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Two Countries, One Street

Jean Palardy · Canada · Documentary · 29 min · 14K views

Directed by Jean Palardy · Starring Robert Anderson · 1955

A visit to the border towns of Quebec and Vermont where an international boundary runs through streets and buildings, and to how residents and officials manage daily civic life across it.

A charming 1950s portrait of towns literally split in two by the Canada–US border.

This short documentary visits the 3 Quebec border towns of Rock Island, Stanstead and Beebe, and the Vermont town of Derby Line to see how residents and officials cope with a civic life that is cut down the middle by an

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