Northwest Angle

From the BBC:

"Should the US hand over Minnesota's Northwest Angle to Canada?"

There's something funny about watching a show and being able to understand all the British people on it (even those with Cockney and Scottish accents), but you have to turn on the subtitles to be able to understand the one American on it (although he did have a very thick Southern accent.)  The protrusion of land is due to a historic mapping mistake.   When the American Revolutionary War ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Britain and the US agreed on the new border based on a map maker's error about the source of the Mississippi River, which was used to help draw the boundary.  The boundary line was redrawn in 1818 to address the snafu, shaping the Northwest Angle. So far, the petition is just shy of 2,500 signatures, a far cry from the 100,000 signatures needed to get a response from the White House And at this point, the effort is being greeted with something of a shrug by Angleites.  Lisa Goulet, who owns Angle Outpost Resort with her family, told the BBC that while it's a fun story, when she came across the petition she "didn't really give it another thought".  She says the roughly 100 residents are on "absolutely nothing but friendly terms" with their Canadian neighbours - but she isn't about to add her signature to the petition.  "We understand it was a mistake, that it wasn't on purpose that the United States or that Minnesota was gifted this area, but we are blessed and so grateful for this area and we don't take it for granted," she said.  "So it's not like we're just willing to say 'Oh, right, you can have it back', because it's our home."  It's not the first time the threats of secession has been raised. Some residents brought up the idea in the late 1990s during some tension between Canada and the US over fishing regulations, though the two countries eventually came to an agreement.   Ms Goulet is happy her remote corner of the world is getting some attention and says she's is proud to hail from the Northwest Angle.  She calls it "a conversation starter".  "Even if you're not a fantastically interesting person, you come from an interesting place, you have something interesting to say."

^ It clearly is a mistake and very inconvenient for people living or visiting there, but to say it should be given to Canada simply because you have to enter Canada to get to it would mean we would have to give Alaska to Canada too. I don't see that happening. ^

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