CBSA to adjust service hours at 35 land border crossings in Canada

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announces that it intends to adjust hours of service at 35 land ports of entry across Canada as of 12:01 am (local time) on Jan. 6, 2025.

Today’s announcement, determined in collaboration with the United States, will enhance overall security for both countries. It will allow the CBSA to use its resources more efficiently by deploying officers at busier ports of entry.

This will support the CBSA’s ability to process travellers and goods as well as to manage enforcement activities.

The following land ports of entry across Canada will be making changes to their service hours: Alberta: Del Bonita; British Colombia: Cascade, Nelway; Manitoba: Cartwright, Coulter, Crystal City, Goodland, Gretna, Lena, Piney, Snowflake, South Junction, Tolstoi, Windygates, Winkler; Quebec: Chartierville, Clarenceville, Frelighsburg, Herdman, Hereford Road, Highwater, Lacolle Route 221, Lacolle Route 223, Noyan, Trout River; New Brunswick: Bloomsfield, Gillespie Portage, Fosterville, St. Croix; Saskatchewan: Carievale, Estevan Highway, Monchy, Northgate, Oungre, West Poplar River. 

U.S. adjusts border service hours

The U.S. is also adjusting service hours at many of its ports of entry. This alignment will also allow both countries to return inadmissible travellers and goods to the other country, which is more difficult when one side of the border is closed while the other remains open.

These adjustments are based on an analysis of operational pressures, peak periods, and services required at the ports of entry, to minimize the impacts on border communities. Almost all of these ports of entry are processing an average of two or less cars or commercial trucks per hour during the hours that will no longer be in operation, and travellers have an alternative border crossing option within a 100 km radius.

For more information, visit https://cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/gbi-rgf-eng.html.