Laurier–Cascade Border Crossing
border crossing between Canada and the United States
The Laurier–Cascade Border Crossing connects the town of Kettle Falls, Washington with Christina Lake, British Columbia on the Canada–US border. US Route 395 on the American side joins British Columbia Highway 395 on the Canadian side.
Canadian side
In 1895, Cascade City was surveyed to form a townsite as a base for prospecting and a stop on the anticipated westward extension of the Columbia and Western Railway (C&W).
By 1897, the mining boom was drawing numerous prospectors from south of the border. To address the consequences, a customs office opened that year in the town. In August 1899, the rail head of the C&W, a Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiary, reached the town. The same year, the customs office came under the administrative oversight of the Port of Grand Forks.
Under the Washington and Great Northern Railway (W&GN) charter, the Great Northern Railway (GN) laid track northward from Marcus (WA), reaching the border in March 1902. On completion of the ongoing track, Canada Customs applied seals to those freight cars entering at Carson and Cascade, which were purely transiting between these two points.
In 1932, new customs facilities were erected.
“Laurier–Cascade Border Crossing” enters the record as border crossing between Canada and the United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Laurier, Cascade and Border can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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