The Alaska frontier . ledoniaand Selkirk, which abut against Alaska, are drawnprecisely where the Muscovite and the AmericanGovernments have always maintained the frontieris located. This semi-official map, therefore, showsthat three years after the assembling of the Anglo-American Joint High Commission, the Church ofEngland, through its representative, the ChurchMissionary Society, considered that the field of itsmissionary labors in Canada, extended only as farwest as the boundary claimed by the United States. At the Paris Exposition of 1878, the CanadianGovernment exhibited a map prepared t
The Alaska frontier . ledoniaand Selkirk, which abut against Alaska, are drawnprecisely where the Muscovite and the AmericanGovernments have always maintained the frontieris located. This semi-official map, therefore, showsthat three years after the assembling of the Anglo-American Joint High Commission, the Church ofEngland, through its representative, the ChurchMissionary Society, considered that the field of itsmissionary labors in Canada, extended only as farwest as the boundary claimed by the United States. At the Paris Exposition of 1878, the CanadianGovernment exhibited a map prepared the previousyear, showing the boundaries of the Dominion, whichreceived, on account of the excellency of its draftsman-ship, a first prize. On this map the frontier between Proceedings of the Church Missio?iary Society for Africa andthe East: One-Hundred-and-Second-Year, 1900-1901. LondonChurch Missionary House, Salisbury Square, 1901, NorthWest Canada & British Columbia. C. M. S. Report PI. 10.(Opposite page 499.). Map in the Church Missionary Society Proceedings, 1901, showing Dioceses in Canada. THE MAP No. 24. 146 THE ALASKA FRONTIER. Canada and Alaska was marked, it Is understood, inaccordance with the Russian and the United Statesideas of the boundary. This map hung thereafterfor a number of years in the ParHament Building atOttawa until it disappeared about 1886. While itis not possible at present to give a reproduction ofthis map, three others, more or less rare, are at hand,which show what the Canadian authorities thoughtwas the boundary the year immediately before theParis Exposition of 1878, and also six years after-wards, at the time General Cameron was beginningto formulate the myth that Canada has ever sincereiterated and gradually perfected. The copy of thefirst of these maps, which was published in 1877,belonged to the late Pierre Margry,^^ for many yearskeeper of the Archives of the Ministry of Marine atParis. The map is entitled : Map of the north westpart of C
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