Estcourt Station is located on the
Canada–United States border between Maine and
Quebec, at the southern end of
Lake Pohenegamook in the
North Maine Woods region. It derives its name from the adjacent village of
Estcourt, Quebec, which is part of the larger municipality of
Pohénégamook. The
Estcourt Station–Pohénégamook Border Crossing is staffed during the work week, usually for processing
logging trucks that access Maine's
North Woods to haul
timber to Quebec
saw mills. The populated part of Estcourt Station is essentially a sliver of the village of Estcourt that was cut off when the international boundary was properly surveyed through the area (see
Webster–Ashburton Treaty). It consists of a row of several houses along Rue de la Frontière, a street on the Quebec side of the border, some of which were built before the survey and which the border now passes through. Although the US census reports that four people live in the village, according to a
Canada Border Services Agency agent, no one lives in Estcourt Station full-time . A few U.S. residents live in the village during the summer. They must follow the hours of the border control stations; thus, after 5 p.m. on Friday, they cannot leave until 8 a.m. Monday. Anyone wishing to travel between Pohénégamook and Estcourt Station legally after hours would have to travel on hundreds of miles of private logging roads through the North Maine Woods that are difficult to navigate during spring and summer rains, and almost inaccessible because of snow during the winter; there are no towns or paved roads in the North Maine Woods. Likewise, Estcourt Station is connected to
Hydro-Québec for
electricity. The community receives
drinking water and other municipal services from Pohénégamook.
Canadian National Railway's transcontinental main line between
Halifax and
Montreal passes immediately north of Rue de la Frontière. ==Michel Jalbert incident==