If she bought Canadian Motown records new in Detroit or Toledo record shops, then it HAD to be that those US shops ran out of copies hot selling records, while the local, Detroit US distributors were also out of it. So those shops bought copies directly from Windsor distributors. They probably sent one of their employees over to Windsor, to buy them. Motown used to use Canadian record pressing plants to make emergency press runs, when they would have had to wait in line [[several more days or a few weeks) when all the Michigan/Northwest Ohio and Northern Indiana plants were booked up. Nothing wrong with international commerce.
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