Border closing 12-8am
From the Alaska Dispatch..CDN border between Hyder Alaska and Stewart going to be a challenge for some. http://www.adn.com/article/20150227/southeast-alaska-town-bristles-over-canadian-decision-c...
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Hyder Alaska is also the only area of Alaska that does not use the 907 area code. They use the 250 of BC. Up until a few years back, the state of Alaska did not run a school in Hyder, so BC bused the Hyder kids to Stewart for school every day. There are some Hyderites that went all 12 years to school in Stewart BC. As far as I know, BC never charged the out of country, Alaska kids to attend. The Alaska kids just learned to sing, God save the Queen, like every one else.
But on a much more serious note, with alchohol being so much cheaper in the US, due to the different tax structures, many from Stewart would drive over to Hyder to the bar to drink in the evenings. Now they have to be back into Canada by midnight or spend the night in Hyder Alaska. Major problem for some of those folks as well as the bar owners in Hyder.
Not sure the closing of the Canadian station would have any effect on leaving Canada for Hyder. We never have had to stop on the way over to Hyder, just on the way back to Stewart. Don't see how that would change any.
But on a much more serious note, with alchohol being so much cheaper in the US, due to the different tax structures, many from Stewart would drive over to Hyder to the bar to drink in the evenings. Now they have to be back into Canada by midnight or spend the night in Hyder Alaska. Major problem for some of those folks as well as the bar owners in Hyder.
Not sure the closing of the Canadian station would have any effect on leaving Canada for Hyder. We never have had to stop on the way over to Hyder, just on the way back to Stewart. Don't see how that would change any.
