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unusual facts about U.S.-Canada border



Big Twenty Township

The treaty, named for US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and United Kingdom Privy Counsellor Lord Ashburton, ended the Aroostook War and also set the US–Canada border further west.

Hadashville, Manitoba

This Whitemouth River area is very close to the western edge of the Canadian Shield, and just north of the United States border.

International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor

This supercorridor uses existing highways such as the Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minnesota.

Interstate 15

At Sweet Grass, I-15 terminates upon crossing the Canadian border into the province of Alberta; however, I-15 signage is present on Alberta Highway 4 southbound from Lethbridge to the U.S.-Canada border.

Transport in Lethbridge

Highway 4 leads out to satellite communities (such as Stirling and Warner) and the Canada-United States border, where it meets Interstate 15, connecting eventually to Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and San Diego.

U.S. Route 95

As of 2010, the highway's northern terminus is in Boundary County, Idaho, at the Canadian border crossing of Eastport, where it continues north as BC 95.


see also

54-40

The band takes their name from the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!", coined to express the unsuccessful expansionist agenda of James K. Polk's presidency, intent upon controlling a contested U.S.-Canada border area in the Oregon boundary dispute.