The Alaska frontier . Tlie BurlanJ ncNbarals LiiliC Monircal. Certified Df/m^Zaiids OfficeJan. /6^^ s. G\ n. L. Map published in Canadian Sessional Papers, No. 21. 88 THE ALASKA FRONTIER. of a map which showed the boundary crossing theSkoot River, are especially noteworthy evidenceagainst the Canadian demands. For the Skoot Riverdoes not come to tidewater at all, but flows intothe Stikine some distance from the sea. Again, in the case of Peter Martin in 1876, theBritish and the Canadian Governments recognizedthrough the settlement of that incident by the BritishForeign Office t
The Alaska frontier . Tlie BurlanJ ncNbarals LiiliC Monircal. Certified Df/m^Zaiids OfficeJan. /6^^ s. G\ n. L. Map published in Canadian Sessional Papers, No. 21. 88 THE ALASKA FRONTIER. of a map which showed the boundary crossing theSkoot River, are especially noteworthy evidenceagainst the Canadian demands. For the Skoot Riverdoes not come to tidewater at all, but flows intothe Stikine some distance from the sea. Again, in the case of Peter Martin in 1876, theBritish and the Canadian Governments recognizedthrough the settlement of that incident by the BritishForeign Office that on the Stikine River Canada didnot touch tide water. It was in 1876, while taking a prisoner namedPeter Martin, who was condemned in the Cassiar dis-trict of British Columbia for some act committed inCanadian territory, from the place where he was con-victed to the place where he was to be imprisoned,that Canadian constables crossed with the prisonerthe United States territory lying along the StikineRiver. They encamped with Martin at a point somethirteen miles up the river from its mouth. ThereMa
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