Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . 1895 gold was discovered in theYukon territory, which is inaccessible from the sea, exceptthrough the strip given to Russia in 1825, which now belongsto the United States. No attempt had been made to delimitthe frontier between this and the Yukon; so after considerablenegotiations, the matter was submitted to the arbitration ofthree American and three British jurists. Mr. Aylesworth,afterward Sir Allen Aylesworth, and Sir Louis Jette werethe two Canadians on this b
Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . 1895 gold was discovered in theYukon territory, which is inaccessible from the sea, exceptthrough the strip given to Russia in 1825, which now belongsto the United States. No attempt had been made to delimitthe frontier between this and the Yukon; so after considerablenegotiations, the matter was submitted to the arbitration ofthree American and three British jurists. Mr. Aylesworth,afterward Sir Allen Aylesworth, and Sir Louis Jette werethe two Canadians on this board. The decision was subse-quently in favor of the American claim. A good deal of feeling was aroused in Canada throughthe action of Lord Alverstone, the only English member ofthe board, in agreeing to relinquish two small islands, Sitklanand Kannaghumutt, without the knowledge of his Canadianconfreres. From Ketchikan, we approached Wrangell, the oldestsettlement in these waters, one hundred miles farther village is situated on an island of the same name, andis the most picturesque town site between Vancouver and.
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