Besides, if the major towns of Canada weren't clustered close to the border, USers (pun intended) wouldn't be able to slip across for their own shopping. Here in Juneau many Alaskans regularly head for Whitehorse and Atlin for our own nefarious purposes- music, cabins, X-country skiing...

Mollywoggie, mollificent harks of munificent, magnificent, beneficent and all that good stuff. Can't hurt.

Ebbie