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Title: Canada under British rule, 1760-1900
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bourinot, John George, Sir, 1837-1902
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Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n referring to the commercial policy of the Laurier govern-ment, reciprocity was no longer the all-important question tobe discussed, though the commissioners were ^desirous ofmaking fiscal arrangements with respect to lumber, coal, andsome other Canadian products for which there is an increasingdemand in the markets of the United States. The long andearnest discussions of the commission on the various questionsbefore them were, however, abruptly terminated by the impossi-bility of reaching a satisfactory conclusion with respect to thebest means of adjusting the vexed question of the Alaskaboundary, which had become of great international import inconsequence of the discovery of gold in the territory of Alaskaand the district of Yukon in Canada. The dispute between Great Britain and the United Stateshas arisen as to the interpretation to be given to the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1825, which was made forty-two years beforeRussia sold her territorial rights in Alaska to the United States,
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125 ^S ■—■^ CAMB. UNIV. PRESS Map of British Columbia and Yukon District showing DISPUTED boundary BETWEEN Canada and the United States. 7^n face 4). •511 X.) Relations with the United States, 311 that sale being subject of course to the conditions of the treatyin question. Under the third article of this treaty^—the govern-ing clause of the contract between England and Russia—theboundary line between Canada and Alaska commences at thesouth end of Prince of Wales Island, thence runs north throughPortland Channel to the fifty-sixth degree of north latitude,thence follows the summit of the mountains situated parallelto the coast of the continent, to one hundred and forty-one westlongitude and thence to the frozen ocean. That part of the linebetween fifty-six north latitude and one hundred and forty-onewest longitude is where the main dispute arises. Great Britainon behalf of Canada contends that, by following the summitsof the mountains between these two points, the true bou

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