The library split between the towns of Stanstead, Québec, and Derby Line, Vermont, ... official border check point down the road between Stanstead and Derby Line to use the main U.S. entrance ...

The Vermont-Quebec border runs right through this library. Trump officials used it to stoke tensions. Jody Stone, mayor of the village of Stanstead, Quebec, stood inside the Haskell Free ...

Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec, are basically one town. — -- For centuries, locals are said to have largely ignored the line that marks the border between Canada and the U.S.A. It ...

DERBY LINE, Vt. — For decades, the towns of Derby Line, Vt., and Stanstead, Quebec, have functioned as one community. Located on either side of the border, they share a sewer system, emergency ...

For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec, have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont, to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required.

President Trump’s border crackdown and bid for Canada to become the “51st state” have threatened the relationship between Derby, Vt., and Stanstead, Quebec.

Black tape marks the US/Canada border inside the Haskell Free Library and Opera House Feb. 28, 2017, in Stanstead, Quebec, left, and Derby Line, Vt., right. DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images.

A sign that says "Canada is not for sale" is nailed to a pole in Stanstead, Quebec, a block from the U.S.-Canada border crossing, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (Zoe McDonald/Vermont Public) In mid ...

For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec, have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont, to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required.

For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec, have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont, to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required.