Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Northwest Angle 2 enclaves and map
Date: Apr 11, 2001 @ 23:46
Author: David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 bjbutler@... wrote:
> Interestingly, the official Canadian topo map (15'x 30', Berry Point)
> covering the Northwest Angle clearly marks an Ontario-Minnesota
> boundary running up the middle of the inlet. Indeed, the
> words "Ontario" and "Minnesota" are overprinted on the lake!
>
> BJB
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., michael donner <m@d...> wrote:
> > thanx david
> > this is quite helpful in several ways
> > tho i think the wording you mention here from section 2 doesnt
> narrow the
> > definition of navigable waters at all
> > but rather broadens it to include all artificially constructed
> waterways
> > just as well as all the naturally navigable waters that have been
> reserved
> > to the crown in canadian law since the first articles of
> confederation in
> > 1867
> >
> > section 14 also
> > by saying vessel includes every description of ship or boat or
> watercraft
> > of any kind whatsoever etc
> > is especially inclusive & suggestive of the most liberal possible
> > definition of navigation & navigable waters
> >
> > & later sections reinforce these views further when they refer
> sweepingly to
> > 15 any navigable water over which parliament has jurisdiction &
> > 18 any thing cast ashore or stranded or left on any public property
> > belonging to her majesty in right of canada &
> > 22 any water any part of which is navigable or that flows into any
> > navigable water etc
> >
> > so all together it seems to me that the terms used in this law
> really do
> > provide a lot more support for the conclusion reached below
> >
> > m
> >
> >
> > >
> > >"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>
> > >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
> > >>
> > >> & 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >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.
> > >> >
> > >> >As martin said , this has been republished recently.
> > >> >
> > >> >BW
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> still trying to visualize what tripoints do remain now tho
> > >> so excuse me if i ramble on
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >> & 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> & i realize now too that the same imponderability extends
> equally to the
> > >> caus binational tripoints
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> & thus unexpectedly both canada & caus
> > >> for the same reason
> > >> must remain by & large terra incognita
> > >>
> > >> m
>
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