{"id":260,"title":"The US-Canada border splits this road down the middle","description":"Tom Scott visits Rue Canusa, a street where the center line is the international border between Stanstead, Canada, and Derby Line, USA. He explains the practical and legal oddities of this arrangement, noting that while the houses are clearly in one country or the other, the road itself is ambiguously mapped by both nations. The Mayor of Stanstead, Philippe Dutil, discusses how border enforcement has become much stricter over the years, changing what was once a casual crossing to visit neighbors into a formal process requiring customs checks, even though some minor leniency for drivers exists.","slug":"the-us-canada-border-splits-this-road-down-the-middle","creator":"TomScottGo","duration":174.892698,"tags":["Tom Scott","international border","USA","Canada","geography","Stanstead","Derby Line","Rue Canusa","geopolitics","border crossing","cartography"],"transcription":"I'm not allowed to cross this road, because this is the town of Stanstead, Canada. On the other side of the street is Derby Line, USA, and the border between the two countries runs right down this, Rue Canusa. For the local residents, that can be inconvenient. I lived here all my life for 63 years. Today, you cannot cross over the line and visit your neighbors like years ago. If you want to cross, you have to report at customs. You know, I used to cross every day. Now I probably cross once every, probably once a week because I come down to the post office over here. To go through the border, basically, they ask you your passport. They go inside, I guess they look at if you have a record or not. They look at your registration of your car, but a couple of minutes and you're gone through. I'm a dual citizen, so I'm American and Canadian, so it's easier. This is a place where the idea of a border as a solid, easy to understand line gets a little bit fuzzy. The road doesn't run at exactly the same angle as the border, not precisely. The official line is that this is Canada and that's the USA, but both country's maps show the road as being entirely in the US just here, and entirely in Canada up there. The houses are definitely in separate countries, but the road, it's not quite as clear. And in practice, if I was driving, I'd be okay even on that side of the road. I am considered to be still in Canada, as long as I don't stop and walk up to an American house. It's fair to say that there's a little bit of leniency here if you're just nudging the border by a few centimeters, or if you're on that side, a couple of inches. But while I was setting up my camera here, the police turned up, lights flashing, to move along those bikers you saw earlier who were admiring the view from the other side of the road. It all seemed in good spirits, but they had crossed the border. Well, the library is part on the Canadian side, part on the American side. But you stay on the Canadian side, you stay on the sidewalk and you go through the front door and it's permitted. On Canusa Street, there's a sidewalk on the Canadian side. So back years ago, it was tolerated that people on the American side could cross over and walk on the sidewalk. So, you know, basically it's a little dangerous to walk on the side of the road. And now today, well, it's not tolerated no more. I think the rules hasn't changed much, but they're more enforced. When you cross, they ask you more questions than they used to, you know, years ago. Before, you went through the border and you knew most of the customs officers and it was they used to wave to you, you know. In 1783, this section of the Canada-US border was set at the 45th parallel, a line of latitude. Slightly inaccurate measurements were accepted by both countries, so it was locked in. But as for this specific road, there are local stories about drunk surveyors and pranks, but no one really knows.","timeline":[{"t":0,"speech":"I'm not allowed to cross this road, because this is the town of Stanstead, Canada. On the other side of the street is Derby Line, USA,","visual":{"action":"A man in a red shirt stands on a sidewalk next to a road and speaks to the camera, gesturing with his hands. 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