I cross quite a few times a year at Sarnia and Windsor to go back home to the US to visit. I have a work permit, so that makes things easier. But, just don't mention work. Just say, I'm here to visit friends for a couple days in Kingston, Montreal, Toronto.
-nruest On Jan 25, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Walter Lewis wrote: > On 25 Jan 10, at 11:23 AM, MJ Suhonos wrote: > >> Might only be an issue crossing at the Detroit-Windsor border, though. Not >> sure how broadly his opinion may have spread beyond the state. > > I think the key to the troubles at Windsor can be linked either to > a) Art Rhyno confessing at the border crossing he was going to be paid for > going to a library conference (some XML thing), or > b) an American (name slips my mind) who ran into issues coming to Access when > it was held in Windsor. > > In short, it isn't a general US/Canadian border problem. The evidence would > suggest it is directly related the the University of Windsor's Leddy Library > being too close to the bridge over the Detroit River. > > Walter ------------------------------------------------------------ Nick Ruest Digital Strategies Librarian McMaster University Mills Memorial Library 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6 Phone: 905.525.9140 ext. 21276 Email: rue...@mcmaster.ca http://library.mcmaster.ca/contact/ruest-nicholas http://nruest.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ "Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a personal process embedded in the human spirit." - Abbie Hoffman