Stanstead, Quebec

Stanstead
Town
View of Stanstead from across the Canada–United States border
Nickname:  Granite Capital of Canada[1]
Motto(s):  Three Villages, One Border—Trois Villages, Une Frontière
Location within Memphrémagog RCM
Stanstead Location in Quebec
Coordinates: 45°01′N 72°06′W / 45.017°N 72.100°W / 45.017; -72.100
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
RCM	Memphrémagog
Settled	1789–1796
Constituted	February 15, 1995
Government [2][3]
• Mayor	Jody Stone
• Federal riding	Compton—Stanstead
• Prov. riding	Orford
Area [2][4]
• Total	22.30 km2 (8.61 sq mi)
• Land	22.72 km2 (8.77 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[4]
• Total	2,857
• Density	125.8/km2 (326/sq mi)
• Pop 2006–2011	3.4%
• Dwellings	1,361
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J0B 1E0, J0B 2K0, & J0B 3E0
Area code	819
Highways A-55	R-143 R-247
Website	www.stanstead.ca

Stanstead is a town in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, located on the Canada–United States border across from Derby Line, Vermont.

The Town of Stanstead was created in 1995 by the merger of the former villages of Stanstead Plain and Beebe (formerly Beebe Plain) and the Town of Rock Island. It is not to be confused with the township of Stanstead, which is nearby although not directly adjacent (the municipality of Ogden lies in between). Not only is Stanstead home to the Haskell Free Library and Opera House—the only heritage building deliberately constructed straddling the border between both countries—it also features Canusa Street (Rue Canusa), one of a number of streets in the world where the country border corresponds to the middle line marker, effectively making across-the-street neighbors residents of two countries.