"Navigable waters" in Canada appear to be defined much more narrowly:
Navigable Waters Protection Act:
"navigable water" includes a canal and any other body of water created or
altered as a result of the construction of any work."
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/N-22/76767.html
David
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, michael donner wrote:
> bus&ss indicates that the point adopted in 1925 for the new north limit of
> the usa in the lake of the woods displaced it northward from swampland into
> open water
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> & nicholson 1979 says about the 1925 change
> as the international boundaries of canada are also coincident with its
> provincial boundaries except where they pass thru navigable waters etc
> provincial recognition by manitoba followed in 1928 as it had to
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> so it would appear that not only were the claves eliminated by the 1925
> change but a manitoba minnesota ontario binational tripoint was
> eliminated as well
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> >Northwest angle used to have several enclaves in its NW arm of Lake of the
> >Woods, that were removed in 1925. A map of the issues is on p137 of Stephen
> >B. Jones, (1945), _Boundary-making a handbook for statesmen, treaty editors
> >and boundary commissioners_, Carnegie endowment for international peace,
> >division of international law, monograph No.8. Washington DC.
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> >As martin said , this has been republished recently.
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> >BW
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> still trying to visualize what tripoints do remain now tho
> so excuse me if i ramble on
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> within canada it appears there must be a crown manitoba ontario tripoint
> very close by
> at the first landfall due north of the changed minnesota north point
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> & i am glad at first to realize this because i have been trying to upgrade
> my count of the canadian internal multipoints
> having just broken thru last night on multimap to a fairly credible count
> of 25 places where the prolific nunavut northwest territories boundary
> touches the seacoast
> the great majority of these on victoria & mackenzie king islands btw
> & so i have been scurrying all over the map of canada trying to complete
> this try
> which has appeared to involve only about another dozen points or so
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> but
> oh
> the try has actually just gotten blown to smithereens
> because i realize i cant say what navigable waters actually are
> or more to the point what canada thinks they are
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> i think they are probably any waters navigable by even the smallest craft
> given that the royal preemption of them dates to earliest times
> & they very probably include lakes & rivers equally
> & could easily include waters both above & below the first head of navigation
> & at any stage of flow
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> so the most liberal interpretation
> which now seems the most likely one
> would add a pair of crown waters tripoints just about everywhere a stream
> or pond crosses any provincial or territorial boundary
> & this amounts easily to hundreds of additional primary federative tripoints
> & a really unresolvable mess
> unless the canadian government publishes an official list or map of them
> which frankly i find hard to imagine
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> so my revised conclusion is that canada
> which begins by having 0 zero triprovincial points
> plus its obvious quartet of federative dry multipoints along the 60th parallel
> & about 3 dozen somewhat less obvious coastal tripoints
> trails off into a myriad of mostly obscure freshwater federative tripoints
> & is therefore probably just not susceptible to the kind of exhaustive
> finite analysis enjoyed by the usa & most other countries
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> & i realize now too that the same imponderability extends equally to the
> caus binational tripoints
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> we can easily point to the few all dry ones
> menhpq & the half dozen on the 49th parallel west of the red river
> & a couple of unnavigable wet ones i guess
> nhpqvt & akbcyt
> but we will probably never be able to account for all the wet ones
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> & thus unexpectedly both canada & caus
> for the same reason
> must remain by & large terra incognita
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