So, are you good Canucks enjoying it?

Evnin Waigoon, Bill here, not so much the lack of Yanks but no tourists around. That's nice, no idiots at the launch ramp, don't have to wait behind someone cleaning there car out to get gas, a few at the pop shop but mostly locals who are considerate & polite. A few obviously going to there cottages but know it's wrong so they look the other way & hurry along. Traffic is light, that's nice. Mostly truckers on the hiway. Tell me is there many tourists up around Wabigoon in summer? We think that's way up north, but there's lots of main towns in the US that are close & Manitobas not to far away. Just curious as that piece of property hasn't sold yet. Thanks I'm out. 🐾👣🐾👣🇨🇦

Here in the Maritimes, we get a lot of tourists from Ont, Quebec and the eastern States esp from Florida.

We will be missing all of them this year. Here in Saint John, we were to get almost 100 cruise ships this season. All cancelled. Big loss on all front to the tourism business here in NB, also NS, PEI and NL.

GW not like there were years ago. From what I see, traffic has been light for years now. Polar Star lodge got shut down on some code issue a few years ago. Ten years ago there would be several boats going out in the morning, and coming back later in the day.

I was too late renting a stall at the roofed over dock they had. It's falling in the lake now, I'm told.

More drugs went thru that place than fish.

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Howdy Richard, I certainly feel for the local tourist outfitters !

Many of them either customers or friends.

Nancy & Len Davis sold Bonny Bay in February/March, I'm sure the new owners from Manitoba weren't banking on a "bust" their first year !

I am thankful our business does not rely on tourism, in any way !

Hopefully you can make it up, late summer/fall, to enjoy our peace & refresh !

I'm putting a "Care Package". together for you Paul, to scrimp by till then!

Yeah, we still have some ex pats , draft Dodgers from before.
Yanks are our best friends and are welcome, especially farm and Ranch folk. City people ,I will take a pass on.

I gotta think the outfitter camps, bait shops, motels, etc are gonna be feeling it. I'd sure like to be hooking the boat to the Silverado and pointing it northwest in about 2 weeks. Sure do miss the June walleye bite and the AWESOME scenery that goes with it in the woods up HWY 599 a bit. I've dumped a PILE of tourist cash along HWY 17 from the Soo to Ignace over the years.

wabigoon;
Good afternoon or I suppose evening to you now sir, I hope the day was a good one for you all and this finds you well.

While I'm cognizant you've meant the thread in a lighthearted mode, I've got to be honest and say that it's going to be tough recovering from this year.

For instance, the last study of the economic impact of sport fishing in BC was from 2009, but then it was $500,000,000.00 annually brought into the province. If we factor in that the Canadian dollar was worth more then, it's an even more staggering number.

The best and most recent study I'm able to find for annual economic impact of tourism for BC was from 2018, and in all likelihood this number would include the sport fishing income Richard, but what it might mean to us is the loss of $20.5 Billion dollars......

Anyone in this province who has 3 functioning grey cells realizes what a financial quagmire we're in sir, so we'll take you folks under foot thanks as far more preferable to what's going on now.

Anyway sir, I apologize for making the mood more somber than you'd intended, but honestly there's not much on the plus side of the balance sheet for us when there's no tourism.

All the best to you all sir. Stay well.

Dwayne

Up here in the real North, it's going hurt all, ....... latest news was that Plumbers Lodge on Great Bear and Great Slave were not going to operate this year due to the quarantining! Nobody from outside the NWT can enter without 2 weeks quarantine before going elsewhere, so there'll be no tourists from the provinces or elsewhere! All parks are closed.

No issue with most Yanks. Grandma was one and some of my Great Uncles/Aunts settled in Washington State.

Let's face it, Canada cannot exist without America.

We are each other's biggest trading partners, we share the world's longest undefended border and Canada needs the help of the US to defend our huge country with less people than California.

This is just a general statement, not directed anywhere.


Everyone hates tourists, they are a general PIA.
Until their money doesn't show up!

"Two countries, separated by a common language". eh?

Hunted with Len and Nancy, three or four times. Nice people, and a beautiful place. I was hoping to go up this year, but that looks like a bust. Hope the new owners fare allright.

Last night I watched a Nick Zentner on YouTube, a geologist from central Washington state, on BC geology. He didn't know much about it. He was going to visit BC this summer to track down the water source for the Mousola floods of eastern Washington state. . It isn't just hunters and fishermen that are missing out.

No disrespect intended, but observing from afar, I think your leaders have you where they want you. Shuttered-in and dependent.

I daresay subjects, but not of the queen, rather to to alter of left wing politics and control.

Lenin (Communist), Hitler (National Socialist) and Mao (Communist) would all recognize and appreciate how you are being handled.

The biggest impact to me seems to be to the areas that have an outdoorsy (well, non-urban at least) way of life, like the Maritimes and the Western provinces and Northern territories.

In fact fresh air and open spaces are probably the perfect antidote to this COVID plague, but that would be an inconvenient fact.

What better way to minimize truculence in the non-urban outlands, than to remove one of the very pillars of existence there - with little more than grumbling as a result: its all in the name of the common good, right?

I wish you luck! I have some wonderful friends in Canada, of many persuasions and politics, but fear for what is next for all of them and you.

Richard, they just announced that the borders will be closed for another month - July 21st earliest now !

Thanks Paul, THAT SUCKS!!!

We have some rednecks in my region with crowbars. They can open the borders w/o too much trouble. It might not be cheap.

I'll have to be like old Napoleon in exile.

Too bad wabigoon, you seem like a good sort.
Our Guide/ outfitting businesses are going to take a hit, besides that I have no need to travel or see travellers.
I like the isolation, and by nature...where I live.

I fell in love with Canada in 1949 as a four year old. The people are worth more than all the fish, and game.

You can walk across the border pretty much wherever you want in Southern Alberta. No guarantee you escape detection. I'm not willing to risk it. I like my freedom too much.

We got that news yesterday as well. That will kill tourism for this summer.

I only live 1 hr from the NB border & Maine and am needing to cross and pick up some GunGack books from MD from my post box.

I am at my place outside Sandpoint and it is odd to not see the loads of Canadian license plates that are normally present. My early September northern BC hunt looks doubtful.

Of course you still see all the California, Washington, and other states plates. Just like here in southern BC we don't see Montana plates but we do see visitors from Canadian locations which have many more infections than does Montana. This is because political "leaders" actually think their political crap matters. Ultimately, we just play the hand we are dealt.
There is little doubt the border closures and covid in general, are likely to have a significant impact on outfitters. This, in turn may have a positive effect for resident hunters. Hard to say. GD

One person in Florida went to a bar and almost 30 people were infected. $hit, this stuff is contagious. I'm finding it awfully hard to wrap my head around the fact that we are only in month 4, and until the vaccine, it's likely another 20.

Not seeing much in the way of out of staters either. Pretty quiet so far.

Drove through Couer d'alene about four weeks back and it was just as busy as usual. A little quieter than usual in Bonners and from there to Sandpoint also. I was surprised to see a Washington plate on a back road near Cranbrook this week.
We enjoyed our first silhouette match last weekend which was great but we miss the visitors we usually host. GD

Update Richard - Border closed till August 21st now !

Sadly Paul, I've read that as well. I hope you good folks don't go hungry waiting for the "care package" in our freezer.

Thanks Richard, I'm sure we will survive !

I just talked to a friend in Wabigoon that mostly stays home all the time. We made a deal, I'll park my pickup in his drive, I'll borrow his. He'll quarantine for me.

I was up at Voyageurs national park a couple weeks ago. You can be in their waters but cant step foot on land.
I stopped and took a [bleep] on the ground and left.