RE: [Paddlewise] US-Canada Border

My eyes were glazed after I wrote the previous post -- and maybe during.

Chuck Holst

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Hawkins [mailto:jhawkins_at_cisco.com]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 3:32 PM
To: Chuck Holst; 'paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net'
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] US-Canada Border


>The 49th parallel was established as the border west from the
>Northwest Angle only after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and some later
>disputes about the border farther west in the Oregon Territory. 
>Chuck Holst

Gosh Chuck,
You glazed over the whole exciting "Pig War".  This was big stuff -- more
relevant to U.S. history and Canadian history than, say, World War I.  And
the only unfortunate victims of the war were some farm animals who without a
doubt would not have survived long anyhow.  Mishandled, this incident might
have resulted in a Canada with no West Coast or an ugly third war between
Britain and the USA.
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