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ghYHZ:
There is no border depute between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia but a piece of NB has ended up on the NS side of the Missaguash River due to an 'Oxbow' in the river that was straightened.

I've heard of the oxbows along the Mississippi causing one states boundaries to be within the other...but the first time I'm aware of it here. Any other provinces with boundaries within the other?

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1964298820001

Alps:
TIL there's a third border crossing there, just north of 104. Dirt road with a Bailey bridge.

webfil:

--- Quote from: ghYHZ on October 23, 2021, 08:03:38 AM ---I've heard of the oxbows along the Mississippi causing one states boundaries to be within the other...but the first time I'm aware of it here. Any other provinces with boundaries within the other?
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I know of similar cases for international borders. The boundaries on Saint John and Saint Francis rivers between Québec and Maine have minor discrepancies due to meanders becoming oxbows, but Hall river between Québec and New Hampshire is quite something. The former borders were delimited in 1842 (Webster-Ashtonbury) while the latter is older (1783; Treaty of Paris), thus the greater shapeshift.

EDIT : I just recalled that rivers changing courses are a the very source of the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, along the Mura and the Dragonja.

cbeach40:
Well, there's always this one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_between_Quebec_and_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

Alps:

--- Quote from: cbeach40 on October 27, 2021, 03:27:00 PM ---Well, there's always this one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_between_Quebec_and_Newfoundland_and_Labrador



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Quebec isn't a sovereign nation so they just have to put up and shut up.

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