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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The 49th Parallel (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A listener takes us to a town on the edge of the longest undefended border in the world.  Note: US-Canada border regulations have been updated since this episode first aired. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/uscanada-border-slash GREAT NEWS: We’re up for an award - and you can help us win! Our podcast has been named a finalist for the Signal Awards! Go to vote.signalaward.com and vote for us in the best commute podcast category through Oct 5!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I have a quick favorite ask.

0:06.8

We are up for a signal award.

0:09.2

This is like a podcast awards thing.

0:12.6

And we're in the category of best commute podcast.

0:16.6

It would be really lovely if people wanted to go and vote for us in that category.

0:22.2

It is the signal awards and the category is best commute podcast.

0:26.4

If you went over there and voted for out a subscura, I would be very grateful.

0:31.2

Okay, onto the show.

0:39.6

Hi, you have reached the out a subscura podcast line.

0:43.0

I'm going through it.

0:44.2

Leave me a message about a strange, unusual or surprising place that happens to be near where you grew up or where you live now.

0:53.2

Hi, my name is Patty McCalsky.

0:55.2

And we live in kind of a time warp.

0:58.2

It's a small fishing village, just a few steps south of the Canadian border.

1:03.2

It's still very much a fishing village.

1:06.2

Both white and native people go out fishing every day and night that they're allowed.

1:12.2

And really, if you remove the sound of the diesel engines, there's nothing that's going on today that hasn't gone on.

1:18.2

It takes me back hundreds of thousands of years.

1:21.2

You can see the way the life just continues on the way it always has.

1:25.2

Something very timeless about it.

1:28.2

One of the cool things about Blaine is that in the late 19th century, this is where the Americans and the British first net

1:35.2

to establish the 49th parallel separating our two countries.

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