BORDER LINES.

MANY DECADES AGO, I ASKED myself how, if I could do so from scratch, I might draw the boundaries of Canada's provinces and territories. Both the federal and provincial governments disputed the watershed boundary. SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA AND MORE PROVINCIAL ENLARGEMENTS Given the echoes of the Hudson's Bay Company administration in Manitoba and the North, the four Prairie districts were the only genuinely novel entities that Ottawa had created. However, the following year, Spence joined Louis Riel's provisional government in the Red River Colony, and the name Manitoba became a favourite of the leader. [Extracted from the article]