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A little-known US-Canada border dispute
- nailer 7y agoThis article would be far better with a map, particularly for those outside the US and Canada. Here's the area anyway: Dixon Entrance https://maps.app.goo.gl/F3AnJf6yKKJJxhiV8 https://maps.app.goo.gl/F3AnJf6yKKJJxhiV8
- rwmj 7y agoThat makes so much more sense. I didn't realize before that Alaska / US territory stretches so far down the west coast of Canada.
- c3534l 7y agoA border war is in no way the same thing as a border dispute. Countries disagree or have ambigous borders all the time. That doesn't imply they declare war on eachother.
- dang 7y agoOk, we've replaced war with dispute in the title above. Good catch.
- onetimemanytime 7y ago...and thank God. But if it was an issue of sea access or some other vital issue, war we would have. This will be settled one day by cooler, impartial heads and both sides will accept. Looking at the map, it's amazing how far down Alaska goes...halfway to meeting US, mainland border.
- hermitdev 7y agoThe article mentioned 4 current territorial disputes between the US and Canada. Curiously, Wikipedia currently lists 5: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Canada_and_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Ca... Maybe the authors of the article didn't include the northwest passage dispute?
- elfexec 7y agoWhich is odd because the northwest passage dispute is easily the most important one and the other 4 are just petty local bickering. The northwest passage dispute will ultimately be about international trade and that's as serious as any dispute can be. Maybe the author thinks the northwest passage dispute won't come to a head until a few years or decades when the passage clears of ice and becomes easily navigable by ships year-round.
- gregmac 7y agoThere's a great CGP Grey video on the Canada-US border well worth watching if this interests you: https://youtu.be/qMkYlIA7mgw https://youtu.be/qMkYlIA7mgw
- ChrisMarshallNY 7y agoThat’s a great story. Reminds me of another unknown “border dispute” I read about, where a Canadian psychologist was permanently barred from the US, because he wrote about taking LSD in the 1960s: https://www.wired.com/2007/04/canadian-psycho/ https://www.wired.com/2007/04/canadian-psycho/
- OrgNet 7y agoA border dispute article that doesn't show you it on a map.
- decasteve 7y agoThe last war between the US and Canada (British North America) over the border between Maine and New Brunswick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War
- decasteve 7y ago> no one was killed, but two Canadian militiamen were injured by black bears prior to the diplomatic compromise.