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==Description== [[File:Peace Arch.JPG|thumb|upright|left|The arch at night]] The Peace Arch has the [[Flag of the United States|flags of United States]] and [[Flag of Canada|Canada]] mounted on its crown, and two [[inscription]]s on both sides of its [[frieze]]. The inscription on the U.S. side of the Peace Arch reads "Children of a common mother" (referring to the two nations' common origin from the [[British Empire]]), and the words on the Canadian side read "Brethren dwelling together in unity" ({{Bibleverse|Psalm|133:1|KJV}}). Within the arch, each side has an iron [[gate]] mounted on either side of the border with an inscription above each gate: the one on the east side read "May these gates never be closed", while on the west side read "1814 Open One Hundred Years 1914". The surrounding park, [[Peace Arch Park]], consists of [[Peace Arch Provincial Park]] on the Canadian side and [[Peace Arch State Park]] on the American side of the border. About 500,000 people visit the Peace Arch each year.<ref name="surreyheritage" /> The monument and surrounding park is considered an international park. As such, visitors do not require either a passport or visa to pass through their applicable border crossing so long as they stay within the boundaries of the park and leave the park into the country from which they entered.<ref>[http://www.peacearchpark.org/peacearch.htm About Peace Arch Park] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904112343/http://www.peacearchpark.org/peacearch.htm |date=September 4, 2012 }}</ref> Because of the Peace Arch monument, the border crossing between Surrey and Blaine is popularly known as the "[[Peace Arch Border Crossing]]". In Canada, the crossing is officially named [[Douglas, British Columbia|Douglas]] after [[James Douglas (governor)|Sir James Douglas]], the first governor of the [[Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866)|Colony of British Columbia]]. It is one of the busiest border crossings between Canada and the United States, and the busiest such crossing west of [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]].
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