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    Americans Go Home: Canadians Track U.S. Boaters Sneaking Across The Border

    U.S. pleasure boats have been sneaking into Canada despite a border shutdown. A group of Canadian retirees is on the lookout for violators from the "petri dish" that is America.
    by Martha Ann Overland Aug 02, 2020 3 minutes
    George Creek monitors boating traffic from his home overlooking the Trincomali Channel in British Columbia.

    Canadians are typically seen as pretty friendly people, and until the coronavirus pandemic, most were happy to welcome Americans.

    But when the coronavirus began to quickly spread in March, the U.S. and Canada shut their shared border to all nonessential traffic.

    Since then, Canada's border patrol has effectively prevented caravans of Americans — and their RVs and their campers — from surging across the border as they normally do

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