...After the Louisiana purchase it became necessary to establish the boundary line between British America and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. This was effected by a treaty in 1818, and the fortyninth parallel of latitude was continued west as...

...Majesty's dominions in America. By Article 2 the forty-ninth parallel, of north latitude was taken as the boundary between Canada and the United States...from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. This definition of the frontier has proved to be perfectly satisfactory ever since. Article 3 " tided...

...satisfactory dividing line. The United States suggested the extension of the forty-ninth parallel, the line between Canada and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rockies, but the British refused to agree. The following year the arrangement for joint occupation...

...demarkation, forming the southern boundary of the British territories and the northern boundary of the United States , from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. In case such a line would not run along the forty -ninth degree, but fall above or below it, then the...

...him for a post. But here it was in writing. He was to have a part in the task of marking the border between Canada and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. It was the beginning of his dream-come-true. Home George arrived home from England in early spring...

...trappers, so in Oregon the American emigrant farmers drove away the Canadian and English fur-traders. The boundary between Canada and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains was the fortyninth parallel. The United States, for some years, had been willing to extend that line...

...Boundary Commission, which had been constituted to fix the boundary line between British North America and the United States, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, and which had been carrying on its labours for about a year. From early boyhood Dawson had been keenly...

...Boundary Commission, which had been constituted to fix the boundary line between British North America and the United States, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky mountains, and which had been carrying on its labours for about a year. From early boyhood Dawson had been keenly...

...Boundary Commission, which had been constituted to fix the boundary line between British North America and the United States from the lake of the Woods to the Rocky mountains, and which had then been at work for over a year. There are but few corners of the earth which now appear...

...satisfactory dividing line. The United States suggested the extension of the forty-ninth parallel, the line between Canada and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rockies, but the British refused to agree. The following year the arrangement for joint occupation...