Living on the edge: The personality of a border community

Of the millions of people that live in the Great Lakes region, there is a group of us that see—on a daily basis—a special partnership between the two countries responsible for protecting the Great Lakes. For residents of cross border communities like Buffalo, New York and Fort Erie, Ontario, seeing a foreign country is an everyday experience. When I kayak on the Niagara River, not only can I see Canada, they can see me.