The Alaska frontier . 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 Canada * * * by Thomas Devine * * *By order of the Hon. Joseph Cauchon, commis-sioner
The Alaska frontier . 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 Canada * * * by Thomas Devine * * *By order of the Hon. Joseph Cauchon, commis-sioner of Crown lands. Crown department, Toronto,* * * 1877. This official Canadian map pub-lished in 1877, upholds, as the accompanying repro-duction shows, the United States frontier claim.(See Map No. 25.) On an official Canadian mapof British Columbia, published in 1884, while thefrontier line is not marked along the PortlandChannel but from Cape Chacon to the head ot 81 This map is now in the possession of the I Map OF THE NORTH WEST PART OF Canada * * * by Thomas Devink * * *By order of the Hon. Joseph Cauchon, commissioner of CrownLANDS Crown department, Toronto * * * 1877- MAP No. 25. 148 THE ALASKA FRONTIER. Behms Canal in fifty-six degrees north latitude,yet from that point the frontier line, though some-times marked too close to the shore, is drawn soas to include all the sinuosities of the mainlandin their entirety in American territory. (See MapNo. 26.) And again on another Canadian Govern-ment map, issued in 1884, Map shewing the Rail-ways of Canada, to accompany Annual Report onRailway Statistics, 1884, Collingwood Schreiber, ChiefEngineer and Genl. Manager Canadian Governmentrailways, the frontier rims south of Pearse Island,then up the Portland Channel, and then far inland,sustaining absolutely the contention of the United Statesand overthrowing all the Canadian arguments aboutmeasuring the ten leagues inland from, the outer lineof the territorial waters. (S
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