Subject: Re: worlds most perverse boundaries<br/>
Date: Oct 17, 2002 @ 07:30<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-619306712">& this could be the metis coming back into focus now<br/>
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notice how the man on top of the monument is still listing a little <br/>
to port<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@o...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; &gt; according to the saskatchewan land surveyors association<br/>
&gt; &gt; nobody knows why the original manitoba west line of the <br/>
&gt; 1880s<br/>
&gt; &gt; which has become the contemporary mbsk boundary<br/>
&gt; &gt; was produced in the peculiar stepstair configuration that is <br/>
has<br/>
&gt; &gt; & which is probably a familiar conundrum to most map <br/>
gazers<br/>
&gt; &gt; running as it does first northward from the american border <br/>
&gt; &gt; then zigging inexplicably westward a bit <br/>
&gt; &gt; then zagging to the north again <br/>
&gt; &gt; then west<br/>
&gt; &gt; then north<br/>
&gt; &gt; etc etc etc<br/>
&gt; &gt; for about 11 zigzags in all if i recall correctly<br/>
&gt; &gt; rather than in a single straight due north line<br/>
<br/>
&gt; ok i can tell everybody gives up<br/>
&gt; so  my guess about the 1881 mbsk enigma<br/>
&gt; is that the survey team was likely to have comprised at least a <br/>
&gt; few of those wild & crazy manitoba expansionists <br/>
&gt; known as the metis<br/>
&gt; a mixed blood people whom the crees also called by the name<br/>
&gt; their own boss<br/>
&gt; or<br/>
&gt; the people who own themselves<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; & tho commissioned to run the line only due north<br/>
&gt; they must have gotten drunk periodically<br/>
&gt; most likely once every week on payday <br/>
&gt; judging from the looks of the fairly regular offsets<br/>
&gt; when they couldnt resist an occasional freelancing to the west<br/>
&gt; in the name of a greater manitoba<br/>
&gt; nor could they be resisted by any of the non meti <br/>
commissioners<br/>
&gt; acting on behalf of the federal government<br/>
&gt; until everyone sobered up the following morning<br/>
&gt; at which point the line could then be expected to resume its <br/>
&gt; properly northward progression </span></blockquote></div>