To all the Canadians...

Sorry, the last one in the state...

http://www.yahooey.com/angleschool/index.htm

 

Here's the story from Wikipedia.

Origin

The Treaty of Paris, concluded between the United States and Great Britain at the end of the American Revolutionary War, stated that the boundary between U.S. territory and the British possessions to the north would run "...through the Lake of the Woods to the most northwestern most point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi..." The parties did not suspect that the source of the Mississippi, Lake Itasca (then unknown to European explorers), was south of that point, and that thus the entire Mississippi was too far south to be intersected by a line running west from the Lake of the Woods. A factor in this mistake was the use of the Mitchell Map during the treaty negotiations; that map showed the Mississippi extending far to the north. In the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, the error was corrected by having the boundary run due south from the northwest point of the lake to the 49th parallel and then westward along it. When a survey team led by David Thompson finally located the northwestern most point of the lake and surveyed this north-south line, it was found to intersect other bays of the lake and therefore cut off a portion of U.S. territory, now known as the Northwest Angle.

 

The only way to get there is either by boat or through Canada...

 

Hey Nick, tell me a little more about Kenora... From searches on the web, it looks like a cool little town and would be about an 8 hour drive from here.

Makes me nervous though - driving that far into another country...

Guess I need to learn Canadian...

 

Yup and you have...

If that was directed to me those be the Canadian Rockies. If not.

Fuck it.

 

touche

 

You'll definatley have to brush up on you Canadian before you arrive. I believe Rosetta Stone has a learn to speak Canadian CD. Anyway, I would suggest coming up in the summer months. Kenora is what would be considered a "Summer Town". The population triples here in the summer months. If your into outdoor stuff their is endless things to do here. Fishing, camping, and just chilling at the lake would be the things to do. I am also sure you would want to do some exploring with that suped up rig of yours and we got stuff for that too.

 

I read on Wikipedia last night about the summer population boom... Also that the towns name used to be "Rat Portage"...

The Lake of the Woods looks really nice - especially at sunset. Lots of pictures of sunsets on Google Earth.

Curious, when is all the snow usually melted away and lakes unfrozen? And when do you start getting snow?

 

The snow is usually gone in early to mid April. The lakes should be open by mid may. If we have a cool spring the lakes could take longer to open up since the ice is really thick this year. Looking at the weather patterns moving in now, my guess is snow will be gone by the end of this month.

 

Taste my pimp hand!

 

tastes like bad beer and maple syrup, eh

 

I forgot your beer has to be clear and with an alcohol content of .05%.

And don't be dissing Maple syrup!

 

Bit of an old thread... You still in Kenora?

 

Nice,,, a thread full of win....