Examines Canadian-American relations in the West. This collection of essays views the boundary between Canada and the United States not just as a dividing line, but also as a regional backbone, with people on each side having key experiences and attitudes in common.

Canadian border has meant different things to different people, and those meanings have changed over time, but the situation today is the evolution of cross-border integration that took place in the past, and each side of this borderlands region remains, in part, the creation of the other. John M. Findlay is professor of history at the University of Washington. Ken S. Coates is professor of history and dean of arts and sciences at the University of Saskatchewan. Other contributors are Carl Abbott, Michael Fellman, John Lutz, Daniel P. Marshall, Jeremy Mouat, Galen Roger Perras, Chad Reimer, Joseph E. Taylor III, Patricia K. Wood, and Donald Worster.