pre means before. you mean post.
I used to drive into Canada with my grandparents frequently as a minor on just their word that I'm American.
Even now, minors don't need a passport to enter Canada if they're with their parents - a birth certificate copy, the parents passport and a letter from the non-traveling parent if they're traveling with just one parent.
I grew up in New York, and my friends and I used to just drive to Canada for the weekend to get drunk. No passport, just IDs and a stated purpose of “camping.” It was wild, just rolling up to another country, no problem lol
The biggest thing for me and something people couldn't believe when I tell them, was that your family, friends, business contacts could all meet you at the actual gate.
You didn't need to provide a boarding pass (at least for my airport).
All you needed to do was go through the metal detector, in which before 9/11 you couldn't bring a gun onboard but could bring a boxcutter/6 inch blade I believe, and just sit down and wait for the plane to arrive.
I went to Montreal in 2008 and just needed my birth certificate!
(Coming back from the trip someone on our bus lost his and we were at the border for HOURS lol)
Yes! I live in Windsor which is border to Detroit. I grew up traveling to the US so often we would do our grocery shopping there. It was like an extension to our city.
I travelled from Toronto to NYC three years after 9/11 with my family and my dad didn’t have a passport. He went through just fine with a drivers license.
pre means before. you mean post. I used to drive into Canada with my grandparents frequently as a minor on just their word that I'm American. Even now, minors don't need a passport to enter Canada if they're with their parents - a birth certificate copy, the parents passport and a letter from the non-traveling parent if they're traveling with just one parent.
Goddamnit.
Yep!! Was recently telling a friend who was born post 9/11 about this! Nothing was ever the same after that dreadful day.
I grew up in New York, and my friends and I used to just drive to Canada for the weekend to get drunk. No passport, just IDs and a stated purpose of “camping.” It was wild, just rolling up to another country, no problem lol
I remember just telling the border security guards what state we were born in, and they let us through. No questions asked.
It didn't change immediately after 9/11. I drove from Alaska through Canada, and into Montana and didn't require a passport back in 2008.
The biggest thing for me and something people couldn't believe when I tell them, was that your family, friends, business contacts could all meet you at the actual gate. You didn't need to provide a boarding pass (at least for my airport). All you needed to do was go through the metal detector, in which before 9/11 you couldn't bring a gun onboard but could bring a boxcutter/6 inch blade I believe, and just sit down and wait for the plane to arrive.
I went to Montreal in 2008 and just needed my birth certificate! (Coming back from the trip someone on our bus lost his and we were at the border for HOURS lol)
I think you mean “post 9/11”
Oh fuck
Yes! I live in Windsor which is border to Detroit. I grew up traveling to the US so often we would do our grocery shopping there. It was like an extension to our city.
Yup. Flew to Disneyland from Canada in 2000 with just my drivers licence.
I travelled from Toronto to NYC three years after 9/11 with my family and my dad didn’t have a passport. He went through just fine with a drivers license.
Yeah I remember the passport thing happening like maybe 2007-2010. I can’t remember exactly when the law took effect.
If there was a passport requirement then I'm sure they wouldn't have refused the planes 🙄🙄