U.S.-Canada towns marooned by border closure brace for winter trapped in isolation

A private ferry service, which runs during the summer months, loads vehicles on the only route connecting the community of Campobello Island with Canada from its berth on Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada August 3, 2020. REUTERS/John Morris

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - They are small towns along the Canadian-American border, marooned by geography, whose residents' lives have already been upended by the border closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

But with winter approaching, residents of Campobello Island in Canada's Atlantic province of New Brunswick and the small U.S. town of Point Roberts in Washington state are bracing for continued isolation adding to winter blues, exposing how tightly intertwined are communities that straddle an international border.