now the door opens only for Quebec
For over 120 years, neighbors on opposite sides of the border have met over a strip of black tape on the floor. But now it’s over. The unique Haskell Free Library and Opera House – built deliberately on the US-Canada border in 1904 – has had to open a separate entrance only for Canadian visitors.
The library and opera house were once a symbol of seamless unity. Americans and Canadians walked freely through the building, unhindered by anything other than a symbolic border marked with tape. But in October 2025, the Trump regime put an end to that freedom. Read
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Now, Canadians can no longer use the original main entrance – which is located in Vermont on the American side. It is closed to them.
Emergency exit became new main entrance
The solution? A former emergency exit on the Canadian side has been rebuilt into a completely new entrance – only for Quebec residents. The project has cost large sums of money and is partly financed by the local community itself, through voluntary work and fundraising.
For the locals, it is a sad victory. For more than a century, the Haskell Library has been more than just a building – it has been a living symbol that borders do not have to separate neighbors. Now the new entrance is as reminiscent of what was lost, as of what was saved.
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