Quebec border library opens new Canadian entrance (opens in new tab)

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which sits on the Canada-U.S. border between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont, inaugurated a new entrance on its Canadian side Wednesday, allowing Canadian visitors to enter without first passing through a U.S. border checkpoint. The library had long used a U.S.-side entrance under an arrangement that allowed Canadians to visit without a passport or customs processing, but U.S. authorities ended that access, citing illicit cross-border activ...