Thanks! You are a good guy and I love your videos. I also appreciate the change of inflection at the end of your sentences; although I wouldn’t have said anything, I am happy for the change. Keep up the good work. Now if I could only get my grandkids to watch your videos. . . . They live in Israel, which is where I am right now. Talk about weird geography. You could make a movie about it, although it might not be safe and you would have to do an update every other day. (Perhaps I exaggerate, but not by much.)
Thanks for the kind words John! I appreciate the support and your attempts to get your grandkids interested in geography! Just keep working on em. It'll eventually hit. That's how I caught the bug 🤠
I’ve been to Hyder while road tripping to AK. Drove around a bit and stopped for a bite to eat before going back into Canada. The border guard chatted with us about the bear we saw walking down Main Street and how our trip was going and let us go without even looking at our IDs
I'm so glad you changed your inflection and no longer make your voice go higher at the end of every sentence. Always loved the content, now I get to enjoy it with good narration!
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Definitely. The people of Point Roberts were literally stranded during the lockdown. They have to cross into Tsawwassen, BC, just to travel East to the Peace Arch border, in order to cross back into Blaine, in Washington State.
@@Deranged316 Because they're American, and the border was closed down except for trade. Why they weren't just a part of Canada to begin with is insane. It's the southern-most tip of a Canadian peninsula, but because it dips beneath the 49th Parallel, it's considered American. It's only 4,884 square miles. Couldn't they have made an exception? 😋
Having your country just magically swapped overnight, isn’t exactly all that simple especially when you’re guaranteed certain rights in one country and not others. Ever watch a documentary on the northwest angle.
If you took the 20 foot clearing of forest that makes up the US-Canada border and added the entire portion together it would be roughly the size of Key West, FL.
The reason for the Northwest Angle is that the treaty defined the border as running from the northwesternmost point of the Lake of the Woods WEST to the Mississippi River. No one knew it at the time, but the source of the Mississippi River is to the SOUTH of the Lake of the Woods. So in the treaty revision, they just amended that from the northwesternmost point of the Lake of the Woods to the 49th parallel, although at the time, they didn't know if that was to the north or to the south, just that it was nearby. Also, another place you can drive between Canada and the US is in the International Peace Garden in North Dakota and Manitoba. You do need to check in as you come in, and you have to check in at Customs on the way out (whichever way you go), but while in the park, you can drive/walk back and forth across the border as much as you want. It's very pretty on a nice summer day, if a bit out of the way to get to.
There's also the giant Peace Arch on the Washington-British Columbia border, with surrounding parks maintained by both the state and the province. There are parking lots on both sides of the border, and it looks like you don't have to go through customs to come or go. Though you _do_ have to dodge traffic on crosswalks to get to the arch itself, since it's in the median of I-5/BC 99 (between the US and Canadian customs stations). And I wouldn't be surprised if the border patrol make sure people leave through the same side they came in from.
@@thomasrinschler6783 i live in St Pierre Jolys MB a short half hr ish drive down hwy 59 south to the tiny country border crossing to USA in the sticks to Lancaster Minnesota Its def a tiny crossing no signage on Canadian side that its coming up or any warnings USA border ahead etc! I was new here few yrs ago and literally driving in the boonies country fields forrest lil farms down this hwy 59 south and had driven right into the small area of border crossing on the road ahead of me and had no idea how soon or that the hwy 59 south youll just drive right into a Canada USA border crossing! I turned around on a wide parking lot ish area of the hwy and then drove back
6:52 Mainer here…the reason that the 45th parallel wasn’t extended was because of the vast logging operations in the northern part of Maine, known as the Allagash Wilderness. During the early 1800s, the Americans dammed lakes to alter the watersheds, diverting the flow from the Saint John river to the Penobscot to ship logs down to Bangor. To this day it is a huge logging operation though ironically and through a twist of fate…a large family owned company based in New Brunswick, Irving, owns most of the operations now 😂. The dams built to this day still have those lakes flowing south instead of north, but obviously they’re not sending logs down them anymore.
'notha Mainah here :) [although now in exile...] ... just barely old enough to remember the sight of a log-run-clogged Kennebec, and the foam-choked stench of same river in the summertime [ditto: Androscoggin, Penobscot, Saco ...]
@@joebaillar Parts of the border between Maine and Canada are just insane, as if someone put down border markers nearly randomly and then played connect the dots with them. What happened there?
Geoff, another great video. Thanks for your work. Since you brought up the Glacier/Waterton Lakes N.Ps, may I point out that there's also the Int'l. Peace Park on the ND/MB border. You gave me some Hyder, AK, info which I didn't have. To return the favor, here's some info for you: Hyder is in the Panhandle, or Southeast, which is otherwise served by the State Ferry System/Marine Hwy., but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or a 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road; US mail is flown from Ketchikan; located 111 miles farther east than Ketchikan, it’s the easternmost city or town in Alaska. The southernmost point (South Point of Middle Is., Ontario, in Lake Erie, and part of Pt. Pele [PEA-lee] N.P.) is farther south than all or part of 27 US states: MI, OH, PA, NY, CT, MA, RI, NH, VT, ME, IL, IN, WI, IA, MN, NE, SD, ND, WY, MT, ID, OR, WA, CA, NV, UT, AK.
I live on Whidbey Island and would see Pt. Roberts listings in the local phone book. I had no idea where point Roberts was and never thought about it. It was when Covid was a problem that I read an article about the people being stuck there.
I spent a couple days and a night in Hyder. It's a rad lil town. The post office is the only place with clocks set to AK time, and it only accepts US dollars. There's a viewing platform above the creek there too. You can watch grizzlies, black bears, and bald eagles all feeding from it. There's also an old mining road that takes you up the mountain along a receding glacier. The road is beyond narrow with a sheer rock wall on one side and a terrifying drop on the other for most if it. There's a parking area to view the glacier. When I got to it the only thing I could see due to the dense fog was a lone Australian woman playing a didgeridoo. There was no car so she either hiked up there or was dropped off..... very surreal 😅 apparently some scenes from the movie The Thing were filmed up that old mining road. Wish I knew that when I was there
Great job! I already was familiar with the oddities of Pt Roberts, Lake of the Woods, and Derby Line -- but loved hearing about the lesser-known spots you presented. It's very interesting how (and why) national borders often ignore natural borders... It's always seemed that the St Lawrence River would create the US/Canada border -- which would mean you'd be looking at the US across the river from Quebec City. Of course that would mean that the Maritime Provinces would be part of the US... which probably wouldn't go over too well. Quick correction: the road in VT that briefly crosses into Quebec is called "East Richford Slide Road". There are several YT videos specifically about it.
I used to live near that weird little bump in the border everybody things is so strange. But it's not that weird. The border in Northwest Ontario follows the Pidgeon river, the border in Western Canada is a strict straight 49th parallel border. These two meet at lake of the Woods, where this bump is. But lots of maps don't make it clear there's a lake there, so people get confused. That said, there is a decent sized peninsula that got cut off by the strait border, heading south, over there.
I lived in Derby Line for a few years and my parents still live there. I always found it interesting that the library has the line right on the floor. Good and interesting video you shared
Funny, we visited a friend in Chester, and I lamented the fact that I'd never been to Wales, and she informed us that her house was actually in Wales, and so were we at that moment, so I finally visited Wales without even knowing it. (Thankfully, this was just before we drove to Snowdonia, and other areas of NW Wales, correcting that error of the past.)
I live in Crystal Lake, IL (a Chicago suburb), at a north latitude of 42.22335). I am further north than the southernmost point in Canada, which is in Point Pelee National Park on Middle Island in Lake Erie; Middle Island's south point has a north latitude of 41.68143
Well done, Geoff! 👏 This must have taken a lot of work. As a Canadian living in Spain, for the fun of it, I checked the length of the border and superimposed it on Europe - it is essentially from Dublin, Ireland to Ankara, Turkey! One has to wonder, though, with the talk of heavy tariffs by the new U.S. government impacting the Canadian economy if there will be stricter measures in some of these buildings and areas coming up soon. Time will tell... Cheers!
Excellent video! Maybe you want to do a follow up on how these oddities made life difficult for the residents during the COVID travel restrictions. I remember hearing about some of these communities at the time... ❤❤❤
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Hi Geoff, I loved your video because of the fascinating historical stories you highlighted and the wonderful job you do of delivering those stories in a highly engaging way! You make awesome map graphics and animation as well. Thank you!
Some other fun Vermont border facts. Vermont has two proper exclaves and a kind of exclave. Alburgh Vermont doesn't have a land border with the US but is accessible by bridge so doesn't really count. Just about 1500 feet east of it is an exclave called Province Point, a couple of acres of land that sticks out of Canada. There is nothing there but there is a border marker. Further East on Lake Memphremagog there is an island called Province Island, once again a few acres of the Southern tip of the island are in the US.
Estcourt Station, ME has houses that straddle the border, but I don't think anyone lives there anymore. There is a golf course on the border where the clubhouse is in the USA but most or all of the holes are in Canada. I think that's also in Maine.
Probably get the explanation looking into the history between Russia and Canada. Since the US bought Alaska from Russia. I think Florida border is the same since it was also bought. Actually I think it was given away to the US to get them out of the Mexican-American war because Spain was also having issues holding onto Mexico. Didn't do much good since I think they ended up losing the war shortly after.
@@kosmosXcannon Spain was broke from all the fighting with everybody. They had land they couldn't hold on to anyway, so the U.S. got it all for a steal. Remember, a the time, Florida was a swamp. Well, the southern half of it, anyway.
There is a very interesting history that led to it. That border dispute led to Canada no longer automatically deferring to the British in their external affairs. A joint American-British-Canadian committee drew that line. The Canadians expected the British would of course side with them and thought they were putting one over on the Americans. But the British representative stabbed the Canadians in the back to curry favor with the Americans… as had been pre-arranged between them. Although, the Americans did not get everything they hoped for. They had wanted even more than they ended up getting.
I’m from BC , near ish coast and immediately wondered if the proper way to pronounce it crossed his mind at all or if he didn’t even think there could be a different way.
So Geoff! Liked the review! But was waiting to hear about the busiest border between Windsor and/Detroit ( where I live in Canada) it is amazing to live in this area-we are a very American based city-mostly surrounded by water -we share so much between our 2 countries-there are always great stories from both sides that everyone would love to hear!
fun stuff! *very* well done. i was *so* hoping you'd have gone on to include Estcourt Station, Maine among your bordertown oddities, although it's a bit of an obscurity :)
You should do a piece on the Republic of Indian Stream. This was a short-lived independent state that was the result of an ambiguity. The 1783 Treaty of Paris defined the border between the United States and Canada as starting at the Northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River. But no one could agree which of the three tributaries was the northwesternmost head. Both Canada and New Hampshire claimed the same territory, and in the 1830s, that territory declared itself independent of both, and formed the Republic of Indian Stream.
Way back in the dark ages of the 80's, my friends and I used to drive from Vancouver to Point Roberts just across the US border to buy cheap American beer sometimes. It didn't hold a candle to Canadian beer but, a change is nice sometimes. I gave up drinking many years ago though, so my drives to the border are done.
I went to college in Buffalo in the early 1980s. We would cross in Fort Erie Ontario to buy Canadian beer and gasoline. The beer had 6% alcohol and the gas was cheaper. Good times.
We did the opposite, went to Canada to get beer because you only had to be 19, and the beer was stronger! Even the American market versions of beer like Molson and Labatt are watered down ☹️
I had the very great fortune of visiting Hyder on July 4th. The whole town came out to celebrate. They had a parade, games and even fireworks. Probably most of this was in service of the many Canadian tourists, but it was great fun! Wonderful town, great folks.
I live in Washington and went to Point Roberts last summer. It was very interesting, probably most interesting is that the gas there is sold in liters like in Canada!
The boundary doesn't strictly follow the 52nd parallel. When laying the boundary out on the ground mistakes were made, including the infamous Fort Blunder. This was an American fort that was built in what was supposed to be Canadian territory. When the Maine boundary dispute was settled it was decided to leave the border as is instead of moving it to the 52nd parallel. So Fort Blunder was officially made American.
This is a fun video. I found three places where you overgeneralized though. 3:03 On the US side the border remains DEFENDED from a military standpoint because the US Coast Guard is a branch US Armed Forces and they patrol maritime borders like the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the borders across the Great Lakes also. (The Canadian Coast Guard is an agency of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans so it's non-military.) 6:35 The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled the Maine-New Brunswick land border disputes, but as of December 2024 ownership of Machias Seal Island is still disputed. The Canadian Coast Guard operates a manned lighthouse on the island. 6:10 The border is supposed to follow the 49th parallel but 19th century surveying wasn't all that great so the border between Sumas, WA and Abbotsford, BC is about 1/5 mile north of the 49th parallel. The same problem exists back east but it's twice as bad. The border between Derby Line, VT and Stanstead, QC is about 2/5 mile north of the 45th parallel. That's why the Haskell Free Library and Opera House is actually at 45°0′20.5″N 72°5′52″W. And in Derby Line the raw sewage goes down a pipe from the US straight into Canada. What does that symbolize?
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I got to visit one of the interesting anomalies not mentioned in this video, Machias-Seal Island in the Bay of Fundy. Canada and the U.S. still can't agree on who it belongs to, although its lighthouse is run by the Canadian Coast Guard, and in the summer it hosts marine life researchers from the University of New Brunswick. Canada's claim is based on the fact it is part of the same chain of islands that includes New Brunswick's Grand Manan Island, so at some point in geological history it would have been connected to the mainland in New Brunswick. It's main population (as opposed to Maine population, of which it has none) is seabirds: largely puffins and razorbills when I was there, but also murre, terns and eider ducks during the nesting season.
The fact that all of these little quirks around the borders exist all over the place and only cause tiny logistical issues makes it baffling that there isn't a BLT between the US and Canada.
Geoff, the only Fredericksburg, QC, I could fine is across the border from VT, rather than NY. Also, the only one listed on Wikipedia is across from that state. Did I miss something?
If you ride the Whirlpool Aero Car across the Whirlpool Rapids on the Niagara River you cross the border four times. The cables are connected to the Canadian side but cross the American section of the river in the middle.
The US-Canada border, the world's longest international border, stretches approximately 8,891 kilometers (5,525 miles). It features a blend of vast wilderness, urban crossings, and iconic landmarks like the Great Lakes. A look at the geography map reveals this border weaves through diverse terrains, from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific in the west, passing through mountains, forests, and prairies, highlighting the geographical richness of both nations.
As a child I would regularly cross the border from Boundary Bay Canada, to Point Roberts in the U.S. A 5 minute walk to the local grocery store. Just to buy the delicious candy that wasn't available in Canada!
I am from Prince George, BC. I went to Hyder, Alaska once and told them where I was from Prince George. Their reply? "Oh, Costco!" So I thought I was on vacation in a different country up until that point....
@hyperborean5812 unfortunately there have been allegations of alcohol, guns, cigarette smuggling and human trafficking where people died. No one talks about it because it isn't considered polite but it is creating problems between our countries. A sovereign nation needs to have control of its borders for security.
0:14 why are you Americans exaggerating so much 😂 USA and Canada have one of the simplest borders there is, it's literally a parallel line, no one else in the world does that
One of your best videos Geoff. I would've watched another 10 mins easily.
Thanks! You are a good guy and I love your videos. I also appreciate the change of inflection at the end of your sentences; although I wouldn’t have said anything, I am happy for the change. Keep up the good work. Now if I could only get my grandkids to watch your videos. . . . They live in Israel, which is where I am right now. Talk about weird geography. You could make a movie about it, although it might not be safe and you would have to do an update every other day. (Perhaps I exaggerate, but not by much.)
Thanks for the kind words John! I appreciate the support and your attempts to get your grandkids interested in geography! Just keep working on em. It'll eventually hit. That's how I caught the bug 🤠
I’ve been to Hyder while road tripping to AK. Drove around a bit and stopped for a bite to eat before going back into Canada. The border guard chatted with us about the bear we saw walking down Main Street and how our trip was going and let us go without even looking at our IDs
As a boy, I could walk into Canada without ID.
The vast majority of Canada is north of the Untied States except when you go South from Detroit MI to Windsor ON.
"Born and raised in south Detroit" -- so, you're Canadian, eh?
Yes and on south to Leamington, Ontario.
The vast majority of Canadians live east of Michigan.. So a lot of Americans live even further north than The people in Ontario obviously..
The majority of Canada is still south of most of Alaska.
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I'm so glad you changed your inflection and no longer make your voice go higher at the end of every sentence. Always loved the content, now I get to enjoy it with good narration!
@@marcom432 when you comment a compliment that’s really a criticism…
@@danielchilton5400 how is it a criticism to say his narration/inflection has improved?
I basically walk away from that way of speaking. It triggers me AoC style
I also like his new narration style.
@@danielchilton5400 how is that a criticism?
0:13 that’s actually pretty simple border, given its length
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I absolutely love geography oddities like you pointed out! Great job researching and making such a professional video.
The US & Canada should just exchange Campobello Island and Point Roberts. That would make life easier for both of them.
Not even our internal congress can agree on anything. If you really want to make things complicated, just look at our state borders for example.
Definitely. The people of Point Roberts were literally stranded during the lockdown. They have to cross into Tsawwassen, BC, just to travel East to the Peace Arch border, in order to cross back into Blaine, in Washington State.
@@michaelbinbc why weren’t they just treated as a part of Canada during covid, that’s so stupid
@@Deranged316 Because they're American, and the border was closed down except for trade. Why they weren't just a part of Canada to begin with is insane. It's the southern-most tip of a Canadian peninsula, but because it dips beneath the 49th Parallel, it's considered American. It's only 4,884 square miles. Couldn't they have made an exception? 😋
Having your country just magically swapped overnight, isn’t exactly all that simple especially when you’re guaranteed certain rights in one country and not others. Ever watch a documentary on the northwest angle.
There's also Canusa Street, which is half in Quebec, half in Vermont. You need permission from customs just to cross the road.
Same town as the library he was talking about
I wonder how it got so weird like this
so you have to get customs OK to go to bed after dinner????
@@orthohawk1026 only if you wish to have acid reflux.
If you took the 20 foot clearing of forest that makes up the US-Canada border and added the entire portion together it would be roughly the size of Key West, FL.
Mainer here, thanks for this cool reveal
You mean South Brunswick?
0:05 not so friendly anymore
Province Point VT is the strangest and smallest US exclave connected to Canada.
I'm in Vermont all the time but didn't know about this. Gotta make the visit there to see this.
Always great info. Thank you.
The reason for the Northwest Angle is that the treaty defined the border as running from the northwesternmost point of the Lake of the Woods WEST to the Mississippi River. No one knew it at the time, but the source of the Mississippi River is to the SOUTH of the Lake of the Woods. So in the treaty revision, they just amended that from the northwesternmost point of the Lake of the Woods to the 49th parallel, although at the time, they didn't know if that was to the north or to the south, just that it was nearby.
Also, another place you can drive between Canada and the US is in the International Peace Garden in North Dakota and Manitoba. You do need to check in as you come in, and you have to check in at Customs on the way out (whichever way you go), but while in the park, you can drive/walk back and forth across the border as much as you want. It's very pretty on a nice summer day, if a bit out of the way to get to.
There's also the giant Peace Arch on the Washington-British Columbia border, with surrounding parks maintained by both the state and the province. There are parking lots on both sides of the border, and it looks like you don't have to go through customs to come or go. Though you _do_ have to dodge traffic on crosswalks to get to the arch itself, since it's in the median of I-5/BC 99 (between the US and Canadian customs stations). And I wouldn't be surprised if the border patrol make sure people leave through the same side they came in from.
@@thomasrinschler6783 i live in St Pierre Jolys MB a short half hr ish drive down hwy 59 south to the tiny country border crossing to USA in the sticks to Lancaster Minnesota
Its def a tiny crossing no signage on Canadian side that its coming up or any warnings USA border ahead etc! I was new here few yrs ago and literally driving in the boonies country fields forrest lil farms down this hwy 59 south and had driven right into the small area of border crossing on the road ahead of me and had no idea how soon or that the hwy 59 south youll just drive right into a Canada USA border crossing! I turned around on a wide parking lot ish area of the hwy and then drove back
I'm planning a trip to Alaska next year so watching! Hello from Baja California, México.
You mean South California, right? Oh, actually I'm here for an unofficial routine patrol on time travelling timeline from 2040!
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6:52 Mainer here…the reason that the 45th parallel wasn’t extended was because of the vast logging operations in the northern part of Maine, known as the Allagash Wilderness. During the early 1800s, the Americans dammed lakes to alter the watersheds, diverting the flow from the Saint John river to the Penobscot to ship logs down to Bangor. To this day it is a huge logging operation though ironically and through a twist of fate…a large family owned company based in New Brunswick, Irving, owns most of the operations now 😂. The dams built to this day still have those lakes flowing south instead of north, but obviously they’re not sending logs down them anymore.
'notha Mainah here :) [although now in exile...] ... just barely old enough to remember the sight of a log-run-clogged Kennebec, and the foam-choked stench of same river in the summertime [ditto: Androscoggin, Penobscot, Saco ...]
@@joebaillar Some of those logs are still in the St. Croix River. Most of them are between Gravel Island and Loon Bay.
@@davidbois2605 What caused the foam?!
@@joebaillar Parts of the border between Maine and Canada are just insane, as if someone put down border markers nearly randomly and then played connect the dots with them. What happened there?
Geoff, another great video. Thanks for your work. Since you brought up the Glacier/Waterton Lakes N.Ps, may I point out that there's also the Int'l. Peace Park on the
ND/MB border.
You gave me some Hyder, AK, info which I didn't have. To return the favor, here's some info for you: Hyder is in the Panhandle, or Southeast, which is otherwise served by the State Ferry System/Marine Hwy., but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or a 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road; US mail is flown from Ketchikan; located 111 miles farther east than Ketchikan, it’s the easternmost city or town in Alaska.
The southernmost point (South Point of Middle Is., Ontario, in Lake Erie, and part of Pt. Pele [PEA-lee] N.P.) is farther south than all or part of 27 US states: MI, OH, PA, NY, CT, MA, RI, NH, VT, ME, IL, IN, WI, IA, MN, NE, SD, ND, WY, MT, ID, OR, WA, CA, NV, UT, AK.
I live on Whidbey Island and would see Pt. Roberts listings in the local phone book. I had no idea where point Roberts was and never thought about it. It was when Covid was a problem that I read an article about the people being stuck there.
Great work, Geoff!!!!!
Thank-you! I wondered about this
Fascinating ... great work ... Thank you Geoff!
So so neat loved this so much keep it up man love ur content.
That was fascinating Geoff. Nicely done.
There's a golf course in New Brunswick that can only be accessed by road from Maine.
I learnt about this border, it had something to do with the Oregon territory, where the people back then were using a really outdated map to draw it
I love learning about these odd little quirks of geography!
I spent a couple days and a night in Hyder. It's a rad lil town. The post office is the only place with clocks set to AK time, and it only accepts US dollars. There's a viewing platform above the creek there too. You can watch grizzlies, black bears, and bald eagles all feeding from it. There's also an old mining road that takes you up the mountain along a receding glacier. The road is beyond narrow with a sheer rock wall on one side and a terrifying drop on the other for most if it. There's a parking area to view the glacier. When I got to it the only thing I could see due to the dense fog was a lone Australian woman playing a didgeridoo. There was no car so she either hiked up there or was dropped off..... very surreal 😅 apparently some scenes from the movie The Thing were filmed up that old mining road. Wish I knew that when I was there
Great job! I already was familiar with the oddities of Pt Roberts, Lake of the Woods, and Derby Line -- but loved hearing about the lesser-known spots you presented. It's very interesting how (and why) national borders often ignore natural borders... It's always seemed that the St Lawrence River would create the US/Canada border -- which would mean you'd be looking at the US across the river from Quebec City. Of course that would mean that the Maritime Provinces would be part of the US... which probably wouldn't go over too well.
Quick correction: the road in VT that briefly crosses into Quebec is called "East Richford Slide Road". There are several YT videos specifically about it.
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Point Roberts, WA has to be weirdest part of this border.
I at bed a video about there during covid, seems extremely annoying to live, couldn’t do it myself,
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I used to live near that weird little bump in the border everybody things is so strange. But it's not that weird. The border in Northwest Ontario follows the Pidgeon river, the border in Western Canada is a strict straight 49th parallel border. These two meet at lake of the Woods, where this bump is. But lots of maps don't make it clear there's a lake there, so people get confused. That said, there is a decent sized peninsula that got cut off by the strait border, heading south, over there.
I lived in Derby Line for a few years and my parents still live there. I always found it interesting that the library has the line right on the floor. Good and interesting video you shared
Brilliant video spud, do one one the Welsh border especially though Chester
Funny, we visited a friend in Chester, and I lamented the fact that I'd never been to Wales, and she informed us that her house was actually in Wales, and so were we at that moment, so I finally visited Wales without even knowing it. (Thankfully, this was just before we drove to Snowdonia, and other areas of NW Wales, correcting that error of the past.)
Hi Geoff! Are you going to bring back 60 second cities? I know some people disliked them, but I had fun voting for Querétaro when it was an option
Sitting in Port Angeles, Wash., waving to all our friends in Victoria, B.C.
You are incredible! Have a joyous season!
I live in Crystal Lake, IL (a Chicago suburb), at a north latitude of 42.22335). I am further north than the southernmost point in Canada, which is in Point Pelee National Park on Middle Island in Lake Erie; Middle Island's south point has a north latitude of 41.68143
Point Pelee is further south than the northern border of California! One of my favourite Canadian geographical facts.
I live in Lake View,NY and I can see Canada from my kitchen window….when there isn’t 80mph winds and complete whiteouts of course.
Thank you for the km s. For us Europeans it is something difficult.
Well done, Geoff! 👏 This must have taken a lot of work. As a Canadian living in Spain, for the fun of it, I checked the length of the border and superimposed it on Europe - it is essentially from Dublin, Ireland to Ankara, Turkey!
One has to wonder, though, with the talk of heavy tariffs by the new U.S. government impacting the Canadian economy if there will be stricter measures in some of these buildings and areas coming up soon. Time will tell... Cheers!
I was wondering about this little blip when I saw it on another video of yours. Can you do one on the Kentucky bend too? Thank you
Fascinating and very informative! Thank you! 😮
Thanks this is very interesting and some spot are very crazy today
The video is truly captivating, have a great afternoon!
The Ontario border with the US is ~2700 kilometers long. But only ~1 kilometer of that border is land, the rest is a water border.
Cool video!
1:12 wait just a minute why is the "lake of the woods" infamous?
Excellent video! Maybe you want to do a follow up on how these oddities made life difficult for the residents during the COVID travel restrictions. I remember hearing about some of these communities at the time...
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Could you explain why the border between North and South Carolina is so irregular near Union County (NC) and Lancaster (SC) ? Thanks 😊
Arguably your best video to date
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Seen it a few times but never crossed except by air to go to Alaska and then Japan in Sept 2009.
You should do a video where you "fix" the Canadian-US border 😃
Hi Geoff, I loved your video because of the fascinating historical stories you highlighted and the wonderful job you do of delivering those stories in a highly engaging way! You make awesome map graphics and animation as well. Thank you!
Some other fun Vermont border facts. Vermont has two proper exclaves and a kind of exclave. Alburgh Vermont doesn't have a land border with the US but is accessible by bridge so doesn't really count. Just about 1500 feet east of it is an exclave called Province Point, a couple of acres of land that sticks out of Canada. There is nothing there but there is a border marker. Further East on Lake Memphremagog there is an island called Province Island, once again a few acres of the Southern tip of the island are in the US.
Estcourt Station, ME has houses that straddle the border, but I don't think anyone lives there anymore. There is a golf course on the border where the clubhouse is in the USA but most or all of the holes are in Canada. I think that's also in Maine.
It would have been nice to have an explanation of the Alaska Canadian border - that "finger" south along the coastline makes no sense whatsoever.
Probably get the explanation looking into the history between Russia and Canada. Since the US bought Alaska from Russia. I think Florida border is the same since it was also bought. Actually I think it was given away to the US to get them out of the Mexican-American war because Spain was also having issues holding onto Mexico. Didn't do much good since I think they ended up losing the war shortly after.
@@kosmosXcannon Spain was broke from all the fighting with everybody. They had land they couldn't hold on to anyway, so the U.S. got it all for a steal. Remember, a the time, Florida was a swamp. Well, the southern half of it, anyway.
There were border disputes leading to treaties in the case of Alaska as well.
There is a very interesting history that led to it. That border dispute led to Canada no longer automatically deferring to the British in their external affairs. A joint American-British-Canadian committee drew that line. The Canadians expected the British would of course side with them and thought they were putting one over on the Americans. But the British representative stabbed the Canadians in the back to curry favor with the Americans… as had been pre-arranged between them. Although, the Americans did not get everything they hoped for. They had wanted even more than they ended up getting.
A friend of mine did his PhD thesis on that dispute. :-)
1:59 FYI for future videos, the strait of Juan de Fuca is pronounced like "few-ka" not "foo-ka".
I’m from BC , near ish coast and immediately wondered if the proper way to pronounce it crossed his mind at all or if he didn’t even think there could be a different way.
4:00 you're missing the other customs to the west by the library.
So Geoff! Liked the review! But was waiting to hear about the busiest border between Windsor and/Detroit ( where I live in Canada) it is amazing to live in this area-we are a very American based city-mostly surrounded by water -we share so much between our 2 countries-there are always great stories from both sides that everyone would love to hear!
@4:06 You skipped over Province island, where the Taiwan shaped island has the tip of its peninsula in the US.
Very interesting! Thanks!
fun stuff! *very* well done.
i was *so* hoping you'd have gone on to include Estcourt Station, Maine among your bordertown oddities, although it's a bit of an obscurity :)
good job! 👍
Wow, this video was awesome! I had no idea the US-Canada border was so quirky and interesting. Learned a ton of cool stuff!"
You should do a piece on the Republic of Indian Stream. This was a short-lived independent state that was the result of an ambiguity. The 1783 Treaty of Paris defined the border between the United States and Canada as starting at the Northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River. But no one could agree which of the three tributaries was the northwesternmost head. Both Canada and New Hampshire claimed the same territory, and in the 1830s, that territory declared itself independent of both, and formed the Republic of Indian Stream.
Great video, Jegraffy by Geoph!
Way back in the dark ages of the 80's, my friends and I used to drive from Vancouver to Point Roberts just across the US border to buy cheap American beer sometimes. It didn't hold a candle to Canadian beer but, a change is nice sometimes. I gave up drinking many years ago though, so my drives to the border are done.
Ontario's drinking age used to be 19, my siblings used that fact to go up to Windsor to drink when it was possible 30 years ago.
@@ChristopherSobieniak use to be? still is lol hold enough to vote? old enough to drink, 18 in Quebec.
I went to college in Buffalo in the early 1980s. We would cross in Fort Erie Ontario to buy Canadian beer and gasoline. The beer had 6% alcohol and the gas was cheaper. Good times.
We did the opposite, went to Canada to get beer because you only had to be 19, and the beer was stronger! Even the American market versions of beer like Molson and Labatt are watered down ☹️
I had the very great fortune of visiting Hyder on July 4th. The whole town came out to celebrate. They had a parade, games and even fireworks. Probably most of this was in service of the many Canadian tourists, but it was great fun! Wonderful town, great folks.
I've crossed the border at Derby Line/Stanstead a couple of times. I really want to have time to stop at the library at some point.
This is the third video I have watched that’s come out this month about the US Canada border 🤷🏻♀️
I was wondering if you could do a video on fixing the US-Canada border?
I knew about all these oddities before, expect Hyder, Alaska.
I would never have realised can-us is the longest border in the world until you pointed it out.... Thanks!
I live in Washington and went to Point Roberts last summer. It was very interesting, probably most interesting is that the gas there is sold in liters like in Canada!
That was pretty cool Geoff. Thanks. But you never explained by Lake of the Woods is evil
The boundary doesn't strictly follow the 52nd parallel. When laying the boundary out on the ground mistakes were made, including the infamous Fort Blunder. This was an American fort that was built in what was supposed to be Canadian territory. When the Maine boundary dispute was settled it was decided to leave the border as is instead of moving it to the 52nd parallel. So Fort Blunder was officially made American.
Unless I missed it, you forgot Beebe Plain, Canusa Street; whereas the border runs right down the middle of the street (Quebec, and Vermont)
Considering that borders usually follow geographical or societal features the weirdest part is the 49th parallel.
This is a fun video. I found three places where you overgeneralized though.
3:03 On the US side the border remains DEFENDED from a military standpoint because the US Coast Guard is a branch US Armed Forces and they patrol maritime borders like the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the borders across the Great Lakes also. (The Canadian Coast Guard is an agency of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans so it's non-military.)
6:35 The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled the Maine-New Brunswick land border disputes, but as of December 2024 ownership of Machias Seal Island is still disputed. The Canadian Coast Guard operates a manned lighthouse on the island.
6:10 The border is supposed to follow the 49th parallel but 19th century surveying wasn't all that great so the border between Sumas, WA and Abbotsford, BC is about 1/5 mile north of the 49th parallel. The same problem exists back east but it's twice as bad. The border between Derby Line, VT and Stanstead, QC is about 2/5 mile north of the 45th parallel. That's why the Haskell Free Library and Opera House is actually at 45°0′20.5″N 72°5′52″W.
And in Derby Line the raw sewage goes down a pipe from the US straight into Canada. What does that symbolize?
Minnesota Is 130 Feet In Canada Also With The Secret Country To The West Of The Minnesota Spot Above The 49th Parallel ޔޒރެްެެދެ With About 28 People Living In Escolavia/English But It’s Normal Language Is Danish
I got to visit one of the interesting anomalies not mentioned in this video, Machias-Seal Island in the Bay of Fundy. Canada and the U.S. still can't agree on who it belongs to, although its lighthouse is run by the Canadian Coast Guard, and in the summer it hosts marine life researchers from the University of New Brunswick. Canada's claim is based on the fact it is part of the same chain of islands that includes New Brunswick's Grand Manan Island, so at some point in geological history it would have been connected to the mainland in New Brunswick. It's main population (as opposed to Maine population, of which it has none) is seabirds: largely puffins and razorbills when I was there, but also murre, terns and eider ducks during the nesting season.
Its like a Woodruff key. So the 2 country's dont slide apart.
Strictly speaking, the 45th parallel is SOUTH of Québec. I have crossed it a few times in the US.
The fact that all of these little quirks around the borders exist all over the place and only cause tiny logistical issues makes it baffling that there isn't a BLT between the US and Canada.
Who knew? Very interesting. Thanks.
Geoff, the only Fredericksburg, QC, I could fine is across the border from VT, rather than NY. Also, the only one listed on Wikipedia is across from that state. Did I miss something?
I've known a couplw of those, but very interesting to learn about the others!
If you ride the Whirlpool Aero Car across the Whirlpool Rapids on the Niagara River you cross the border four times. The cables are connected to the Canadian side but cross the American section of the river in the middle.
The US-Canada border, the world's longest international border, stretches approximately 8,891 kilometers (5,525 miles). It features a blend of vast wilderness, urban crossings, and iconic landmarks like the Great Lakes. A look at the geography map reveals this border weaves through diverse terrains, from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific in the west, passing through mountains, forests, and prairies, highlighting the geographical richness of both nations.
3:20 I love this, it's only 20 Minutes from where I live, a very unique place! 😍
This is really interesting.
As a child I would regularly cross the border from Boundary Bay Canada, to Point Roberts in the U.S. A 5 minute walk to the local grocery store. Just to buy the delicious candy that wasn't available in Canada!
Why couldn’t they just make point Robert part of Canada like for Vancouver island?
Maybe point Robert does not want to be part of Canada
I am from Prince George, BC. I went to Hyder, Alaska once and told them where I was from Prince George. Their reply? "Oh, Costco!"
So I thought I was on vacation in a different country up until that point....
Machais Seal Island remains in dispute between the USA and Canada. Is in part of Maine or part of New Brunswick?
It’s in a state of quantum superposition!
Nothing about going SOUTH into Windsor Ontario from Detroit?
How do you straddle a river??? The river bisects the lakes.
8:44 Mohawks retain the right to cross the border without obsctruction
@@hyperborean5812 by border guard buddy at the Dundee crossing had hilarious stories.
@hyperborean5812 unfortunately there have been allegations of alcohol, guns, cigarette smuggling and human trafficking where people died. No one talks about it because it isn't considered polite but it is creating problems between our countries. A sovereign nation needs to have control of its borders for security.
0:14 why are you Americans exaggerating so much 😂 USA and Canada have one of the simplest borders there is, it's literally a parallel line, no one else in the world does that
Don't blame Americans for this guy, he's always creating these click bait videos.
How do you watch a nba game v Toronto?
Do you need a passport to watch ?
Asking from the UK 🇬🇧
@@DUKEOFSOUNDS .. why would you need a passport?
it's more complicated than that
Yeah, west of the Lake of the Woods, but from there East to Maine? Not so straight.