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The dead ignore borders

View of a cemetery that crosses the border; some graves are in Canada and others in the United States. Once again, the border isn’t marked. The Boundary Commission considered placing a granite marker of its own among the headstones, but it later decided it was best to let these souls rest in peace in the country where they thought they were buried.

Credit: The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), United Divide: A Linear portrait of the USA/Canada Border. Chapter 3: The 45th Parallel.  https://clui.org/projects/united-divide/45th-parallel. All data on the CLUI site is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.

View of a cemetery that crosses the border; some graves are in Canada and others in the United States. Once again, the border isn’t marked. The Boundary Commission considered placing a granite marker of its own among the headstones, but it later decided it was best to let these souls rest in peace in the country where they thought they were buried.