Canada still has reeves!!!?!?!? I thought that term was completely obsolete. Do they have beedles too?
South of the border the US still has plenty of shire-reeves though, though no shires!
South of the border the US still has plenty of shire-reeves though, though no shires!
Jokes aside, I graduated from Concordia University in Montreal and feel quite ironic that the Troitsky Bridge Building Competition is a thing while we seem to suck at building real bridges.
Montreal has its fair share of bad bridges. IIRC, the Champlain Bridge was touted as not requiring salt for de-icing in winter; it was never designed to protect against salt, yet it was salted every winter. The concrete is so damaged that a new bridge had to be built to replace it (which should complete this year, I haven't been back to Montreal in a long time so I don't know what it looks like now).
At the other extreme: in Massachusetts their primary function is to provide a favor for some someone the governor owes a favor.
> Indeed that's their primary function in California.
I think that depends on the county and the degree and population of unincorporated land; running the local detention and corrections system is arguably a more important role in much of California (certainly so in SF, where the City and County are coextensive so that there is no unincorporated land to police.)