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From: "tpollard" <>
Subject: Re: [ONTARIO] Fw: Border crossing from USA to Canada
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:24:25 -0400
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My father crossed the border from Bflo. to Fort Erie daily for many years to
work. He eventually became a landed immigrant in F. E.
I crossed the border daily from F. E. to Bflo. to work in Bflo. I did this
for 25 yrs. I had to have a "Green Card" to do this and register annually.
It was a much less complicated process in those days.
Tom
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From: "Joyce Stevens" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ONTARIO] Fw: Border crossing from USA to Canada


> Was the border crossing common from Canada to Buffalo c.1900?
>
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> Doreen provided the following information:
>
> "There is a register of border crossings in Ancestry and it shows an entry
> for a James F. Finnigan, age 27, married, a waiter living in at 65
> Courtland
> St., Buffalo, NY and employed at Erie Downs Golf Course. He gives his
> place
> of birth as Liverpool, England, religion RC, his nationality as English
> and
> his race as Irish. This border crossing is entered as "Bridgeburg" -
> which
> is the Peace Bridge at Niagara, entering canada on 29 September 1929. I
> cannot find any other entry for him of an earlier date."
> For what it is worth, Erie Downs (now Bridgewater) was/is in Canada, just
> outside of Bridgeburg (now Fort Erie). If he lived in Buffalo and worked
> at
> Erie Downs, he must have been commuting, either by ferry or on a small
> commuter train called "The Dummy", or via the Peace Bridge. The daily
> commute between Buffalo and Bridgeburg was quite common at that time.
> Tom
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