Canada welcomes fully vaccinated Americans across reopened border

Ottawa and Washington had faced increasing pressure from travel and tourism groups to ease travel and border restrictions.

American visitors trickled across the Canada-US border on Monday, cheering the reopening of the world's longest land boundary 17 months after all non-essential travel was halted to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Ottawa lifted quarantine requirements for US citizens and permanent residents arriving with proof of vaccination.  "It's absolutely wonderful," Vicki Poulin said of the border reopening. "We're just so happy to be here." The Canadian-born resident of Queensbury, New York, her American husband and their dog Sully used to make the trip to see her extended family in Montreal every month, but have not visited since the border was shuttered in March 2020.