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George M. Dawson (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
eliminary survey was preferable to a formally constituted joint commission, and suggested that such a. survey would enable the two governments to establish a satisfactory basis for the delimitation of the boundary, and demonstrate whether the conditions of the convention of 1825 are applicable to the now more or less known features of the country. Early in 1888 several informal conferences were held in Washington between Prof. W. H. Dall, of the United States Geological Survey, and Dr. George M. Dawson, of Canada, for the purpose of discussing the boundary and elucidating. so far as the information then in existence enabled them to do, the questions which might be involved in it. The result of these conferences was communicated to Congress. A further step was taken in the convention between the United States and Great Britain of July 22, 1892, by which it was agreed that a coincident or joint survey should be made with a view to ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to t
Richard French (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
heir maritime and territorial differences by a convention signed at St. Petersburg on Feb. 28, 1825. which will hereafter be referred to as the convention of 1825. This convention defines, in Articles III. and IV., the boundary between Alaska and the British possessions as it exists to-day. The treaty of 1867, ceding Alaska to the United States, describes the eastern limits of the cession by incorporating the definition given in the convention of 1825. This convention was signed only in French, which is therefore the official text; but there accompanies it, in the British publications. an English translation, which in the main fairly reproduces the original. These texts, so far as they relate to the boundary, are as follows: III. La ligne de demarcation entre les Possessions des Hautes Parties Contractantes sur la Cote du Continent et les Hes de l'amerique Nord Ouest, sera tracee ainsi qu'il suit:--III. The line of demarcation between the Possessions of the High Contracting
Augusta Victoria (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
he headlands of some of the bays and inlets, especially in the Lynn Canal, and give Great Britain one or more ports on tide-water; and (2) that the coast whose winding are to be followed is not the shore of the mainland, but that of the adjacent islands, bordering on the ocean. On the sketch-map accompanying this article. the Canadian claim is given as shown on the Map of the Province of British Columbia, compiled by direction of Hon. G. B. Martin, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, Victoria. B. C., 1895. This claim would give Dyea, Skagway, Pyramid Harbor, and various other points, and a long stretch of tide-water, to Canada. The United States, on Map of South Eastern Alaska. the other hand, has maintained that the coast whose windings were to be followed was the coast of the mainland, the design of the convention being to give to Russia the control of the whole of the shore of the mainland, and of the islands, bays, gulfs, and inlets adjacent thereto. In other words, Rus
George Canning (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
to the Arctic Ocean through Bering Straits. It is not on our part, declared George Canning, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, essentially a negotiation hdrawal of this pretension, Great Britain proposed a settlement of limits. G. Canning to Stratford Canning, Dec. 8, 1824. The actual geographical features of the touthern boundary. In his instructions to Sir C. Bagot, of Jan. 15, 1824, Mr. George Canning, adverting to the fact that no limit was suggested by the Russian plenipois not carried too far inland. It might be limited to 10 leagues or less. G. Canning to Sir C. Bagot, July 12, 1824. Were there room for doubt as to what these p in case the boundary should follow their summit and not their seaward base. (G. Canning to Sir C. Bagot, July 24, 1824.) Both these phrases obviously referred to mouy that which we only suggested as a connection of their first proposition. G. Canning to S. Canning. Dec. 8. 1824. Accordingly, Mr. Stratford Canning, who had late
Meridien Greenwich (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
ontinent et les Hes de l'amerique Nord Ouest, sera tracee ainsi qu'il suit:--III. The line of demarcation between the Possessions of the High Contracting Parties upon the Coast of the Continent and the Islands of America to the North-West, shall be drawn in the following manner: A partir du Point le plus meridional de l'he dite Prince of Wales, lequel Point se trouve sous la parallele du 54me degre 40 minutes de latitude Nord, et entre le 131me et le 133me degre de longitude Ouest (Meridien de Greenwich), la dite ligne remontera au Nord le long de la passe dite Portland Channel, jusqu'au Point de la terre ferme ou elle atteint le 56me degre de latitude Nord: de ce dernier point la ligne de demarcation suirra la crete des montagnes situees parallelement à la Cote, jusqu'au point d'intersection du 141me degre de longitude Ouest (meme Meridien); et finalement du dit point d'intersection, la meme ligne meridienne du 141me degre formera, dans son prolongement jusqu‘à la mer Glaciale, la
Arrowsmith (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
to limits was made by Great Britain to Russia in the autumn of 1823. Sir Charles Bagot, then British ambassador at St. Petersburg, was instructed to propose a line drawn east and west along the 57th parallel of north latitude. He went somewhat further, and suggested that Great Britain would be satisfied to take Cross Sound, lying about the latitude of 57th 30″, as the boundary between the two powers on the coast; and a meridian line drawn from the head of Lynn Canal, as it is laid down in Arrowsmith's last map, . . . as the boundary in the interior of the continent. This suggestion was not accepted, and subsequently, acting under instructions, he proposed a line drawn through Chatham Straits to the head of Lynn Canal, thence northwest to the 140th degree of longitude west of Greenwich, and thence along that degree of longitude to the Polar Sea. The Russian plenipotentiaries rejected this proposal and submitted a counter-project. By the ukase of 1799, the Russian dominion was assu
Du Nord (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
lus meridional de l'he dite Prince of Wales, lequel Point se trouve sous la parallele du 54me degre 40 minutes de latitude Nord, et entre le 131me et le 133me degre de longitude Ouest (Meridien de Greenwich), la dite ligne remontera au Nord le long dNord le long de la passe dite Portland Channel, jusqu'au Point de la terre ferme ou elle atteint le 56me degre de latitude Nord: de ce dernier point la ligne de demarcation suirra la crete des montagnes situees parallelement à la Cote, jusqu'au point d'intersectioNord: de ce dernier point la ligne de demarcation suirra la crete des montagnes situees parallelement à la Cote, jusqu'au point d'intersection du 141me degre de longitude Ouest (meme Meridien); et finalement du dit point d'intersection, la meme ligne meridienne du 141me degre formera, dans son prolongement jusqu‘à la mer Glaciale, la limite enire les Possessions Russes et Britanniques sur Que partout ou la crete des montagnes qui s'etendent dans une direction parallele à Cote depuis le 56me degre de latitude Nord au point d'intersection du 141me degre de longitude Ouest, se trouverait à la distance de plus de dix lieues marines de l'
Newton C. Blanchard (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
whole mainland coast and interior country belonging to Russia, eastward and southward of an imaginary line drawn from Cape Spencer to Mount Fairweather. By an agreement between the Hudson Bay and Russian-American companies, which received the sanction of both governments, this strip of territory was exempted from molestation during the Crimean War. Sir George Simpson, Governor of Hudson Bay Territory and a director of Hudson Bay Company, in his account of a trip around the world (Lea & Blanchard. Philadelphia, 1847, Part 1, p. 124). referring to the lease. said: Russia, as the reader is of course aware, possesses on the mainland between lat. 54° 40″ and lat. 60° only a strip, never exceeding 30 miles in depth; and this strip, in the absence of such an arrangement as has just been mentioned (the aforesaid lease), renders the interior comparatively useless to England. As to the southern limit of the strip in question, a line through Portland Channel, as now maintained by the Un
Nesselrode (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
right freely to navigate the ocean and to fish and trade with the natives on unoccupied coasts. Russia met their protests with an offer of negotiation. This offer was accepted. In the negotiations which ensued, Russia was represented by Count Nesselrode, minister for foreign affairs, and M. Poletica. Great Britain was represented first by Sir Charles Bagot, and then by Stratford Canning; the United States by Henry Middleton. The United States and Great Britain at one time entertained the io the eastern boundary of the lisiere, they offered to extend it along the mountains which follow the sinuosities of the coast as far as Mount Elias. and then to run the line along the 140th meridian of longitude instead of the 139th. Said Count Nesselrode, in an instruction to Count Lieven, Russian ambassador at London. April 17, 1824: This proposal will assure to us merely a narrow strip of territory (lisiere) upon the coast itself, and will leave the English establishments all needfu
1873 AD (search for this): entry alaskan-boundary-the
. said: Russia, as the reader is of course aware, possesses on the mainland between lat. 54° 40″ and lat. 60° only a strip, never exceeding 30 miles in depth; and this strip, in the absence of such an arrangement as has just been mentioned (the aforesaid lease), renders the interior comparatively useless to England. As to the southern limit of the strip in question, a line through Portland Channel, as now maintained by the United States, continued to be the uncontested boundary till about 1873, when Canadian writers began to suggest that the line should run through Behm Canal, or by some other way than Portland Channel, (1) because, while the line is required by the treaty to ascend to the north from the southern-most point of Prince of Wales Island, it must first run to the east in order to enter Portland Channel, and (2) because the head of Portland Channel does not reach the 56th degree of north latitude. These suggestions, besides disregarding the historical and geographical e
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