Two countries · one border · ties that reach far past it

The longest
undefended
friendship

The ties between the US and Canada have been built over generations. They will still be here when the noise has passed.

Families, shared places, friendships, work, school, sport, help given and received. Kingston and Alexandria Bay. Detroit and Windsor. Seattle and Vancouver. Bar Harbor and Yarmouth. Gander and New York. The border runs between them on a map and nowhere else.

Division is the loudest story right now. It is not the biggest one. Add yours.

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Then pass it on to the person on the other side of your story.

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What people have added so far.

The long record

None of this is sentiment. It is the documented record of two countries that have been useful to each other for two hundred years, through every kind of noise.