In 1873 he was appointed geologist and botanist to Her Majesty's North American 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,... Bulletin of the Geological Society of America - Seite 479von Geological Society of America - 1902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1905 - 922 Seiten
...surgeon to the Royal Commission for the demarcation of the international boundary line between Canada and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, and at the close of the work received the thanks of her Majesty's government for the able manner in which... | |
| Benjamin Sulte, C. E. Fryer, Laurent-Olivier David - 1908 - 638 Seiten
...North American Boundary Commission for the demarcation of the International boundary between Canada and the United States, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, and served until the close of the work. He was charged with the entire organization and management of the... | |
| Henry Addington Bruce - 1909 - 304 Seiten
...disappointment. By .the convention of 1818 the forty-ninth parallel had been accepted as the boundary between British North America and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the base of the Rocky Mountains; but all attempts made by the United States to persuade the British... | |
| 1909 - 634 Seiten
...the question. By the terms of the Convention of London, October 20, 1818, the Northern boundary of the United States, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, was to be the 49th parallel, while the rights to navigate the Mississippi and to engage in Indian trade... | |
| 1909 - 630 Seiten
...the question. By the terms of the Convention of London, October 20, 1818, the Northern boundary of the United States, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, was to be the 49th parallel, while the rights to navigate the Mississippi and to engage in Indian trade... | |
| Isaac Joslin Cox - 1910 - 36 Seiten
...the question. By the terms of the Convention of London, October 20th, 1818, the northern boundary of the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains was to be the 49th parallel, while the rights to navigate the Mississippi and to engage in Indian trade... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 506 Seiten
...retained its former possessions. By the convention of 1818 they extended the boundary between Canada and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains along the forty-ninth parallel, leaving the disputed Oregon country open to each nation for a term... | |
| 1918 - 838 Seiten
...astronomer: b. Ontario, Ind., 12 Nov. 1843. hi 1873-75 he took part in the survey of the northern boundary of the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains; during the 20 years following he was professor of mathematics and astronomy at Lehigh University, and... | |
| Smith Burnham - 1920 - 730 Seiten
...been definitely determined. ,..i L nf, an ^ 1^18 we agreed with England that the northern boundary of the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains should be fixed at forty-nine degrees north latitude. But we also claimed that the country beyond the... | |
| Edward Channing - 1921 - 640 Seiten
...Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. This line had been adopted in 1818 as the boundary between Canada and the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. On the face of it, the proposition to extend this line westward to the Pacific 1 Smith's War with Mexico,... | |
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