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Al Jazeera
Politics
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

US blocking Canadian access to historical library on Quebec-Vermont border

The Haskell Free Library opened in 1905, a year after the adjoining Opera House [File: Simon Lacombe/Al Jazeera]

Montreal, Canada – US President Donald Trump’s administration is cutting off Canada’s main access point to a historical library that straddles the border between the Canadian province of Quebec and the US state of Vermont.

In a joint statement late on Thursday, the Quebec border town of Stanstead and the Haskell Free Library and Opera House said the United States had made the “unilateral decision to close the main Canadian access” to the building.

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