FYI-Where folks live in Canada

It's all part of Turtle Island. And it's all ours.
Gimmee it back!

gm

v10superduty wrote:
Another FYI.....
If you notice where the North West Angle pops up INTO Canada on the map be aware of the battle for that piece of land.
At one time when they were drawing the border between CAN-USA / Ont-Minn, the original plan (Canada was pushing for) followed the 49th parallel to Lake Of The Woods then angled southeasterly to about where Duluth MN is..
That would have given Canada all the ore deposits later uncovered and still being mined in the Virginia, MN area.

Canada lost that battle and got the protruding piece that looks a little like a finger poking up from Minnesota...:B

They showed us eh? :W

I'm not sure of the source of your info, nor how much of a 'battle' there was for that spit of land.

It was merely the result of an inadvertent error in the Treaty of Paris, the error was caused by the use of a map from 1783 that was wrong.

They agreed the present boundary as a compromise to each side.

It is however not the only bit of the US land-locked by Canadian soil, there are several.

v10superduty wrote:


They showed us eh? :W

We have more than our fair share of resources...........kind of neighborly that we gave it up to our American cousins ;)

G M - it's people like you what causes unrest (from Monty Python).

BTW - you MISSED Hongcouver.

bbt.

Another FYI.....
If you notice where the North West Angle pops up INTO Canada on the map be aware of the battle for that piece of land.
At one time when they were drawing the border between CAN-USA / Ont-Minn, the original plan (Canada was pushing for) followed the 49th parallel to Lake Of The Woods then angled southeasterly to about where Duluth MN is..
That would have given Canada all the ore deposits later uncovered and still being mined in the Virginia, MN area.

Canada lost that battle and got the protruding piece that looks a little like a finger poking up from Minnesota...:B

They showed us eh? :W

But for many of us that is the new normal.

GM

Be glad when summer gets here. I think we've all been cooped up too long and are getting cabin fever - acting a bit crazy.

GM

Grey Mountain wrote:

Little Kopit wrote:

Grey Mountain wrote:
TROC = The Rest Of Canada

I've been to all eighteen provinces.

GM

Once you get past the 10 provinces who send members to Parliament and the 3 Territories yet to become provinces, name the additional 8 provinces, pretty please.

;)

Kentuckistan, the Rock of Gibralter, Nano0k of the North, Freedonia, Smorgasbord, Arizona and Campbell River.

GM

Not including Baffinland, Canada's largest island?

:P

Grey Mountain wrote:
Also been to all 57 states.

GM

Way too much smoke,open the flap on the teepee.
:W

Little Kopit wrote:

Grey Mountain wrote:
TROC = The Rest Of Canada

I've been to all eighteen provinces.

GM

Once you get past the 10 provinces who send members to Parliament and the 3 Territories yet to become provinces, name the additional 8 provinces, pretty please.

;)

Kentuckistan, the Rock of Gibralter, Nano0k of the North, Freedonia, Smorgasbord, Arizona and Campbell River.

GM