Subject: more US-Canada odds and ends
Date: Jun 04, 2001 @ 17:52
Author: Dallen Timothy (Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@asu.edu>)
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more US-Canada odds and ends

Hi Again,

I found some more US-Canada pics that might be of interest, although as I said before, most of my collection is in slides.

1) This house lies on the border.  The small silver border marker is visible just in front of the porch, slightly to the right.  The border here is at an agle, so only a small corner of this house is in Quebec.  The rest is in Vermont.  The town is Beebe/Beebe Plain.  The garage is in Vermont so it has VT license plates, and the front door is in Vermont as well so the address is in the US.

2) picture two is the same as 1, so I didn't include it.

3) This is one of the cameras I mentioned previously that the US Immigration office has placed all throughout these towns that are bisected by the border.  Each road and pedestrian crossing has one.

4) Here's a survey marker in the sidewalk directly in front of the old white apartment building that I send a photo of last week.

5) This cement arrow lies directly on the border.  Its purpose is to assist people who fly across the border with private airplanes to know where to land and walk down to the customs office.  Pilots land the planes on a small grassy strip a bit further west from this point.  The second shot shows how west of the Great Lakes, no structures are allowed to be built on the border.  The town of Coutts, Alberta (right) and Sweetgrass, Montana (left) are well beyond the required 20 feet apart.  The dirt road is the US border patrol road and the border is about a meter or so to the right.

Dallen

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