Item 110917 - Bowen & Co. United States and British possessions map, British Columbia, 1846
- Item 110917 - Bowen & Co. United States and British possessions map, British Columbia, 1846
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- Item 110917
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Image Info Outlining the agreed-upon boundary between the United States and Canada, the map's full title is "Map showing the line of boundary between the United States & British possessions from the point where the 49th parallel of north latitude strikes the Western Coast of the continent "to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island and thence Southerly through the middle of the said channel&c. to Fuca's Straits, in accordance with the treaty of June 15th, 1846" accordance with Treaty of June 15th, 1846."
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This map is part of a larger archive, the Thomas Barclay collection (Coll. 26), related to the drawing of the Northeast boundary between British Canada and the United States.
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