Grant Stoddard profiles The Lost Canadians for The Walrus
Back in May, Grant Stoddard had an idea for a feature about the “cartographical oversight” resulting from the 1846 Treaty of Oregon that left a 302-square-kilometre slice of the United States landlocked north of Minnesota, surrounded by Ontario, Manitoba and water. A few months later, the agency had sold Grant’s pitch about the Northwest Angle, Minnesota, and its flirtation with secession from the Union to join Canada, to The Walrus. His story has just hit the stands in the January/February issue.
