Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Law and Order on the border (TV show)
Date: Jun 02, 2001 @ 21:14
Author: Dallen Timothy (Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@...>)
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RE: [BoundaryPoint] Law and Order on the border (TV show)

There are several (at least 15) buildings directly on the US-Canada border, but they are all east of the Great Lakes, with the exception of the Peace Chapel at the International Peace Garden in Manitoba and North Dakota.  I am unaware that any of these has an official designation as being a trading or meeting point, as the small building in Panmunjam is on the N-S Korea border.  Most of the borderline buildings are private homes, the Haskell Library and Opera house, a couple of grocery stores, a bar (which was abandoned in the early 1990s, although someone lives in the apartment above it), and a few barns in Vermont/Quebec and Maine/Qeubec.  Unless one of these has some official designation, I'm unaware of such a place.  Actually, now that I think of it, I heard about four years ago that both governments were going to try to make border crossings more efficient, and as part of this plan, they were going to work together to build a couple of joint customs/immigration buildings somewhere in the prairies.  I'm not sure if this ever came to fruition or not.  In this case, they might have a line across the floor and the building could be used for such purposes.  Does anybody know about this new style of US-Canada border crossing facility?  I believe I have some old IBC reports that mention it as a prototype.

Dallen





 

-----Original Message-----
From: Arif Samad [mailto:fHoiberg@...]
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 2:05 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Law and Order on the border (TV show)


This reminds me of the story I heard about individual
Beatles being unwanted in either Canada or US and
consequently they had to meet in a building on the
border.  Does anybody know the whole story and
veracity of it?

--- Bill Hanrahan <hanrahan@...> wrote:
> Dallen's recent great photos of the Derby Line/Rock
> Island area got me
> thinking about a recent episode of the TV program
> Law and Order which was
> broadcast here in the US a few weeks ago.  In that
> episode, the bad guy
> crossed over the caus line and had to be extradited
> back to the U.S. after
> a hearing by a Canadian court.  The end of the
> episode showed the RCMP
> transferring custody of the bad guy to U.S.
> authorities while inside a
> building plainly showing separate Canadian and
> American sections through
> which the criminal was transferred through a locked
> door into the
> U.S.  There was even the requisite sign on the wall
> which stated something
> to the effect that "You are now entering the United
> States of
> America".  Obviously,this was a TV show, but does
> anyone know of any such
> "custodial transfer" facilities on the border?  I'm
> sure in real life it's
> more of a case where the U.S. authorities seeking
> the criminal would
> actually travel to Canada to obtain physical custody
> after approval was
> issued by the Crown.  In any event, this was a rare
> TV treat for a border
> freak!
>
> Bill
>
>


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