[6] In 2004, the US and Canada completed a CA$43 million joint border inspection station which houses the agencies of both countries.

[9] In the fall of 2020, after several months of cross border travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the governments of Alberta and Canada announced a pilot program.

Essential workers and Canadian citizens entering Canada through this and one other crossing needed to quarantine for only 48 hours instead of the usual 14 days if a COVID test was negative.

[10] In January 2022, protesting truck drivers "demanding an end to pandemic restrictions" created a blockade on the Canadian side of the crossing.

On February 1, after the RCMP created a roadblock on Highway 4, a protester driving at high speed hit a passenger vehicle and assaulted a resident.

[12] That day, protesters held a meeting in the Smugglers Saloon with their lawyer Chad Williamson and rural United Conservative Party MLAs.