Tag: Border Postcards

  • On the Line: The Canada-U.S. Boundary in Postcards

    On the Line: The Canada-U.S. Boundary in Postcards

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    For many Americans and Canadians alike, the border between our two nations is our first international border-crossing experience. I remember my first crossing; all I had to do was tell the agent where I was born. It’s more complicated today, but here is a postcard account of what it was like years ago.

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for Those Who Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead Reading Poetry The picture you see on this real photo postcard is apparently well known to those who have studied or researched a man frequently called, The Bard of the Yukon – Robert W. Service.  It seems this image is one of only a few photos of Service taken while […]

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