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The Northgate Border Crossing connects the cities of
In 1962, the building of Highway 8 realigned the road to west of the previous crossing. After being idle for years, the
Bowbells, North Dakota
Bowbells is a city in and the county seat of Burke County, North Dakota, Burke County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 301 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
The city of Bowbells was founded in 1898 along the ...
and Alameda, Saskatchewan
Alameda is a town in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately 50 km east of Estevan. A translation of Alameda from Spanish is "Poplar Grove" or "Tree Lined Avenue". One popular story is that the town was named for Alameda, Calif ...
on the Canada–US border. North Dakota Highway 8
North Dakota Highway 8 (ND 8) is a north–south state highway in North Dakota, United States. The highway is split into two segments. The southern segment is long and travels from Lake Sakakawea near Twin Buttes to South Dakota Hig ...
on the American side joins Saskatchewan Highway 9
Highway 9 is a paved, undivided provincial highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It runs from North Dakota Highway 8 at the US border near Port of Northgate until it transitions into Provincial Road 283 at the Manitoba provinc ...
on the Canadian side.
Canadian side
The customs office opened in 1907 at Boscurvis about north of the border. The office operated under the administrative oversight of the Port of North Portal. A replacement facility, called Boundary Line, was constructed at the border in 1913. That year, theGrand Trunk Pacific Railway
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port. East of Winnipeg the line continued as the National Tra ...
had built southward to connect with the Great Northern Railway building northward. In 1916/17, the office name changed to Northgate. During Prohibition in Saskatchewan, the smuggling of liquor northward through Northgate could turn violent.
The customs building was replaced in 1964. The former building was razed in 2014/15.
In 2020, the hours changed from being 8am to 9pm (summer) and 9am to 10pm (winter) to 8am to 4pm (summer) and mirroring the US winter hours.
US side
The early border patrol history is unclear, but assumedly the US mirrored the establishment of a permanent post at least by the 1910s. The US upgraded its border station on Highway 8 in 2004.Highway realignment and rail upgrade
In 1962, the building of Highway 8 realigned the road to west of the previous crossing. After being idle for years, the Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN i ...
upgraded its tracks at this crossing to support rail traffic from the Bakken oil field.
See also
*List of Canada–United States border crossings
This article includes lists of border crossings, ordered from west to east (north to south for Alaska crossings), along the Canada–United States border, International Boundary between Canada and the United States. Each port of entry (POE) in the ...
References
Canada–United States border crossings Geography of Saskatchewan Transportation in Burke County, North Dakota {{Saskatchewan-geo-stub