FF: Unrestricted Travel Between UK and Canada??

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> Saitaina wrote:
> 
> > Which is odd as we can hop the Mexican/US
> > boarder on a whim with no problem.    I did
> > it all the time when I was in California
> > growing up.
> 
> My Canadian friends could do that too. They just needed some kind 
of 
> ID if I remember well. But for me, or whoever wasn't either 
American 
> or Canadian, we had to have our passports with us. I once traveled 
> with a bunch of Canadians, our driver was Australian, and for sure 
> both she and I got checked thoroughly at the border.
> 
> Del

Now me. We used to be able to cross into the US by just showing a 
driver's licence, which at that time did not even have a photo! Now 
one needs either (a) a passport (b) a Canadian birth certificate and 
1 piece of photo id (usually a driver's licence) or (c) two pieces 
of photo id. This put me in a bit of a bind a year ago when I 
decided at the last minute to attend a conference in Vegas. My 
passport had expired, and the only piece of photo id I had was my 
DL. Unfortunately, even though I'm a full fledged sixth generation 
Canadian, I was born in Montreal in the sixties. For some reason, 
the provincial government didn't issue Canadian birth certificates 
back then. So my travel agent suggested I obtain another piece of 
photo id, known as an "age of majority" card. This card can be 
quickly obtained by going to a local liquor store. It's purpose is 
to prove that you are old enough to be allowed to buy liquor. So 
there I was, every day of 40 years old, at the local beer store, 
asking the clerk for a photo id to prove I was over 18! You should 
have seen the look of consternation on the poor woman's face as she 
tried to tactfully explain that she didn't think I would need an age 
of majority card to get service at the counter!

Gave me a laugh!  MMcK.