# The four corners quadripoint of Canada: Anyone been there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583 "2011-09-25T20:04:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/21 "2011-09-26T05:57:54Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Jamie’s good. Saw him last week - he was going out to play hockey with the Newfoundland guys. Steve, Bill, and Sammy? Great guys. Tell Jamie to say hello for me! ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/22 "2011-09-26T17:58:07Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > “I got stabbed in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.” The sad thing is, being at the point of those 4 provinces…yeah, stabbing is imminent. Alas, my only claim to seeing anything like that is being in Lloyd at the AB/SK line. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/23 "2011-09-26T19:07:55Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Steve, Bill, and Sammy? Great guys. Tell Jamie to say hello for me! Let me know how my son-in-law Duncan is doing, okay? He tells my daughter and me that he’s fine, but maybe he opens up more to you guys. That’s Duncan from Quebec, m’kay? Not the one from PEI. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/24 "2011-09-26T19:15:50Z")
We have two Duncans? Gosh, that’s like a real country! ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/25 "2011-09-26T20:17:33Z")
Geez, it’s a good thing you specified. I was gonna say that Duncan can’t shut up–every time I see him he tells me about his job, his car, his house, his sister-in-law, her dad’s pontoon boat, you name it. Duncan from PEI has got a serious case of running-his-mouth-itis. He just hasn’t been the same since Gordon up and moved to Halifax. Hey, that reminds me, has anybody been up to the cottage lately? Is that one window still broken? And could somebody winterize it before it snows? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/26 "2011-09-26T20:19:00Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > We have two Duncans? Gosh, that’s like a real country! I named my new puppy Duncan as well. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/27 "2011-09-27T01:36:44Z")
> [@apollonia](#): > > Hey, that reminds me, has anybody been up to the cottage lately? Is that one window still broken? And could somebody winterize it before it snows? Got it in my calendar for Thanksgiving, and got Halifax Gordon and PEI Duncan to help. Shutters on, hydro off, we all know the drill. Any volunteers for opening it back up on May 24th? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/28 "2011-09-27T01:41:45Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Any volunteers for opening it back up on May 24th? I’ll help with that, but I won’t help plant tulips in October. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/29 "2011-09-27T03:03:33Z")
Say, how’s Maurice doing? Didn’t he marry that girl from Banff? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/30 "2011-09-27T03:29:01Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Got it in my calendar for Thanksgiving, and got Halifax Gordon and PEI Duncan to help. Shutters on, hydro off, we all know the drill. Any volunteers for opening it back up on May 24th? Bob from Toronto and I will be there - and this time we promise to clean up the dead spiders - not like last year! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/31 "2011-09-27T04:27:10Z")
[Relevant stuff](http://www.bjbsoftware.com/corners/pointdetail.php3?point=139) from the Degree Confluence people. [Hasbala Lake Lodge](http://www.hasbalalake.com/) homepage Just for the record, the quadripoint has actually been around since before World War I – it’s just that the northern two segments were merely two Districts (Mackenzie to the west, Keewatin to the east) of the Northwest Territories\*. - Uberpedant mode: Strictly speaking 1999 marked the end of the Northwest Territor **ies**. When Nunavut was created, the areas not included in it became the Northwest Territor **y**. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/32 "2011-09-27T05:28:45Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > - Uberpedant mode: Strictly speaking 1999 marked the end of the Northwest Territor **ies**. When Nunavut was created, the areas not included in it became the Northwest Territor **y**. I don’t think so. I’ve never heard this anyway, and the webpage of the [Government of the Northwest Territories](http://www.gov.nt.ca/) writes it in the plural. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/33 "2011-09-27T05:39:22Z")
The relelvant federal statute is still the [Northwest Territories Act](http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/N-27/page-1.html), which defines it as follows: > [@](#): > > “Territories” means the Northwest Territories, which comprise all that part of Canada north of the sixtieth parallel of north latitude and west of the boundary described in Schedule I to the Nunavut Act that is not within Yukon. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/34 "2011-09-27T12:02:32Z")
> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#): > > I don’t think so. I’ve never heard this anyway, and the webpage of the [Government of the Northwest Territories](http://www.gov.nt.ca/) writes it in the plural. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > The relelvant federal statute is still the [Northwest Territories Act](http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/N-27/page-1.html), which defines it as follows: To quote a great philosopher of our time, “I wuz misinfoimed!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/35 "2011-09-27T12:17:01Z")
When all four are full provinces, then you’ll have something. Otherwise there are plenty of places where four jurisdictions of some kind with straight line boundaries come together. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/36 "2011-09-27T12:26:57Z")
I’m pretty sure I saw Mantracker near there once. He was looking at a compass and scratching his head. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/37 "2011-09-27T12:34:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’d like to argue with you, but I know which road you’re talking about.🙂 > > We drove through the [longitudinal centre of Canada](http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM26XV) this summer on our vacation. It was very close to Winnipeg; if they have an attitude like they’re the centre of things, there’s a good reason for that. There really is nothing better than telling a Winnipeger that they’re from Central Canada. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/38 "2011-09-27T15:26:56Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > There really is nothing better than telling a Winnipeger that they’re from Central Canada. 😃 They must be; the Jets and Blue Bombers play in the EAST! ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/39 "2011-09-27T16:09:49Z")
How’d they get that monument way up there. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583/40 "2011-09-27T16:43:12Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > They must be; the Jets and Blue Bombers play in the EAST! You and I are now likely on a \*list \*somewhere. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583.md?page=3)