Haskell Library fundraiser shatters goal as cross-border solidarity grows

Haskell Library fundraiser shatters goal as cross-border solidarity grows

By William Crooks Local Journalism Initiative The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has long stood as a symbol of friendship between Canada and the United States, straddling the international border in the towns of Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont. But a recent decision by the U.S. government to close the entrance to the building (located on U.S. soil) to Canadians has sparked a wave of international support—and a GoFundMe campaign …

The Vermont on one side, the Quebec on the other. The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is crossed in its centre by the border between the United States and Canada. The institution has been a link between two friendly countries for a hundred and twenty years, but it does not escape geopolitical reversals, went to see the Globe and Mail.