Northwest Angle (Minneapolis, Red Lake: casino, places to live, versus)

[PostSecularist]

Does anyone here live in the Angle Township? How do you like it?

[GBCommenter]

I do not, but would be interested to see if anyone from Angle responds. Talk about what appears to be a remote local...a destination that is still the US but to reach it by land seems to require literally a passport since you have to go into Canada to cross back to Angle and the US. Admittedly, you could go by water, but differently story.

[Green Onions]

Originally Posted by GBCommenter

I do not, but would be interested to see if anyone from Angle responds. Talk about what appears to be a remote local...a destination that is still the US but to reach it by land seems to require literally a passport since you have to go into Canada to cross back to Angle and the US. Admittedly, you could go by water, but differently story.

Much like Point Roberts, Washington, which has a somewhat larger population than the Angle (1300+, versus ~150 for the Angle):


Ah, the perils of creating borders without actually finding out what the geography is out there...

Due to the small population of the Angle, I highly doubt any Anglians (or whatever they're called!) will see this thread.

[Ghengis]

Originally Posted by Green Onions

Much like Point Roberts, Washington, which has a somewhat larger population than the Angle (1300+, versus ~150 for the Angle):


Ah, the perils of creating borders without actually finding out what the geography is out there...

Due to the small population of the Angle, I highly doubt any Anglians (or whatever they're called!) will see this thread.

pretty sure they're probably all mostly Anglers

[iNviNciBL3]

Most of the Northwest Angle is part of the Red Lake Indian Reservation. You can also drive there in the Winter on an Ice road

[Clifford63]

Originally Posted by Green Onions

Ah, the perils of creating borders without actually finding out what the geography is out there...

Wiki describes it as this:

The Treaty of Paris, concluded between the United States and Great Britain at the end of the American Revolutionary War, stated that the boundary between U.S. territory and the British possessions to the north would run "...through the Lake of the Woods to the northwestern most point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi..."
The parties did not suspect that the source of the Mississippi, Lake Itasca (then unknown to European explorers), was south of that point, and that thus the entire Mississippi was too far south to be intersected by a line running west from the Lake of the Woods. A factor in this mistake was the use of the Mitchell Map during the treaty negotiations; that map showed the Mississippi extending far to the north. In the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, the error was corrected by having the boundary run directly from the northwest point of the lake to the 49th parallel and then westward along it.
When a survey team led by David Thompson finally located the northwesternmost point of the lake and surveyed this north-south line, it was found to intersect other bays of the lake and therefore form the boundary of a section of U.S. territory to its east, now known as the Northwest Angle.

[moving123456]

It has one of the few border checkpoints that is on the "honor system". You are supposed to stop at a little shack to call U.S. or Canadian Customs on a video phone for permission to cross the border.

[Dr.drew]

Maybe the Red Lake Indians could open up a little casino up there. haha

[rzzz]

Only about 100 people actually live there.
I grew up in that area when I was in elementary and junior high.
It mostly sucks unless you love fishing and hockey and being poor.
If you like fishing, there are better places to live, like Miami.

[Dr.drew]

Originally Posted by rzzz

Only about 100 people actually live there.
I grew up in that area when I was in elementary and junior high.
It mostly sucks unless you love fishing and hockey and being poor.
If you like fishing, there are better places to live, like Miami.

You described the whole northern half of Minnesota just there. The best part of Minnesota is downtown Minneapolis.