Will Kürlich Kerl
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What happens if the Canadian-American border is at the 48th Parallel instead of the 49th parallel?
What happens if the Canadian-American border is at the 48th Parallel instead of the 49th parallel?
The 49th parallel wasnt random. It was an easier to survey border that approximated and replaced the Mississippi vs Hudson Bay watersheds.
Except it's based entirely on a misreading of the source of the Mississippi in the first place.
Except it's based entirely on a misreading of the source of the Mississippi in the first place.
You're possibly thinking about the faulty Mitchell Map used in the negotiations for the Treaty of Paris (1783) to define the US-GB (Rupert's Land) border between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods. That's the map that muddled things up and made determining the location of the border in that region difficult post-1818. That and a couple other border ambiguities were later resolved in the Webster–Ashburton Treaty (1842).