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Conference kaosws::canada

Title:	True North Strong & Free
Notice:	Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:	POLAR::RICHARDSON

Created:	Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1040
Total number of notes:	13668

70.0. "International villages" by POTARU::COUPAL (Oh no! The aliens ate my Buick!) Mon May 16 1988 05:52

        What are the places in Canada that have half of the village
        in the US and half in Canada ?  The village of Stanstead is
        one, in Quebec, I believe.  Don't they have there houses split
        on both sides, lines in the living room for the border, and
        so on ?
        
        Any other ?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
70.1		COVERT::COVERT	John R. Covert	`Sat Dec 24 1988 22:47`	19
	Derby Line, Vermont & Rock Island, Quebec, as well as Beebe and Beebe Plain are split across the border. A couple of years ago I was stopped and lectured to by the U.S. border patrol after I "accidentally" entered Canada without first stopping at immigration when I parked across the street from U.S. Immigration upon coming back in. The border patrol insisted I had to drive into the station in the car. Immi- gration wasn't overly upset when we finally did this; asked us how long we'd been in Canada (5 minutes) and then waved us on. We went back to the same parking spot and walked (this time legally) back into Canada via Immigration. We came back through the Library, which is half in each town, and now cognizant of the rules, walked the two blocks back to U.S. immigration, non-stop. There are no longer any private residences which span the border. Too much confusion for the governments. There is a gun factory with a line through the middle of the plant. /john
70.2	DUNDEE - ONT-QUE-NY,USA	BEST1::ATKINSON	Alan Atkinson - Geneva	`Tue Jan 03 1989 07:48`	8
	Dundee (either Ontario or Quebec not sure) has a bar that has lines painted on the floor to mark the borders between the US and Ont/Que and Que/Ont. I think it has the three borders painted on the floor, (two for sure). Dundee is across the St.Lawrence River from Cornwall,Ont near Salmon River,NY. It's a great place. In the summer you go by boat usually and you can even get there by car across the ice in the winter (when the ice freezes thick enough).
70.3		COVERT::COVERT	John R. Covert	`Fri Jan 06 1989 00:49`	6
	Dundee is in Quebec, right across the border from Fort Covington, NY. There is only one border on the floor of the bar; the Quebec/Ontario border is the St. Lawrence river. /john