And than there is Europe where you live in Luxemburg, work in Germany, went to school in Belgium, have a boyfriend in France and visit your parents every week in the Netherlands...

I, with my Canadian father and American mother, am living proof that the "no touching zone" thing doesn't always work.

I accidently crossed into Canada during a hunting trip and the Canadian trooper I ran into was super nice and gave me a ride back to my truck and gave me some home made jerky he smoked. Carlson with the CSBA is great officer.

And now, as of June 22, 2022, Canada's "whiskey war" with Denmark is finally over. The "war" was "fought" over HANS ISLAND, which both countries claimed. The Canadians started the war by raising their flag over the island and leaving a bottle of whiskey when they left. Then Denmark arrived and took down the Canadian flag, respectfully, and raised the Danish flag, leaving a bottle of Cognac. This process was repeated every so often over the years. Now Canada and Denmark have agreed to share the island.

"How did this shipwreck happen?! Couldn't you see the lighthouse you crashed into?" "According to me there is no lighthouse because the island is American"

It reminds me of two siblings on vacation who have to sleep in the same hotel bed so they bunch up towels between them

The US and Canada really took the "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you!" and "Stay on your own side!" banter siblings do to whole nother level!😂😂

Living in Australia all this border stuff is really fascinating!

Canada: MOM America is touching my Island, It has my lighthouse on it America: *Eyes closed* I don't see any Lighthouse

Person: I think I found oil on the no-touching zone. USA: who said that was a no-touching zone?

Im from upstate NY. There have been several times that I have driven (drove? idk) into Canada by accident. There are areas where it just turns into Canada. You can tell because all the road signs immediately shift into km and french. Weirded me out.

As a British Columbian Canadian who lives less than 20 minutes from the border, I find this fascinating. I never knew there was a "no-touching zone" on the entire border. I just thought is was a gap in the forest from logging. And the fact that there are some parts where you have to cross the border to reach another part of your own country is equally interesting.

I love how the US and Canada diligently Co-manage a "no touching zone" that maintains the border exactly... and meanwhile in europe some farmer moved a rock slightly which changed the border France, and it took them like 3 years to even notice...

As a truck driver one day I just drove to the border, hopped out of my truck and walked over towards Canada an back to United States a few times and said I crossed the border three times and that was it. Because I was alone it wasn't that much fun

My dad used to be a teacher up in Blaine Washington and still to this day complains about “why don’t we just give point roberts to Canada” because so many of his students showed up late to school whenever there was the slightest issue at the border

Years ago, I was surveying boundaries of a National Forest. It had been done before in the 1800's. They did an amazing job considering they only had a compass and a chain. We did find one error that was significant enough to cause Forest Service having to move a large park entrance sign maybe 50 feet.

I find international border stuff fascinating, coming from Australia it's a new concept.

I heard that if you cross the No Touching Zone heading north and don't present your passport you get chased by Moose armed with guns that shoot Timbits.

Imagine living in that one town where you could say “ back in my day I had to cross 4 borders just to get to school”

I do like how this is the equivalent of the tape border through a shared bedroom except under this circumstance, both sides are quite amicable about it. Siblings, take note, you can have your half and still be friendly ^-^

I think we need a referendum to officially name it the No-Touching Zone.

One of my neighbors actually works every summer on maintaining that 20 foot gap.

My social studies teacher told me he knew someone who was hunting by the border here in minnesota, he said out of curiosity he wanted to see if he could walk into canada and when he tried a drone started following him so he just left it at that.

Growing up I lived on Grosse Ile, an Island south of Detroit MI at the mouth of the Detroit River and Lake Erie. My house was on the east side of the Island and the view out of my window was of the Detroit River and Canada. I lived right on the boarder which was down the middle of the Livingston Channel (roughly). I was closer to Canada than the main land of the US. I never thought of that as being somewhat unique growing up but I guess it kind of is.

3:55 : how my parents described them going to school in their home town

When my cousin went to uni in Montreal, he met a friend that lived in that aforementioned town going over the border. it's another very small town. There, people can cross the border freely to get to the other side of town and often go to work in either country. They also use both currencies for regular daily transactions. Pretty neat.

One of my high school teachers grew up in one of those border states. I forget which one. He was a Vietnam vet so this would’ve been in the 50’s. He talked about how when they used to go hunting they knew where the border was because there were no trees, but they would hunt in Canada and Canadians would hunt in the states. Because nobody cared.

One time my GPS took me straight into Canada without crossing customs, just a dirt road. I guess you can say I was an illegal alien..

Props to both countries for not going to war with each other over border disputes.

U forgot that it's the longest unguarded border. People are idiots and will stumble across borders if not confronted by guards or ridiculous clearings. Take for example the kids who lived in Alberta and wandered across while playing Pokemon go and had to be deported 100 metres.

Them guessing blindely how the border should go because that part of the map was coverd up is actually hilarious

There's a town in northern Vermont called "Derby Line". It's bordered on the north by Stanstead,Quebec. Near the Haskell Library is a spot that represents the actual border that doesn't have a fence or a wall....just flower pots.

Is it just me, or is this whole situation hilaroius?

What happens if you touch the no-touching zone?

2:06 the way you say that just makes me grin

The NW Angle (2:30) had a one room school house until 1990s. Now it is an international school bus route to Warroad school district. Also, border station at NW angle is just a telephone (or at least it was last time I knew).

Despite being a canadian myself I do not care who owns that lighthouse I just want our two countries to get along

Who gets paid to cut the grass in the no touching zone?

2:00 The States should've built a bigger lighthouse. It's waay funnier than being blind

It’s crazy to me that some spots have a full on military checkpoint like say fort Erie and other spots it’s just a forest you can walk across and nobody would ever know.

When he says "no touching zone" I imagine America waving near it going "I'm not *touching* it" like an annoying little sibling

USA: So how are we gonna cut forest in half/ boarder. Canada: Highly trained beaver’s

I love hiking up to the border and just seeing the zone between and the border markers. It’s very fun and it’s a beautiful hike on the way from where I am

2:09 the way he says puffins is just... *chef's kiss*

I was talking with a friend who grew up in Wisconsin. There was a road that looped up through Canada and back. You couldn't get to the road from the Canada side. So the high school kids figured out they could drive into Canada and drink and party, and the WI authorities couldn't do anything, and the Canadian authorities couldn't get to them to do anything. If course the Mounties finally ended up hiking or horseback or something, and the kids got their asses busted and the party thing shut down. Fun while it lasted though.

the most boring border is between germany and the netherlands cause there is no border just a sign on the autobahn that says WIKOMMEN IN DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND, KAMERAD you wouldnt even know that you entered without that sign

Stanstead is probably the most fascinating thing about canadian and USA border. There's in that town a library where you can see a line on the floor which you can cross ; technically it means you could be in both country at the same time!

i live in a border town, i fish on a lake 1/2 in usa 1/2 in canada. you can get pretty big fines for catching fish on the wrong side so best not drift too far over

Good fences make good neighbors. Canada is the best neighbor any country could ask for.

On a semi-related note... maple (syrup) smugglers are a legit thing, guys. It's liquid gold so far as the Northeast is concerned.

The "No Touching Zone" also serves to help keep forest fires on one side of the border.

I saw this border cut through the trees along the Alaskan/Yukon border back in 1972. It cut through the forest as far as the eye could see.

I lived in Canada for past 10 years, and this is one of the most, possibly just the most, interesting thing I learned about Canada.

When I was 15 (I'm now 62) we went on a boat tour of the Thousand Island region of the ST. Lawrence. I seem to recall the tour guide pointing out a small bridge between two islands and stated that it was the shortest international bridge in the world, one island in Canada and the other in America, both owned by the same family. Now I wonder if those islands were twenty feet apart. I took the same tour in 2002 with my family and that same information wasn't pointed out so I don't know if it is still true. Either way the scenery was beautiful and Boldt Castle was really cool.

Another funny one is Stewart B.C and Hyder Alaska, when leaving Canada you can pass freely into Alaska but upon return you need some I.D. Hyder has a population of about 80 people and relies heavily in Stewart for pretty much everything. Once you are in Hyder there aren't any roads that lead further Into Alaska, it's one strange little town. If you ever visit do not forget to get Hyderized.

We drove to the border on up north of Polebridge Montana a couple years ago just to say we did. I didn’t realize until then that there was the no touching zone. One other note; at that location there is also a fairly deep trench dug on the boarder (I don’t know how far the trench goes from the gate) Local guy said it’s to help prevent people crossing in vehicles. An ATV would have no issue, but I don’t think a regular car/suv could make it through. This was once an operating border crossing until 9/11. Both Canada and the US sides had quite a few cameras and sensors on towers. He claimed if you walked across a ways that some boarder patrol folks would show up. Wasn’t in the mood to test that theory, so I took his word for it!

0:26 I guess you could say it’s an... international airport! Eyyyyyy

Things were very tough for Point Roberts the past couple of years. The residents got cut off from border crossing and Canadian visitors who obviously play a huge role in their economy.

Oversimplified:Straight line? Straight line. Grey:very bizarre

You know I had a sudden thought about sibling shenanigans. Even with your closest siblings, one tends to draw the line to define what belongs to who. And it seems that same concept also applies to sister nations. I'm reminded of dividing a shared bedroom with my sister.

It's like the U.S. and Canada are having the world's stupidest slap fight.

Can someone make their own nation in the "no-touching zone"?

My nephew who is from Buffalo, NY is a US border guard and was originally in stationed in Laredo, TX. It took a few transfers to get back home. When I mentioned to a friend that he was finally back home in Buffalo, she asked why there would be border patrol agents in Buffalo because there us no border there.

I've spent a few months on one of the islands in Lake of the Woods at the tippy top of Minnesota, so it was a little funny seeing that area shown in detail in a UKposts video.

ngl I really like the idea of The United States and Canada being these obviously different but also clearly related siblings showing up to crash the Europeans fancy parties and occasionally seeing their favorite cousins (also siblings ) New Zealand and Australia

FUN FACT: A team of trained Canadian beavers are used to maintain the 'no touching zone' While our beavers keep the trees at bay, American eagles are known to keep a close eye for border jumping beavers.

In washington state, in the last 10 years, if you're hunting on foot and get even close to that line, suddenly a border patrol agent will appear and want to know what you're doing. Not sure what kind of surveilance they use, but it's comprehensive. I wasnt aware the northern border posed a threat to national securitylike that.

So basically, one could hike the Canadian-USA border for the most part from east to west within that open zone as long as you stayed on the right side. There might be a few places one would have to detour. That could become the 4th great hike in the 3 currently considered the greatest in the USA.

🇬🇧: Okay you guys play with ☃️ 🛢️ 🇺🇸: The oil is mine 🇨🇦: Fine I’ll get the longer winter

If oil is found there, we're going have to send some freedom there.

I use to work at Ross Lake, North Cascades National Park .Where you had to go into Canada to get to the park. So we spent a lot of time in Canada.

As an additional note, domestic animals that wander across the border are subject to formal entry with CBP and Canadian Customs.

I love how Canada and the USA are locked in an eternal round of "I'm not touching you"

Great Britain: Now you kids play nicely. Canada and America: We will! Later.... Canada: My half! America: My half!

Except in the Boundary Waters/Quantico area, there is no border band of twenty feet in the park that I saw. That border was a little/ a lot lax when it comes to campers with canoes needing to get down a lake and the only natural route to walk it with your gear and canoes is for a brief journey on a portage through the Quetico to get get around a small falls and rapids on Long Lake,

Living on the border I find people are surprised that there are also marker buoys in the lakes with flashing lights on them to mark the border.

The border crossing airports started in WWII as a way for planes built in the US to be towed across the border to Canada where they were flown to the UK to be used. As the US was not yet at war with Germany this was a fudging way around the laws which were a little vague on purpose,

Man, I'm sorry this video missed my favorite border irregularity (also known as the one that's where I'm from). The border between where Maine (then a part of Massachusetts) ended and New Brunswick and Quebec began was so disputed we went to war. Not joking. "The Aroostook War." Also known as the 'Bloodless Aroostook War,' which also featured the declaration of the independent nation the Republic of Madawaska until it was resolved. Thus the plethora of forts in the northernmost county of Maine, including Fort Kent and Fort Fairfield among others. The border was set to its current lines (largely following the St. John River Valley, which also means we didn't need to cut a swath as we have a river that does that for us) with the signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which established the border and ended the war. (Most of the territory was ceded to America, but the treaty ensured an overland route between Lower Canada and the Maritimes, so everyone went home satisfied and there were never non-cigarettes-or-potato based border disputes ever again. Well, until the 2000s when the casual-cross-border relationship that defined the St. John Valley's economic web got scuttled post 9/11.)

I once accidentally crossed the border while boating on Osoyoos lake. We were pretty quickly surrounded and escorted back across the imaginary line

Kind of like making a No Touching Zone on your plate. Clearly defined lines that divide the food without touching each other.

I lose my shit at the fact that some kids have to cross the state border 4 times a day to go to school 😂😂😂 shitty border planning at its best

It's so brotherly love between the two nations. I hope Canada and America will always have a good relationship with each other.

What lighthouse?

That's fascinating I did not know that at all you have a new subscriber very entertaining

Canada, thanks for being Americas Hat and keeping the cold from being on us.

1:23 alright, who photoshopped that creeper in the background?

Usually these no touching zones are also used as pipelines, they need them to not touch so they can be worked on undergroud

Wooded areas cut like that serve as a fire break as well.

Anyone notice something strange about the photo at 1:24???

0:38 Hidden Mickey. Dammit Disney, you infiltrate everything.

Hiked along the border in New Hampshire to the 4th Connecticut Lake. Hikes started in US at the border crossing.

I live near the Texas/Mexican border and we literally buy tamales through the border fence holes. A guy in Mexico roles his tamale cart up and down the border wall. You slip him some peso's through the fence, and a tamale comes to you.

I don't know why but learning about these maps and borders made me laugh really hard. I just can't stop laughing.

"Let's hope this disagreement gets resolved before someone finds oil under that light house" LOL. Just imagine if that happened.

Thank you now I have a little bit more weird trivia that I love to learn about.

No touching zones are very important! I can remember when I was 6 there were no touching zones in the back seat of my parents car when we were on the family vacation! I had sisters!!!

Canada: NO TOUCHING! America: STOP TOUCHING IT! Canada: YOU STARTED IT! America:NO YOU DID! Mexico:Amigos... Just, stop.

I cant believe I never knew that there was a massive line of cut down trees showing the border.

you forgot peace park in North Dekota a joint managed piece of land that belongs to both sides of the border worth seeing

Zero ave ( a mile or two east of the peace arch , in the west ) is a quite long road on the border and is easy to hop over ( visiting the house opposite for instance ) ! ...........