Estcourt Station

Estcourt Station (altitude: 204 meters , 4 inhabitants) is a hamlet in the north of Aroostook County in the US state of Maine . It is the northernmost point of Maine and thus also of New England .

Estcourt Station is on the border between Maine and the Canadian province of Québec , at the southern end of Lake Pohenegamook . It derives its name from the contiguous Canadian village of Estcourt , which belongs to the municipality of Pohenegamook .

Estcourt Station is made up of several houses, some of which were built before the international border in the area was precisely established by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty . There is a grocery store and a small, now closed gas station. The place has no public road connection to the rest of the state of Maine; only a number of private roads, which are maintained by logging companies, extend from the settlement to the south, into the northern part of Maine.

Instead, the houses in Estcourt Station, the shop and the petrol station are connected by Rue Frontière ; this is a road on the Canadian side of the state border. Estcourt Station also uses the Canada code, 418, and is connected to Hydro-Québec's electrical grid . The drinking water supply and other municipal services are also provided by Pohenegamook on the northern side of the border.

The main line of the Canadian National Railway between Halifax and Montreal passes right by.

There are border checkpoints on both sides of the state border, but they are manned only a few hours a day to handle the trucks that bring the timber cut in Maine's forests to sawmills in Québec.

Michel Jalbert incident

Gas station near the border

In October 2002, US Secretary of State Colin Powell described an incident as "unfortunate" when Michel Jalbert, a Pohenegamook resident, was jailed for three months in the United States after being out of duty at the Estcourt gas station Station had refueled. Officials of the United States Border Patrol reported that Jalbert was a convicted felon and illegal weapons possession.

Web links

• Trouble at the border , English
• The Immigration Case Of Michel Jalbert Teaches Larger Lessons , English
• Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham Press Availability , English

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '  N , 69 ° 13'  W