Point Roberts

I was a kid.

I wasn't, I was going home to Point Roberts and chain smoking.

And I think that...

I think that, you know, many children of my generation who are born and raised in the United States, whose families have been in the United States for a very long time, we were very sheltered to a certain extent.

Speaking of which, there are other geographic anomalies like Campobello Island.

You've probably heard about Point Roberts.

I'm pretty sure we talked to some people from Point Roberts.

This is, according to Wikipedia, a penny exclave.

of the U.S. state of Washington.

It drops down like an appendix from British Columbia.

And it's an anomaly because it was created by the fact that when they negotiated in the 19th century the border between the U.S. and Canada, they said it's going to be the 49th parallel.

And the problem is that Point Roberts sticks out just a little bit and across the 49th parallel.

No.

I lived like out of Vancouver in Point Roberts.

So I was like, I drove home every

day.

able to maintain that indifference to the old Starbuck here as the season went on? Yeah.

No, because we never ended up going and hiking or golfing or anything like that.

No, and she also, like she said, like lived in Point Roberts.

And, you know, it's like if everyone is on...

Well, Canada's tariff war with the United States has really hit border cities hard.

With the escalation of tariffs and counter-tariffs, it's, you know, it's, it's rattling for everyone, and there is certainly this elbows up campaign that has Canadians curtailing their sojourns to places like Point Roberts, which isn't far from Vancouver.

Joining us now is Darryl Marquett.

He's owner of TSB Shipping.

No, thank you.

Thanks a lot for calling.

First of all, tell us what it's like right now in Point Roberts.

Does it feel like a ghost town?

Mm-hmm

... [laughs] for, like, the rest of the day? [sighs] My car died in Point Roberts on Saturday.

Oh.

Uh, and I j- I just wanna say, before I tell you the story, the details, I, I wa- I just wanna say I w- I was reminded and just want to acknowledge that, you know, things are weird and different between Canada and the US right now, but I was reminded in this situation that that does not mean that things are weird between Canadian and American people-

...

when you boil it down.

Uh, so yes, my car died in Point Roberts.

I was running an errand.

I mean, it is something that can be done.

If you happen to know somebody in Blaine or Point Roberts, for example, you can certainly do that.

There are also virtual mailboxes or post office boxes that you can get in Point Roberts.

Just looking it up now, there's a parcel, it looks like, in Point Roberts that would also do it.

So you can look around and find them.

They do exist.

So right now I would suggest it's tough, but yes, there are ways around it.

Okay.

Just give us a sense, Berkey, through your eyes exactly, 25 years later, how you look back on 9-11 and all that's happened since then.

Well, that day I was driving to the U.S. side of the border from Vancouver to Point Roberts to meet Dave Nones.

When Neil McCrae, the late great broadcaster called me, said there's been a, someone, some nut flew a plane into the World Trade Towers.

And he called back and said a second one hit.