Subject: first try at a complete punctoscopy of canada<br/>
Date: Apr 15, 2001 @ 14:46<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-397241383">assuming the federal waters territory is real & includes all canadian<br/>
territorial seas & estuaries as far as the mean low tide line<br/>
& also assuming there are no provincial territorial seas<br/>
& also that there are no homoterritorial territorial seas off yt nw & nu<br/>
& finally also assuming there is no longer any nicholson internal federal<br/>
waters territory at all<br/>
<br/>
  an at least quintuply risky proposition<br/>
    but the best available guess for now imo<br/>
      while still alert for any better data or truth<br/>
<br/>
the following would  then  appear to be the most probable multipoints<br/>
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<br/>
<br/>
1<br/>
primary or world class<br/>
a  multinational<br/>
     0 tri country points<br/>
b  cosmofederative  with everyones land  aka el<br/>
     4 caelus tripoints  possibly all in dispute<br/>
       as reported in message 2066<br/>
     2 caelfr tripoints off st pierre & miquelon respectively<br/>
     4 cadkel tripoints off greenland<br/>
       1 in lower kennedy channel<br/>
       2 in nares strait<br/>
       1 in upper robeson channel<br/>
     1 caelru half hearted renegade sesquinational quadripoint<br/>
       aka the north pole<br/>
totalling 10 or 11 points & no known monuments<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
2<br/>
secondary or second order  as reported in message 2059<br/>
a  interfederative or international<br/>
   caus boundary<br/>
     18 continental  of which probably 8 are monumental<br/>
      8 federal waters<br/>
      4 state limits  possibly all in dispute<br/>
   cadk boundary<br/>
      0<br/>
   cafr boundary<br/>
      conceivably 1 between st pierre & miquelon<br/>
b  internal<br/>
      0 triprovincial<br/>
      4 mixed provincial territorial  incl the quadripoint  all monumental<br/>
     36 mixed with federal waters<br/>
totalling 70 or 71 additional points<br/>
<br/>
& thus producing a most probable grand total of 80 major canadians of all types<br/>
including probably only a dozen monumental points<br/>
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<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
3<br/>
tertiary or third order or multimunicipal points<br/>
& beyond<br/>
aka the minors<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://vzone.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/states/county.htm">http://vzone.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/states/county.htm</a><br/>
summarizes the types & numbers of municipalities by province & territory<br/>
& is a nice first try at a complete areoscopy under difficult conditions<br/>
  with pq sk on & nf the ranking numerical leaders<br/>
amounting in all to more than 3800 highly diverse divisional &<br/>
subdivisional entities  which include<br/>
  counties<br/>
  cities<br/>
  towns<br/>
  townships<br/>
  unified townships<br/>
  parishes<br/>
  districts<br/>
  district municipalities<br/>
  regional municipalities<br/>
  regional county municipalities  rcm  aha  mrc<br/>
  rural municipalities<br/>
  villages<br/>
  communities<br/>
  settlements<br/>
  hamlets<br/>
  & a borough  or was that a burro<br/>
all of which together must produce at least many hundreds if not chiliads<br/>
of minor multipoints<br/>
  even without considering their subdivisions<br/>
tho  given their great diversity  probably only a few hundred homogeneous<br/>
multipoints at the highest levels<br/>
<br/>
monumentation likely<br/>
but totally unknown territory<br/>
<br/>
several apparent quadripoints in ns & pq at least  & probably elsewhere<br/>
which could thus conceivably add some minors to the majors<br/>
but that appears to be about it<br/>
<br/>
happy day<br/>
max</div>