He estimates he lost $1.2 million in American business. Malenfant, speaking in his office 18 miles from the border, said he had to turn down jobs from paper mills in Maine and New Hampshire as he restructured his business back toward Canada. During the pandemic, he said, he had to lay off his American workers at the Littleton, N.H.,-based affiliate he started in 2016, because it was too hard for their Canadian supervisors to cross the border. Steve Malenfant, 48, owns a company in Magog, Quebec, that installs and maintains high-tech industrial equipment. But the pandemic put stress on those links. The economies of New England and Quebec, especially the Cantons de l’Est region along the border, have been deeply intertwined for more than a century. The latest disruptions during the pandemic had consequences far beyond the little communities abutting the border. But border closures and restrictions forced people to alter long-held routines. Once, the towns were bound together economically and culturally. Richard Creaser walked near the border separating Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vt.
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