Mapquest seems to love the Great Slave Lake! Or maybe they just want to move it to NS. Today I did a search for Pubnico, NS and it came up with that lake floating offshore SW. Regards, Eileen In a message dated 12/9/04 12:28:35 PM, [email protected] writes: > Well Joe, as you are aware, much of the west was explored by cousins of our > Scottish forbearers.  This is probably just a homage to the linkage. > > Merry Christmas to all. > > Regards, > Don MacFarlane > > See MacFarlane and related genealogies here: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maritime/Maritime_Mosaic/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Makowiec [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Antigonish] OT: Map oddity > > OK - here's the setup.  I read a newsgroup post from somebody in > Lorneville, Nova Scotia.  As you might guess, my ears perk up when NS is > mentioned; I didn't, however, recognize the placename.  So, what's a > rational geek to do?  Right - http://www.mapquest.com/ > > Lorneville didn't show up.  So, off to my bookmarks to see if we can't run > it down using a tourism site.  It worked; I found it and figured out that > it's on the North Shore.  So back to Mapquest to try a few nearby > names.  Nothing showed up until I got to Pugwash.  No surprise; half of the > North Shore didn't show up[1].  So I get to Pugwash, the map comes in, and > it turns out that Nova Scotia has relocated to the NorthWest Territories! > > Go to Mapquest, plug in Pugwash, NS, look at the results directly above the > star, and tell me I'm not going nuts. > > Obligatory Antigonish County reference: if you plug in Antigonish, you also > see this artifact, so it seems to be a north-shore-wide phenomenon. > > Regards > > > Joe > > [1] So you're asking by this point - why didn't I just reach under the desk > I was at, pull out a dead-tree-edition map, and look in the index? > A) If you have to ask... > B) If I had, I wouldn't have found this particular artifact. > > -- > Joe Makowiec can be reached at: > http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe > http://makowiec.org/  >