Northern Minnesota businesses anxiously waiting for Canadian border to re-open
It's been a long 15 months since the U.S.- Canada border has been closed to non-essential travelers.
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It's been a long 15 months since the U.S.- Canada border has been closed to non-essential travelers.
Covid may be waning. But businesses at the Northwest Angle, a tourist-dependent slice of Minnesota accessible by land only from Canada, still feel the pain.
Author of the article: Bronson Carver Publishing date: May 13, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 3 minute read • Article content At a time when travel at the Manitoba-Ontario border is restricted, Americans from the Northwest Angle in Minnesota are being directed by Canadian officials to make their way to places like Kenora for essentials. As a part of Minnesota, the Northwest Angle is tucked away in the northwestern corner of Lake of the Woods, cut off by water to the rest of the United States but sharing a sizeable land border with Manitoba. Just over 100 Americans live there, call...
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