How do you move a village? Residents of France's last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea

As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residentsFranck Detcheverry, Miquelon's 41-year-old mayor, trudges up a grassy hill. "The view isn't too bad, huh?" he jokes. The ocean sparkles 40 metres below the empty mound. The sound of a man playing the bagpipes, as if serenading the sea, floats up from the shoreline. This hill will be the location of his new home and those of all his fellow villagers.In the distance, about half a mile away, you can see the outline of the 400 or so buildings in the village of Miquelon. It sits only 2 metres above sea level on the archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Situated off the Canadian coast to the south of Newfoundland, it is an "overseas collectivity" of France, and the country's last foothold in North America. Continue reading...