 A petition has been started to get the U.S. government to give the northwest angle of Minnesota back to Canada. The northwest angle is home to about 120 people and juts out of the northern of northern Minnesota but are surrounded by the lake of the woods and Canadian territory. It is the only place in the United States outside of Alaska that is north of the 49th Parallel. The angle was a direct result of a surveying error made in 1755. Currently the petition only has 794 signatures and needs 100,000 signatures by January 29th to get a response from the White House. Back in 1998 U.S. Representative Colin Peterson introduced a bill to allow the northwest angle to secede from the U.S. and become part of Canada.