Canada-US tension lasts a long time in a small Alaska city

Chelsey and Dustin Stone was preparing for another busy tourist season when the first call.

“He was very sad, he was right,” said Dustin.

The couple calls a White, Alaska, Alaska works in a small, nine-room room in Skagway. In winter, they must close part of the grass because the wind is very heavy shocks.

The man on the phone was a guest from the Whitehorse – From Skagway to 140 km, and he has canceled his visit to the city President Donald Trump to the city and his visit to the city.

“He does not want to be here and I am very reliable, and I am very good. I am very sorry. I do not feel that I feel like I’m not feeling back to Shagway.”

Some people in Whitehore have shown that they have already not traveled to Skugay or other Alaskan cities.

March Askagway Mayor Sam Bass, Yukon resident Karen McColl, “Alaska and Skagway together with America, wrote” Alaska and Skagway. “

“I can’t vote in America, but I can vote in my dollar,” he reads a letter.

Chelsey said that the Canadians have been abolished between 10 and 15 in the case because of Canadians To boycott travel to the United States.

Difficult, he says because they are barely survived by their work and return to normal. Now businesses such as themselves are especially sensitive to fall on the journey.

“Finance is asking, but it really hurts, only our relations with Yukon are following our relationships in real time,” Dustin said.

This is the attitude that some Alaskan politicians want to apply by resolution.

The house resolution, which recognizes and responding to the relationship between Canada and Alaska, aims to disclose the sacred between the southern rhetoric, Alaska and Canada.

Attitude with ancient roots

Skagway sits along the other part of the state along the Alaska Panhandle. According to Alaska Travel Industry Association, 1.2 million cruise ships are coming from the passenger, travel to the city in about 1,100 villages.

However, people from the Yukon often carry a two-hour drive to the sidewalk. They come to a change in the landscape or for annual events such as Santa train or spring in the spring.

People in Skagway regularly buy whitehorse, gorgels in larger box shops, as well as for dental and vet.

This journey has an ancient roots.

“Skagway is a really important access point for coastal tlingits to access built-in tlingits and the Chilkoot trail was a trade way between these groups,” said Jaime Bricker, the region’s tourist director and Tribal President for the Traditional Council.

During Goldrush, Skagway continued this connecting tradition. The Chilkoot pass between thousands and Yukon was to search for millions.

Bricker said the closeness between the two areas could feel like the Yukon, “an extension of the family, in shape and shape of the family.”

The government reaches

The Skagway Assembly was also supported in a letter sent to Yukana Prime Minister Ran Pillai, local government, Canada. He explained how much they appreciated the relationship between the two areas. The letter is not signed by Bass, a movement says the Dust, sends a wrong message to the northern neighbors.

After a while sent to this letter, Republic State Rep. Chuck Copp Office, 11th recipe, not only positive economic ties, but also justified the importance of protection of goodwill between the two region.

According to the resolution, Alaska exported $ 600 million to Canada and Canada for about $ 600 million and imported about $ 750 million per year. In addition, more than 47 Canadian companies operate in Alaska and work in the state of 4,350 residents.

“The House of Joint Resolution is an alcoholic approval of the support of friendship, shared history, mutual defense and our state for centuries … We are talking about this attitude,” he said in March before the Alyaska State Job Committee.

The resolution does not apply any law – a symbolic gesture

On Wednesday, the resolution was transferred to the third reading 4 More votes from 40 delegates. The State Senate is planned to be placed on May 5.

Both Bass and Kopp rejected interviews on letter and resolution.

Residents speak

Losing the connection between Alaska and Yukon is both brick and dust and the owner of the dust.

“Sad that our government has managed this phase between our communities, our communities,” Dustin said.

However, some Shagway residents do not have the same level of Canadians who decide not to come to visit.

Trish McGee is now worried about a long-term quilt shop owner who retired and living outside the Skagway.

“Nice, don’t come,” he said. One Republican McGee says people need to give a chance. He says the Canadians do not like, but they do not make the top of the tourism.

“Everyone (around the city) just needs a tourist season to start … and go to work.”

Support magnets, labels

Again, many inhabitants want to show the Canadians they missed.

“We love our Canadian friends,” Scott Logan, SCOUN LOGAN living in Skugay for 54 years. He has magnets – small Canadian flags – to prove it.

He drove around the city that patched the magnets who told their magnets the magnets of friends.

“For your Canadian Friends, your Canadian friends’ flags, the flags of your Canadian,” said Logan.

Tourism Administration made stickers – both Alaskan and Yukon flags and “Friendship in Borders” and “Friendship in Borders” and “Friendship in Borders” to show their love.

Bricker says some enterprises in the city offer solidarity to the Canadians this summer.

Anxious but hopeful for resolution

Dustin and Chelsey understand that the Canadians could not cause the visit to do the visit now.

“Now this is a kind of strange to suck in this bigger conversation in this bigger conflict,” Dustin said.

“I feel like we normally be superior to everything because we are strangers who live in the middle of anywhere.”

The Canadians traveling to Bricker highly appreciate the Canadians, and at the same time do not visit some Canadians.

“This is my stomach that our friends and family and neighbors feel Angst about what is happening in our countries,” he said.

“But I feel hopeful and (I see) a really powerful connection with the people in our region.”