Trump ends Canadians' access to entrance to border

For more than a century, Canadians in Stanstead, Quebec, could walk through a door in the Haskell Free Library into Derby Line, Vermont, without passing through customs

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STANSTEAD, Que. — In a picturesque town on the Canada-U.S. border, workers under dark clouds were building a new entrance for Canadians into a library to replace one that had long symbolized bilateral closeness. Article content

For more than a century, Canadians in Stanstead, Quebec, could walk through a door in the Haskell Free Library into Derby Line, Vermont, without passing through customs. Article content Article content

But President Donald Trump’s administration has canceled the arrangement, citing the need to counter “illicit cross-border activities.”

Standing on the black line inside the li