Canada and the United States share a 5,000 mile border that includes over a hundred rivers and lakes, including four of the five Great Lakes (Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario; Lake Michigan is entirely within US jurisdiction, although it is really the same hydrologic body as Lake Huron). The US and Canada have a long history dating back to the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty of cooperatively managing and protecting their shared waters. Historically, the... Read more →