Subject: Re: mbsk
Date: May 31, 2003 @ 15:45
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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>ones) would
> I'm sure that that is the case -- that they appear at each turning
> point.
>
> Having grown up in Manitoba, I noticed that highways (minor
> also take similar jogs. I always thought that this hadsomething to do
> withlittle
> the curvature of the earth. Hey, I was just a kid!
>
> Check out Map #2 (its a pdf) from this site:
> http://www.gov.mb.ca/tgs/map/
>
> Notice that many of the highways south-west of Winnipeg have
> jogs?to
>
> I wonder... I wonder...
>
>
>
> On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 07:09 PM, acroorca2002 wrote:
>
> > ahh then doug you have placed your grandparents right next
> > one of the most mysterious lines on the face of the earthcaused
> >
> > the crazy stairstepping mbsk line
> >
> > you can even see one of its stairsteps in your map link
> > right behind the house
> >
> > & nobody knows why the federal government circa 1890
> > this boundary to stagger its way north in such a peculiar waywith
> > dozens of little jogs like yoursoften
> > yet at highly irregular intervals
> >
> > it is as if the survey crew just went off on a bender every so
> >about it
> > yet always in the same erratic direction
> >
> > & not even the provincial surveyors societies have a clue
> >up &
> > sure would like to know if anyone can figure that one out tho
> >
> > but to come to the point of your question
> > i dont doubt there must be a bunch of these monuments all
> > down the linefrom
> > but particularly at all the stairstep turnpoints
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray
> > <doug@d...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Great Pics, Mike.
> > >
> > > The pinkish one looks exactly like the marker I remember
> > near myborder
> > > grandparents farm.
> > >
> > > That marker was located on Thunderhill. The MB-SK
> > ran over thefrom
> > > "mountain."
> > >
> > > Thunderhill is located just north of Highway 49 which runs
> > Arran,them
> > > Saskatchewan to Benito, Manitoba.
> > > (My Grandparents lived in the village of Kenville, MB).
> > >
> > > A map is here:
> > http://www.becquet.com/director/maps/Pelly.htm
> > >
> > > I wonder if its the same one? Or if there are a bunch of
> > all upwrote:
> > > and down the line?
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Michael Kaufman
> > >Terms of
> > > > Doug -
> > > > Not sure where I found these, but ran across them
> > > > awhile back...
> > > > -Mike
> > > >
> > > > --- Doug Murray <doug@d...>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > The link:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.gov.nf.ca/nfmuseum/images/
> > > > > bordersurveymarkerblancsablonjuly112002.jpg
> > > > >
> > > > > Doug Murray
> > > > > Doug Murray Productions / Border Films
> > > > > CBC Infomatrix / CBC POV Sports
> > > > > Vancouver, BC
> > > > > +1.604.728.1407
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/jpeg x-unix-mode=0644;
> > > > name=bidlogo.jpg
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > <image.tiff>
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> > > +1.604.728.1407
> >
> >
> <image.tiff>
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