Fifteen hundred American revelers accidentally invaded Canada over the weekend as a Michigan boating party ended up crashing into our neighbors to the north.
A legion of Michigan residents in inflatable rafts at the Port Huron Float Down on Sunday were blown across the border by strong winds before being greeted by police in Sarnia, Ontario.
Their adventure on the St. Clair River had shades of the 1995 movie “Canadian Bacon,” though the fact that the unlikely invaders landed in one of the nicest nations on Earth kept their geese from being cooked.
“Obviously no one has ID, but our only concern is that everybody is safe. We’re not concerned about citizenship at this point,” Sarnia police inspector Doug Warn told the Blackburn News.
The Canadian Coast Guard rescued some of the boaters stranded in deflated rafts, and a small fleet of city buses spent hours ferrying them back to the U.S.
Only minor injuries were reported.
Port Huron Float Down’s Facebook page thanked Canadian authorities for their help and praised them as “amazing neighbors.”
A Canadian lieutenant colonel concocted Defense Scheme No. 1 in 1921, when the U.S. was challenging Canada’s colonial master Britain as a world power, according to author Kevin Lippert.
The scheme would have seen troops from the Great White North destroy infrastructure in U.S. cities such as Albany, Seattle and Detroit while waiting for more forces from the U.K.
War Plan Red, devised by Americans in the 1930s and declassified in 1974, also saw the invasion of Canada as a first step in a possible war with Britain over trade.
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