The Arctic Watershed

The Arctic Watershed (HM20F7)

Location: Raith, Ontario P0T Thunder Bay District
Country: Canada
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N 48° 49.099', W 89° 55.177'

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North of this watershed all flowing water eventually reaches Hudson Bay, while south of it all watercourses form part of the Great Lakes drainage system. The height of land follows an erratic course of some 1,400 miles across Ontario, ranging from 20 to 175 miles north of Lakes Huron and Superior. This watershed was declared the inland boundary of the tract surrendered to the Crown by Ojibwa Indians in the Robinson Superior Treaties of 1850. It was also widely considered to be the southern limit of Rupert's Land, the vast, ill-defined Hudson's Bay Company territory transferred to Canada in 1870, and it figured prominently in the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute of 1883-4.
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HM NumberHM20F7
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Placed ByArchaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario
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Date Added Friday, August 4th, 2017 at 4:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16U E 285688 N 5411370
Decimal Degrees48.81831667, -89.91961667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 48° 49.099', W 89° 55.177'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds48° 49' 5.9399999999998" N, 89° 55' 10.62" W
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Closest Postal AddressAt or near ON-17, Raith Ontario P0T, CA
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