erratum
in the penultimate thought below
beginning with the word finally
please substitute
& possibly a few similar ones but minus the glacier
where interprovincial boundaries run thru heads of navigation
the mistake was due to my confusing the ca2 class with the caus2 class
as you can see i was drunk at the time
& was an actual blunder rather than pure silliness
caus2 is of course a whole nother story than ca2
which also needs further renovation
but since i am aware of some mixed opinions about the hybrids
i will keep these low profile pending any express interest other than my own
>
>just finished nicholsons 1979 edition of the canadian boundary bible
>& for anyone who has only seen the 1954 edition
>i can at least report the following highlights
>
>first the conspicuous absence once again of any explanation for nor even
>any mention of that most intriguing & mysterious feature on the canadian
>map
> namely the stagger stepping mbsk interprovincial border
>
> btw can anyone here explain what caused this boundary freak
>
>
>second a confirmation that the glacier at the head of tarr inlet had indeed
>already retreated sufficiently for the sea to break the continental
>territory of the alaska panhandle into 2 distinct parts & thus to create
>the outlet to the sea from northern british columbia that britain had been
>imploring the usa for since the overgenerous russian cession of more than
>the true alaska to the usa in 1867 effectively robbed the brits & thus
>canada of their rights to any maritime access there
>
> so here we have a prior & natural outbreak of bosnian bathtub territory
> for whatever use it might be
> since it is probably still hemmed in by the glacier
>
>nicholson also mentions the entertaining fact that the retardation of
>normal growth in the region owing to the lack of coastal access prompted
>the brits to offer the yanks british honduras in exchange for the alaska
>panhandle in 1918
>
>
>but perhaps most significantly for the future of try pointing in canada is
>nicholsons absolute confirmation that coastal & even interior navigable
>waters are the exclusive territory of the crown
>
> & are therefore the province of the federal government if you will
> just like the 3 federal land territories of yukon & nwt & nunavut
> & are thus coresponsible with those territories & the literal provinces
> for producing a large class of somewhat provincial tripoints
> but which are technically really only federative tripoints
> yet are terribly important anyway
> since canada in all her vastness has no true triprovincial points
>
>for nicholson clarifies further here that the watery federal province
>surrounds all of continental & insular canada north of the usa
>& by some accounts reaches the north pole at the outer extremity
>& by all interpretations reaches at least as far inland as the first
>obstacles to navigation on every river of canada
>
>the immediate effect of this news is to throw the census of canadian
>secondary tripoints into further chaos
>for until this discovery canada was thought to have a secondary level
>comprising only 4 multipoints in all & all of them merely federative in
>character
>& so perhaps in many minds already second rate or minor league
>
>
>an earlier tentative count of the crown waters federative tripoints made
>with crude maps last year when their existence was first surmised found 28
>cases of them to add to the 4 dry land multifederatives
>
>but the new complication of navigable rivers
>plus a recent discovery of more detailed maps
>together suggest that the count will climb much higher before all is said &
>done
>especially since it now appears that the new nwt nunavut boundary strikes
>the seacoast many more times than previously suspected
>
>
>finally
>the combined effect of 2 of the above revelations produces definite
>confirmation of 2 new binational glacial bathtub tripoints in tarr inlet
> the alaska british columbia crown waters twins
>& possibly many similar ones not previously expected
>where navigable canadian internal waters meet the caus international boundary
>
>
>for further progress to be made here tho
>better canadian maps than any that have found so far will be necessary
>
>max
>
>
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