After more than two decades, a border security headache is finally over for a New Brunswick golf course tucked up against the U.S. border in the rolling hills of Victoria County.
Club’s Canadian neighbour donates land for trail, letting golfers avoid U.S. entanglements
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 15, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
A new trail has alleviated long-standing challenges for Canadians trying to get to a golf course in their own country that’s snuggled up against the New Brunswick-Maine border. (Michael Heenan/CBC)
A two-decade-long border security headache is finally over for a New Brunswick golf course tucked up against the U.S. border in the rolling hills of Victoria County.
Canadian golfers now have a safe, legal and all-Canadian route to the picturesque Aroostook Valley Country Club near Perth-Andover.
“The future of our club is back and very bright, and the club is vibrant,” said Stephen Leitch, the club manager and golf pro.
Leitch credits a Canadian family that itself had to put up with the U.S. crackdown on the once-relaxed border area.
“I just went, ‘You know what — this is never going to change,'” said Mary Pedersen, a Fredericton physician who grew up down the road — the American road – from the course.
“So I said, ‘I’ll donate the land.'”
Pedersen and her family transferred a strip of land running along the Canadian side of the border to create a trail that golfers use to shuttle into and out of the course on golf carts.
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