The United States as a country is relatively young and the West Coast is even younger. Still, there’s a lot of history in this area that most people don’t know about. For example, did you know that there used to be skirmishes on what is now the US Canadian border between the Russian and the British? Or did you know that there was a gold rush in Canada just north of here? On this episode of Neighbor to Neighbor we sit down with Wes Gannaway, the President of the Whatcom Historical Society.
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