border visit february 9, 2020

Sunday, February 9th, 2020. Afternoon at Roxham Road, USA.

We arrived at about 3:30 .  Roxham Road had been well ploughed after the big storm on Friday. In total 10 people crossed into Canada while we were there (5 adults and 5 children). 

Just after 4pm two taxis arrive one after the other. One taxi might have come from the airport.   The first taxi brought a family from Haiti. The  parents were in their 30s and their three children were aged about 6, 11 and 18 years old.   All very happy to receive warm mitts and scarves. They spoke French and were very appreciative of our presence .

The second taxi had another young family also from Haiti but they only spoke English suggesting they had been in the US for some time. The  parents were also in their early 30s  and had two young children, about  5 and 2  years old.  

The last taxi arrived about 15 minutes later. It brought , a young woman - aged about 20 years old from South Africa. She was happy to take a scarf from us. 

The RCMP behaved appropriately and kept to their protocol.