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The border between British North America and the North-East of the United States, defined in 1842, cut in half a community established in the region for almost half a century. Frontiers established after population settlement usually impose on them artificial distinctions that do not respect the latter’s modes of interaction. Their hardening, part of a process of state building, upset existing social and economic relationships. Here, however, geography, commercial interests and real or feigned American disinterest delayed the taking of the border seriously, and this allowed the local inhabitants to preserve a transnational economy and society.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.