The San Juan Water Boundary Question / James O. McCabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCabe, James O., Author.

Series:

Canadian studies in history and government ; 5.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Northwest boundary of the United States.

Canada--Boundaries.

Canada.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume describes the origins, major parties concerned with, political complications in the Americas and Europe of, and negotiations that led to the resolution of the San Juan Water Boundary dispute. McCabe gives his study a broad setting and the result is a scholarly monograph, broadly interpreted and clearly written. This work is grounded upon British sources, the Hudson's Bay Company records, territorial papers of Washington, and State Department notes and dispatches.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Origin and Earliest Stages of a Dispute

2. The Water Boundary Commission

3. A British Proposition

4. The Hamey Episode: 1859-60

5. Hamey Retires from the Scene

6. Diplomatic Negotiations: 1859-61

7. Progress in the Post-Civil War Period

8. Canadian-American Problems

9. European Complications

10. Negotiations at Washington: 1871

11. The Award of 1871

12. The Middle Channel

Appendixes

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Notes:

"Reprinted 2018"-- Title page verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8267-6

OCLC:

1129172483