highway
Posted on 08/30/2020 3:23:28 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
I look at it this way, I knew before the last election Andrew Scheer could not beat him, so here he is in another term in office that’s been spent mostly mired in more arrogance and incompetence and scandal and this is now really doing harm to the Liberal brand. See my other post just below yours.
Does one need a 4 wheel drive to take that route? I know all about the 7 car to Shea stadium. John Rocker taught me about it.
Don’t pay - retire in a Canadian prison!
Free health care!
Take classes!
> Try getting caught in Canada with a firearm that you didn’t go through all the hoops to bring in! <
A friend of mine occasionally went up to Canada to fish. He never once brought a gun with him. But every time he crossed into Canada, the Canadian border folks would pull him over and search his car.
He never could figure out why he was being singled out. Then it hit him. He had an NRA sticker on the rear bumper of his car. He removed it. No more problems with the Canadian border folks.
It is a shame the way the western provinces are at the mercy of the higher population centers of the eastern areas. I guess there is no chance they could break away. If they did the world would be shocked how quickly they would grow with Ottawa’s shackles removed.
they don’t have half a dollar
he should have said he was mexican
Canada-the whitest country I’ve seen. The only blacks I saw were walking the streets-females.
Forgotten Facts About The Blacks Who Built The Alaska-Canada Highway
The “Great White North” ain’t about no Shark!
Pull stupid stunts, win stupid prizes...
Just take the Ferry from Seattle
We had looked at taking some ferries for the return south but stayed on the road.
And it was great.
Yep!!!
Yet they have been under our protection
Time to raise the price
There are historical black communities in Canada but for the most part what you say is true. However the larger urban centers have sizeable populations of blacks. Not US urban level and the makeup is mostly immigrant from the Caribbean and other parts of the British Commonwealth. Because the black population is mostly immigrant going back a few generations at most it doesn’t have the racial divide in exactly the same way that exists in the US.
Blacks built the road:
And did a very nice job.
Except for the Cassiar shortcut thing.
Well, you don’t have to be an “Ugly American” (remember that one?).
“Pennington had already been cautioned (and fined) by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police earlier in the trip but had continued to flout the law.”
Theyve done a lot of importing into their urban centers.
Bump
I travelled up to Canada in the late spring of 2015, just by myself, going on a road trip.
Middle aged, white, short hair, glasses, wearing a military hat.
I had been driving for several hours straight (through northern Maine) when I hit the border
I figured I would stop and use a men’s room at the border crossing facility, which was good, because at that point, my bladder was karate kicking me from inside.
When I got to the Canadian Border, they asked me questions, then told me to pull my car to the side and come inside the building. When I came in (around 20:00) there was one person in this big deserted room with benches, and when I asked him if I could use the men’s room, he said no. I had to wait.
So I had to urinate pretty badly at this time, but felt like I had no option, so I paced back and forth, because as we all know, that can get pretty uncomfortable
After about five minutes, two border guards came out (male and female) and walked me to my car, asking me questions about whether I owned guns, etc. and then proceeded to take the entire car apart. Took my luggage out and completely emptied it, pulled out floor mats, emptied my glove compartment, emptied my trunk, searched the engine compartment, etc.
The female pulls my container of prescription pills out (to save space when going on short trips, I just take what I need and throw them all into one container) and asks what they were, so I explain each one, and she admonishes me and says “You shouldn’t put them together in one container” which starts to REALLY piss me off. They are pulling other stuff out saying “What’s this? Why do you have this?”, etc.
Then, they pull my secured gun safe from under my seat, and ask if I had a gun in it. I said no, I already told them about a half dozen times I did not have a gun with me. They asked me to open it, and for some reason, the key didn’t work. At this point, I had to go so badly I said “Look. Why don’t you get a crowbar and force it open? I really have to go to the men’s room.” But I did finally get the blamed thing open.
All this took about 30-45 minutes, and by the end of it, as anyone who has ever had to go that badly knows, you almost begin to salivate from the discomfort.
I was pretty angry about this.
To make it worse, on the way home the next day (only stayed one night) I got stopped by two police cruisers outside of St. Johns as I was heading South, where again, I was asked several times if I owned guns.
Turns out they stopped me because I had apparently not paid for a tank of gasoline about forty miles back, and they called the RCMP. When they told me I didn’t pay, I was pretty adamant that I had, but agreed to drive back and straighten it out.
As soon as I walked back into the gas station, the guy behind the counter was abjectly apologetic, and said “I told them not to be hard on you, it was an accident!” We had a good laugh.
It was due to confusion about the difference in the way credit card readers work up there, and I had ended up paying for a soft drink I purchased, not the gasoline.
Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling any love from North of the Border. Don’t feel like going back up again.
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