When I was birding at Churchill, Manitoba, several times in the early
1980s, the conventional wisdom among birders, including local professional
guides, was that the waters of Hudson's Bay were all part of the Northwest
Teritories, and I managed to see 28 species on or over the water. If I
accept the idea that there are parts of Canada that are part of no
Province or Territory, I will have to reduce my Nunavut life bird list
from 28 to 0.
I am certain that the situation is different along the Arctic and Hudson
Bay coast than it is along the Pacific coast. Along Hudson's Bay, the
Provinces definitely stop at the mean low water mark, and all the islands
were part of the Northwest Territories now Nunavut. Whereas along the
Pacific and Atlantic coasts, offshore islands belong to the adjacent
Provinces.
David
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, michael donner wrote:
> great question david
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> answer follows below
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> >On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, michael donner wrote:
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> >> but following the nicholson information previously culled
> >> i would summarize the major domestic multipoints as follows
> >>
> >> 0 multiprovincial points
> >> 4 mixed status multipoints all on the 60th parallel
> >> 10 mixed status coastal federal waters multipoints well scattered
> >> 26 multiterritorial coastal federal waters points all arctic
> >>
> >> 40 total legally real primary subdivisional multipoints
> >
> >Michael,
> >At the northern end of Labrador lies Killinek Island. The eastern half of
> >that island is part of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador; the
> >western half is now part of Nunavut. On the very nearby mainland, the
> >eastern half of the peninsula is still part of the Province of
> >Newfoundland and Labrador, but the western half is part of the Province of
> >Quebec.
> >
> >If the ocean around there is not part of any province or territory then
> >there must be two FEDOCcean-NF-NU points each side of the island an a
> >FEDOCcean-NF-PQ on the mainland. But if the provinces extend over the
> >ocean there would be one NF-NU-PQ point.
> >
> >How did you count those?
> >
> >David
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> i counted them as 3 of the 10 mixed status coastal federal waters tripoints
> because i have not found any evidence anywhere of any province or territory
> extending offshore beyond the low tide line
> & also because i have found specific statements indicating that both
> nunavut territory & quebec province do not include offshore waters anywhere
> & also because nicholson says any newfoundland territorial waters passed to
> the control of the government of canada when nf joined in 1949
> & indeed i believe not only these 3 but all 10 of the tripoints in this
> category are probably legally fixed where the interprovincial or provincial
> territorial boundaries meet the low tide line
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> m
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> incidentally the first & second photos at
> http://www.wright-photo.com/northlabradorcoast1.htm
> may include the canfnun & canfpqn tripoints
> at cape chidley & cape labrador respectively
> tho i am not positive about these details
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> & the other 7 tripoints in this subclass of 10 are
> canfpqs canbnsn canbnss canbpq caonpq cambon & cambnu
> as you may have deduced
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