The village was a separate community in the 1890s which later became part of Coaticook municipality.

Located on the Canada–United States border, in front of the town of Norton (Essex County, Vermont); Stanhope spans its residential area on a main road west of the Coaticook River, nearby the Montreal-Sherbrooke-Portland rail.

[2] To the east is located the now defunct Stanhope Airport and, on the Quebec Route 147, the border control station.

The village had a small private airport, is crossed by the Quebec Route 147 and by the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad.

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