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POINT ROBERTS, Wash. — In 1846, after decades of haggling, American and British diplomats finally agreed on a border between the U.S. Northwest and what would later become Canada. Following the 49th parallel west from the Rocky Mountains almost to Vancouver Island, the boundary sliced straight across a peninsula that jutted south from Canada, leaving 4.8 square miles on the American side. Point Roberts, Washington, long prospered as an appendage of Canada. Its economy thrived on sales of gasoline, groceries and alcohol at prices considered a bargain by Canadians, whose frequent visits he...

Inslee flies to Point Roberts to hear from the community that remains isolated by border closure The town of Point Roberts, Washington, is surrounded by water on three sides and has been isolated during the pandemic due to the U.S.-Canada border closure. Author: Chris Daniels Updated: 5:49 PM PDT July 9, 2021 POINT ROBERTS, Wash. — Washington state's governor landed in a small Cessna plane on a grassy field Friday, and then helped push the plane back. It was an odd sight, at this odd site, in a COVID-related chapter that appears to have no end in, well, sight...

Governor visits town isolated by US-Canada border closure July 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail POINT ROBERTS, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s governor traveled to the exclave of Point Roberts on Friday to visit residents who have been voicing concern for months about the border closure between the U.S. and Canada that has essentially cut them off from both countries. Point Roberts is on the tip of a peninsula south of Vancouver, British Columbia, that juts into U.S. territory. It’s part of Washington, but separated from the rest of the state. Gov. Jay Inslee was greeted Friday by a few doz...

Point Roberts' fire chief says all town's businesses on verge of ruin The Peace Arch border crossing in Blaine. (File photo) A community teetering on the edge of financial collapse — that is the reality that the fire chief of Point Roberts says the U.S./Canada border closure has forced upon his town. After 16 months of the border being shut to both sides, Point Roberts Fire Chief Christopher Carleton says the small, waterfront town is all but destroyed. The community shares a land border only with Canada, and can only be accessed from the rest of Washington b...

Richard Read12:02, Jun 25 2021 Makaristos/wikimedia commons The international boundary between Canada and the United States in Point Roberts, Washington. In 1846, after decades of haggling, American and British diplomats finally agreed on a border between the US Northwest and what would later become Canada. Following the 49th parallel west from the Rocky Mountains almost to Vancouver Island, the boundary sliced straight across a peninsula that jutted south from Canada, leaving 4.8 square miles (12.4 sq km) on the American side. Point Roberts, Washington, long prospered as an appendage of Ca...