h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's interesting that North America gets wider as you go north. This means that when the revolutionaries pursued the royalists, there was no shortage of space for them to go. Things might have been very different if the continent narrowed and the Canadians were being hemmed in by the revolutionaries. They might have felt cornered and reacted by fighting back.

Very droll Mister Island.

You don't expect for a minute that I would believe
that someone as intelligent, educated and aware as
yourself would not realise that what you describe
is an illusion created by the presentation of maps
on a square linear grid with only a 2 dimensional
aspect ratio.

I refer you to the Mercator projection which gives
a more accurate impression of the land masses by
compensating for the spherical distortion as lines
of longitude come closer together. At 45 degrees
North (Nova Scotia) these lines are only half as
far apart as at the equator. At the North pole
there is no width at all.

http://www.answers.com/topic/map-projection

It is for this reason that Lindberg left New York
flying Northeast over Nova Scotia, Greenland and
Ireland before landing in Paris which I'm sure you
think of as being south of you. The Great Circle
Routes and all that.


More to the point perhaps is the fact that very few
white men had ventured west of Lake Eerie and the
population shift we are talking about all occurred
in the east along the roughly 1/4 of the east/west
measure of continental width - between Ontario and
Nova Scotia. NS is admittedly much farther east
than Boston owing to it being (wait for it) a peninsula.


There is a one hour time difference between Halifax and
Boston which is why the first Transatlantic cable came
ashore here. Messages were then relayed to New England.


~jwf~

Whereas Newfoundland, I believe, is a half-hour off everybody else.

It still shows up pretty damn' big on my globe, even allowing for Alaska.

Nice one, squigs

Indeed it is. And for the purposes of the essay in question
two additional points must be made. Some, not many but, some
United Empire Loyalists did retreat there, and, Newfoundland
remained a separate crown colony until 1949 when they finally
joined Canada. Cops there are still known as the RNC the Royal
Newfoundland Constabulary.

~jwf~

PS
A google image search of the RNC will show you that their
dress uniform is very like a British bobby with the same
style of helmet. I can't copy a link because the one I want
is https and the image is copywritten.

This online petition to officially adopt the sealskin cap
as their winter headwear is quite public:
http://www.change.org/petitions/adopt-seal-as-the-winter-headdress-of-the-royal-newfoundland-constabulary
Feel free to sign, they still need 400 signatures.
They only ask you state your reason for signing so be honest
- it's always the best policy - and tell them because it looks
cool and far sexier than the Mounties muskrat wintercaps.


~jwf~

Rod me old duck, fancy seeing you here.
Thanks for expressing your satisfaction.

~jwf~

'ello, 'ello, Here we go. What's all this then.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40083115@N05/5027597557/


~jwf~

Very attractive, that hat.

Moustache is too. Tell me that they are not required.