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First Meridian West 
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- 1963 WHAT IS THE FIRST MERIDIAN? This is the basic north-south line from which lands are surveyed in the prairie provinces. It is at 97 degrees 27 minutes west, just a few miles west of Winnipeg. From this line townships are surveyed and numbered east to the second initial meridian, [e]ast, at 94 degrees west, just east of the Lake of the Woods, and west to the second initial meridian west, at 102 degrees west, not far west of the Manitoba-Saskatchewan boundary. Here township numbers begin again then again at the third meridian west (the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary), at the fifth meridian west, near Calgary, and at the sext meridian west near Jasper.
- 1963 WHAT IS THE FIRST MERIDIAN? This is the basic north-south line from which lands are surveyed in the prairie provinces. It is at 97 degrees 27 minutes west, just a few miles west of Winnipeg. From this line townships are surveyed and numbered east to the second initial meridian, [e]ast, at 94 degrees west, just east of the Lake of the Woods, and west to the second initial meridian west, at 102 degrees west, not far west of the Manitoba-Saskatchewan boundary. Here township numbers begin again then again at the third meridian west (the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary), at the fifth meridian west, near Calgary, and at the sext meridian west near Jasper.