Re: Long-span Railroad bridges across the Mississippi and other connecting rivers

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Les Brown wrote:

> Mississippi drains part of Canada as well and the OP did not mention US
> practice specifically), 

Well, actually the Mississippi heads in northern Minnesota. There
*is* a very small area in Canada that winds up flowing (via the
Missouri) to the Mississippi. This is along such rivers as the
Milk, Frenchman, & Poplar in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan,
the rivers in question flowing into Montana, but IIRC never from more 
than about 30-40 miles north of the border and mostly less than that.

Actually there is a far larger area of the USA draining into Lake
Winnipeg and Hudsons Bay than there is of Canada draining into the
Mississippi. Or to put it another way, the US took the Brits to
the cleaners when the border from Lake of the Woods to the
Rocky mts was set by treaty (1818).

Hank

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