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Post by brianbutler on Nov 28, 2021 22:57:42 GMT
Do you notice anything odd about this road along the Vermont/Quebec border? Sorry, you will have to cut and paste the link because the punctuation in the URL runs afoul of the "Create Link" feature.
Brian
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Nov 29, 2021 0:28:09 GMT
That is unusual. I suppose only Canadians are buried on the north side?
Cheers
Jim
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Post by brianbutler on Nov 29, 2021 0:51:32 GMT
That is unusual. I suppose only Canadians are buried on the north side? Cheers Jim The Vermont/Quebec boundary has many oddities. Thanks for noticing the cemetery, Jim. I was looking at the road, which meanders into Canada for a few hundred meters before returning to the US. There is no customs house on that road. It skirts a steep embankment (the East Richford Slide). The town of Derby Line (a bit east of the map I posted) is split between the countries, the boundary running through the public library and an auditorium.
Brian
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Post by wheelson on Nov 29, 2021 4:42:45 GMT
That is unusual. I suppose only Canadians are buried on the north side? Cheers Jim The Vermont/Quebec boundary has many oddities. Thanks for noticing the cemetery, Jim. I was looking at the road, which meanders into Canada for a few hundred meters before returning to the US. There is no customs house on that road. It skirts a steep embankment (the East Richford Slide). The town of Derby Line (a bit east of the map I posted) is split between the countries, the boundary running through the public library and an auditorium.
Brian
Good one, Brian. And I thought Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee was something, with the state’s dividing line one of the city(s) streets. Significant since during earlier covid, Virginia was in full lockdown, while across the street in Tennessee everything was pretty much open. Best, John “wheelson” |
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Nov 29, 2021 6:05:14 GMT
I can only wonder which police department patrols such a road. Another odd spot is Point Roberts Washington. Which is a little American peninsula jutting out of Canada.
All the Best Jim
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Post by brianbutler on Nov 29, 2021 11:25:39 GMT
I can only wonder which police department patrols such a road. Another odd spot is Point Roberts Washington. Which is a little American peninsula jutting out of Canada.
All the Best Jim
Yes, also Northwest Angle, Minnesota - not connected to the rest of the US by land. Brian
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Post by Jem on Nov 30, 2021 7:02:07 GMT
I guess the 'logic' of not having customs posts in those examples is that it isn't possible to get off that road or peninsula and into the 'other country'? Therefore you can't transport goods into the country?
I bet it gets very interesting if there are property tax, or building regs laws in the respective countries that the road crosses.
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Post by brianbutler on Nov 30, 2021 13:10:42 GMT
I guess the 'logic' of not having customs posts in those examples is that it isn't possible to get off that road or peninsula and into the 'other country'? Therefore you can't transport goods into the country? I bet it gets very interesting if there are property tax, or building regs laws in the respective countries that the road crosses. You're right. There is no way to get a motor vehicle off that road. In this particular example, there are no dwellings or other improvements on the Canadian part of the road. In fact the entire area on both sides is nearly devoid of humans. There are many examples along the Vermont/Quebec border where a farm road at one time crossed the border. Today these often have cul-de-sacs on both sides and a log laying along the boundary to keep cars out.
I have been to the northern tip of Maine where the only street in the small village of Estcourt runs at an angle to the boundary, which cuts through several houses and yards, ultimately crossing the street and leaving one building (a general store in 2000) on the US side and the rest of the neighborhood in Canada. I would really like to know how they handled that! But pre-9/11, the US Canada border was wide open (still is for the most part). I admit to walking, and even swimming, across it many times accidentally, and perhaps otherwise.
Here are some pictures of Estcourt and the boundary. I particularly like the boundary line painted on the road.
Here is to a map of the village.
Brian
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