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Monument Road. The US purchased 12,580 square feet of land on the south side of Monument Road on May 25, 1932, and spent $5,625 to erect a red brick border station, which saw little traffic. This crossing was about 2000 feet north of Monument #1, which marks the beginning of the land border between the US and Canada.
Location. The Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, commonly known as the Whirlpool Bridge or the Lower Steel Arch Bridge (before 1937), is a spandrel braced, riveted, two-hinged arch bridge that crosses the Canada–United States border, connecting the commercial downtown districts of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.
September 10, 2014. The Derby Line–Stanstead Border Crossing is a border crossing station on the Canada–United States border, connecting the towns of Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. It connects Main Street ( U.S. Route 5) in Derby Line with Quebec Route 143 in Stanstead. It is one of two local crossings between the two towns (the ...
The Sweetgrass–Coutts Border Crossing connects the town of Sweet Grass, Montana, with the village of Coutts, Alberta, on the Canada–United States border. I-15 on the American side joins Alberta Highway 4 on the Canadian side. Similarly, BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) connect. A primary conduit for cross border trade ...
The Point Roberts–Boundary Bay Border Crossingconnects the communities of Point Roberts, Washington, and Tsawwassen, British Columbiaon the Canada–US border. Tyee Drive on the American side joins 56 Street on the Canadian side. The crossing is the westernmost in the contiguous United States.[1]
The US built its first border station at Frontier in 1965, and replaced it with a new station in 2011. Prior to 1965, visitors entering from Canada at both this crossing and at the Boundary-Waneta border crossing were directed to proceed to the customs office in Northport, Washington, several miles away. Frontier was the name of the Washington ...
Border inspection services at what is now known as the Peace Arch Border Crossing long predated the 1921 construction of the Peace Arch. [4]The Peace Arch, dedicated in 1921, commemorates the Treaty of Ghent and the Rush-Bagot agreement ending the War of 1812, which "provided for peaceful resolution of U.S.—British disputes and an unguarded U.S./Canadian border."
2006. Opened. November 16, 2009. Location. The International Avenue Bridge is an international bridge across the St. Croix River, connecting the town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick in Canada with the city of Calais, Maine in the United States . It is the third, busiest, and newest bridge connecting the two communities, in addition to the Ferry ...