ahh then doug you have placed your grandparents right next to
one of the most mysterious lines on the face of the earth
the crazy stairstepping mbsk line
you can even see one of its stairsteps in your map link
right behind the house
& nobody knows why the federal government circa 1890 caused
this boundary to stagger its way north in such a peculiar way with
dozens of little jogs like yours
yet at highly irregular intervals
it is as if the survey crew just went off on a bender every so often
yet always in the same erratic direction
& not even the provincial surveyors societies have a clue about it
sure would like to know if anyone can figure that one out tho
but to come to the point of your question
i dont doubt there must be a bunch of these monuments all up &
down the line
but particularly at all the stairstep turnpoints
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray
<doug@d...> wrote:
>
> Great Pics, Mike.
>
> The pinkish one looks exactly like the marker I remember from
near my
> grandparents farm.
>
> That marker was located on Thunderhill. The MB-SK border
ran over the
> "mountain."
>
> Thunderhill is located just north of Highway 49 which runs from
Arran,
> Saskatchewan to Benito, Manitoba.
> (My Grandparents lived in the village of Kenville, MB).
>
> A map is here:
http://www.becquet.com/director/maps/Pelly.htm
>
> I wonder if its the same one? Or if there are a bunch of them
all up
> and down the line?
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Michael Kaufman wrote:
>
> > Doug -
> > Not sure where I found these, but ran across them
> > awhile back...
> > -Mike
> >
> > --- Doug Murray <doug@d...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > The link:
> > >
> > > http://www.gov.nf.ca/nfmuseum/images/
> > > bordersurveymarkerblancsablonjuly112002.jpg
> > >
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