Subject: canfqc on labrador quebec coast class b<br/>
Date: May 31, 2003 @ 02:49<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@hotmail.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1416669578">the attached pic needs some help<br/>
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we are at the foot of the cliff now<br/>
pretty much due south but also just a few meters west of where doug found <br/>
his vertical quebec datum on the shoulder of the coastal highway probably <br/>
some short distance into labrador<br/>
<br/>
& we are precisely at the eastern head of blanc sablon bay<br/>
where first a pole was planted on the beach<br/>
& next the camera aimed due south thru the pole<br/>
while also centered on this the legal nominal dividing line<br/>
between the distinct province of quebec & the province of newfoundland & <br/>
labrador<br/>
<br/>
finally the trypointer in the pic<br/>
who had just been turned on his ear by the unexpected & complete absence of <br/>
any official demarcation<br/>
is cooling his heels in the surf while waiting for the ebbtide to finally <br/>
reveal the truest available tripoint position<br/>
just where these 2 provinces legally end at the most protruding tip of dry <br/>
land at low tide<br/>
& the canadian entirely federal maritime territory legally begins<br/>
<br/>
about this nfqc boundary & the defining ledge of rock in the photo<br/>
as i learned only later<br/>
nicholson said in the boundaries of the canadian confederation 1979 as <br/>
follows<br/>
<br/>
the longest interprovincial boundary that remains to be demarcated is that <br/>
between quebec & newfoundland<br/>
<br/>
this is mainly because the delimitation was a matter of doubt until 1927<br/>
<br/>
even the initial point of the land boundary between the 2 provinces at blanc <br/>
sablon has never been marked<br/>
<br/>
as one mp described it in 1964<br/>
when i was in blanc sablon<br/>
the terminal point of the quebec labrador coast<br/>
i was quite astonished to see an ordinary rock<br/>
having no inscription<br/>
thrown there haphazardly as it were<br/>
indicating the frontier between the 2 provinces<br/>
<br/>
end quote<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
actually this tripoint should be called canfqcs rather than just canfqc<br/>
since it has a northerly counterpart too<br/>
which is to say a matching canfqcn tripoint<br/>
way up on ungava bay near killineq island nunavut<br/>
if that isnt too confusing<br/>
<br/>
indeed canada has many such replicated tripoints & even a set of most <br/>
extreme multiples along the highly amphibious nunavut nwt border in the far <br/>
north<br/>
but that is a different & much longer story<br/>
<br/>
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