This article would be far better with a map, particularly for those outside the US and Canada.

Here's the area anyway: Dixon Entrance https://maps.app.goo.gl/F3AnJf6yKKJJxhiV8

That makes so much more sense. I didn't realize before that Alaska / US territory stretches so far down the west coast of Canada.

That’s a great story.

Reminds me of another unknown “border dispute” I read about, where a Canadian psychologist was permanently barred from the US, because he wrote about taking LSD in the 1960s: https://www.wired.com/2007/04/canadian-psycho/

There's a great CGP Grey video on the Canada-US border well worth watching if this interests you: https://youtu.be/qMkYlIA7mgw

A border dispute article that doesn't show you it on a map.

The article mentioned 4 current territorial disputes between the US and Canada. Curiously, Wikipedia currently lists 5: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Ca...

Maybe the authors of the article didn't include the northwest passage dispute?

Which is odd because the northwest passage dispute is easily the most important one and the other 4 are just petty local bickering. The northwest passage dispute will ultimately be about international trade and that's as serious as any dispute can be. Maybe the author thinks the northwest passage dispute won't come to a head until a few years or decades when the passage clears of ice and becomes easily navigable by ships year-round.

The last war between the US and Canada (British North America) over the border between Maine and New Brunswick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War

> no one was killed, but two Canadian militiamen were injured by black bears prior to the diplomatic compromise.

A border war is in no way the same thing as a border dispute. Countries disagree or have ambigous borders all the time. That doesn't imply they declare war on eachother.

Ok, we've replaced war with dispute in the title above. Good catch.