. Canada under British rule, 1760-1900. entre of the river and the great lakes as far as the head of LakeSuperior. The issue of negotiations so stupidly conducted bythe British commissioner, was a treaty which gave an extremelyvague definition of the boundary in the north-east betweenMaine and Nova Scotia—which until 1784 included NewBrunswick—and displayed at the same time a striking exampleof geographical ignorance as to the north-west. The treatyspecified that the boundary should pass from the head of LakeSuperior through Long Lake to the north-west angle of theLake of the Woods, and thence
. Canada under British rule, 1760-1900. entre of the river and the great lakes as far as the head of LakeSuperior. The issue of negotiations so stupidly conducted bythe British commissioner, was a treaty which gave an extremelyvague definition of the boundary in the north-east betweenMaine and Nova Scotia—which until 1784 included NewBrunswick—and displayed at the same time a striking exampleof geographical ignorance as to the north-west. The treatyspecified that the boundary should pass from the head of LakeSuperior through Long Lake to the north-west angle of theLake of the Woods, and thence to the Mississippi, when, as amatter of fact there was no Long Lake, and the source of theMississippi was actually a hundred miles or so to the south ofthe Lake of the Woods. This curious blunder in the north- X.] Relations with the United States. 293 west was only rectified in 1842, when Lord Ashburton settledthe difficulty by conceding to the United States an invaluablecorner of British territory in the east (see below, p. 299).. International Boundary ^s finally establishedIN 1842 at Lake of the Woods. The only practical advantage that the people of the pro-vinces gained from the Treaty of Ghent, which closed thewar of 1812-15, was an acknowledgment of the undoubtedfishery rights of Great Britain and her dependencies in theterritorial waters of British North America. In the treaty of1783 the people of the United States obtained the right tofish on the Grand and other banks of Newfoundland, and inthe Gulf of St Lawrence and at all other places in the sea, 294 Canada under British Rule, [CHAP. where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time here-tofore to fish; but they were to have only the Hberty oftaking fish on the coasts of Newfoundland and also of allother of his Britannic Majestys dominions in America; andalso of drying and curing fish in any of the unsettled bays, har-bours, and creeks of Nova Scotia (then including New Bruns-wick), Magdalen Islands, and
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