Talk:Territorial evolution of Canada

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[edit] Category:Territorial evolution

I have added this category. I am not sure about the naming but I like Golbez's work and I think eventually every country should have a page like this. Does this seem like a good category? Feel free to tweak and rename but I think we need something. gren グレン 01:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I think it'd be neat to have for a lot of things. In fact, I got a request some time ago to do something similiar for Wisconsin's counties. :) --Golbez 02:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Legend

Nice job, only thing that's missing is a legend, since I read your similar article dealing with the US first, I knew the colours, but it wouldn't hurt to put the same legend on these maps.

I'm amazed at what you've done with these projects, I'm sure someday we'll have "Territorial evolution of the Maldives" or some other equally obscure country, soon! --Canuckguy 03:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I made the Canada ones first, but published the USA ones second, and I had more input on those, since it was such a large project. I'll get back to doing that for the Canadian ones. :) --Golbez 03:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
k it has a legend :) --Golbez 10:00, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Distinction between Province and Territory

This may seem like a stupid request, but I often wondered what the difference is between a province and a territory. Is it possible to include more info in this wonderful history of Canada's development to include a definition of these terms for designated areas, and what - if any - political difference there is today between them? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.106.196.31 (talk) 15:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC).

That's probably better handled in the Provinces and territories of Canada article, but as far as I know, it's mainly a matter of governance; the provinces are self-governed and have certain inherent rights, whereas the territories have only those rights given directly from Ottawa. --Golbez 16:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sometime in 1874

It looks like the date of the agreement on the 1874 Ontario boundary was June 26. [1] --Cam 15:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] manitoba-ontario dispute?

says it existed but provides no cite or link to an article with more details. --24.252.52.108 06:03, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

This was the first of these I completed so the referencing is sub-par, but all of the changes are documented on the Atlas of Canada site linked at the end; the 1881 map on that site mentions the dispute. --Golbez 06:05, 1 September 2007 (UTC)