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Northgate Border Crossing

{{Short description|Border crossing between Canada and the United States}}

{{Infobox port-of-entry

|name=Northgate Border Crossing

|image=Northgate ND new border station.jpg

|image_size=300px

|image_caption=US Border Inspection Station at Northgate, North Dakota

|country=United States; Canada

|location={{plainlist|

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|coordinates={{coord|display=inline,title|49.0|-102.275164|region:US_type:landmark|format=dms}}

|opened=1907

| blankdetailstitle1 = US Phone

| blankdetails1 = (701) 596-3805

| blankdetailstitle2 = Can Phone

| blankdetails2 = (306) 483-5111

| blankdetailstitle3 = US Hours

| blankdetails3 = 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (North Dakota Time zone, year round)

| blankdetailstitle4 = Canadian Hours

| blankdetails4 = 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Summer) 9:00 AM – 5:00 pm (Winter) Sask Time

| website= [https://www.cbp.gov/contact/ports/northgate-north-dakota-3406 US] [https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/do-rb/offices-bureaux/620-eng.html Canadian]

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The Northgate Border Crossing connects the cities of Bowbells, North Dakota and Alameda, Saskatchewan on the Canada–US border. North Dakota Highway 8 on the American side joins Saskatchewan Highway 9 on the Canadian side.

Canadian side

The customs office opened in 1907 at Boscurvis about {{convert|25|km|0}} 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, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway had built southward to connect with the Great Northern Railway building northward. In 1916–17, the office name changed to Northgate.{{cite book|last=Legg |first=Herbert |page=190 |title=Customs Services in Western Canada, 1867–1925 |publisher=The Creston Review Ltd |year=1962}} During Prohibition in Saskatchewan, the smuggling of liquor northward through Northgate could turn violent.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/nelsondaily/1.0396623#p3z-2r0f:%22Northgate%22 |page=4 |title=Daily News |date=15 Mar 1921 |website=www.library.ubc.ca}}

The customs building was replaced in 1964.{{Cite web | url=https://buyandsell.gc.ca/cds/public/2017/09/15/7ac329f904d13c59a0b61af6ae10f0d0/20170915_-_cbsa_lbcp_rfq_-_track_changes_-_final.pdf#page=76 |page=76 (74) |title=Land Border Crossing Project: 47419-187064/A | website=buyandsell.gc.ca}} The former building{{cite web |url=http://www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com/category/northgate-nd |title=Northgate, ND |website=www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com}} was razed in 2014/15.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In 2020, the hours changed from being 8 am to 9 pm (summer) and 9 am to 10 pm (winter) to 8 am to 4 pm (summer){{Cite web | url=https://www.sasktoday.ca/south/local-news/port-of-estevan-among-border-crossings-with-temporary-reduced-hours-4147615 |title=SaskToday |date=15 Apr 2020 |website=www.sasktoday.ca}} and mirroring the US winter hours. The port changed back to its regular hours late in 2021.

In January 2025, following an announcement by CBSA regarding hour changes at ports of entry across Canada, Northgate changed its hours of operation to 9 am to 5 pm (winter) and 8 am to 4 pm (summer) to mirror the hours of operation on the US side.{{Cite web | url=https://regina.ctvnews.ca/these-saskatchewan-border-crossings-are-changing-their-hours-of-operation-1.7114239 |title=CTVNewsRegina |date=18 Nov 2024 |website=www.ctvnews.ca}}

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.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

Highway realignment and rail upgrade

File:Northgate ND old border station.jpg

In 1962, the building of Highway 8 realigned the road to {{convert|0.5|mi|1}} west of the previous crossing. After being idle for years, the Canadian National Railway upgraded its tracks at this crossing to support rail traffic from the Bakken oil field.{{cite web|last1=North Dakota Department of Transportation|last2=Government of Saskatchewan|title=Northgate Railroad Crossing|url=http://www.thetbwg.org/meetings-archive-201404_e.html|website=Meeting Archives|publisher=US - Canada Transportation Border Working Group|access-date=11 December 2015}}

See also

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Category:Canada–United States border crossings

Category:Geography of Saskatchewan

Category:Transportation in Burke County, North Dakota

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