Subject: Re: Book
Date: Sep 07, 2000 @ 19:35
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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> Where did you manage to get a copy of Nicholson, Norman L. The
>Boundaries of Canada, Its Provinces, and Its Territories. Ottawa: Queen's
>Printer, 1964? I would like to get one for myself. Regards, BJB

no i only got an official photocopy of the 1954 edition
& wonder if your query after 1964 wasnt really doing double duty

because if you do know of anything on this specific work or entire topic
later than 1954 i would beg you to feed my interest too


but i am able & would be glad first of all to offer you or anyone else my
own copy by mail for a few weeks during which time you might easily read it
& hand copy any maps etc because the queen wont let just anyone photocopy it

secondly anyone can for the feeble price of 39 & a half canadian simoleons
or loonies as they are called there locally
order their own handcut copy directly from her majestys own royal service

for the original is long out of print & far more valuable than its cover
price of 75 cents

but just call 613 996 1604
expect lovely claude
& have your credit card ready

& i might well just leave it there because a word to the wise is sufficient
& this is an awesome book

but since i had already earmarked it for group report & since i also know
at least some of your interest in this area
i would like to say a few things right off & will return later

1
the book does not answer or even mention the mystery of the manitoba
saskatchewan stepstair boundary

2
this was my only disappointment
but really it only redoubles & prolongs that particularly dizzy bit of fun
for otherwise the book equals nay surpasses bus&ss in every way

3
your brilliant surmise about the north pole being a unique binational point
is substantially confirmed by the book
at least from some canadian perspectives since 1907
for i dont think the subsequent claim or view of russia was ever in doubt
but i also think the more technically accurate term for this point might be
immanent or fantastic sesquinational
since canada herself sometimes dissociates herself from it
not to mention the doubting world community at large
led by third & fourth interested parties norway & the united states
but with fifth party denmark possibly still yet to be heard from

4
my own ideas about the canadian federal or crown maritime territory are not
only completely sustained but even unexpectedly promoted to include all
fresh navigable waters too

5
for me the funniest part of the book was when quebec begged the federal
government in 1907 to extend her own provincial territory northward because
the indians from up there kept coming south to hunt & started forest fires
& other mischief such as the destruction of wildlife & then couldnt be
chased & made to pay for all this havoc after they returned home back north

so the federal government of course agreed
& that is why quebec reaches all the way to hudson strait & farther north
than all the other provinces til this day

6
our visits to crnbnsn & crnbnss & crnfqcs are confirmed class c or better

7
another cool part is the story of how the hudson bay end of the oblique
manitoba ontario boundary was pegged to the longitude of the distant
confluence of the ohio & mississippi rivers at cairo illinois deep within
the united states

that is a surprise match for how the western boundary of new york with
pennsylvania was trued up at dry pan by our hero andrew ellicott with the
distant westernmost point of lake ontario at hamilton ontario deep within
canadian territory


but i will return to this book & to ellicotts dry pan as soon as i can