Canada and its provinces; a history of the Canadian people and their institutions . t, and the second great boundarycontroversy with the mother-country was at an end. 1 Richard Olney, United States secretary of state, in a communication to SirJulian Pauncefote, June 22, 1896, stated that It can not be irrelevant to remarkthat spheres of influence and the theory or practice of the Hinterland ideaare things unknown to international law and do not as yet rest upon any recog-nized principles of either international or municipal law. They are new depar-tures which certEun great European powers have
Canada and its provinces; a history of the Canadian people and their institutions . t, and the second great boundarycontroversy with the mother-country was at an end. 1 Richard Olney, United States secretary of state, in a communication to SirJulian Pauncefote, June 22, 1896, stated that It can not be irrelevant to remarkthat spheres of influence and the theory or practice of the Hinterland ideaare things unknown to international law and do not as yet rest upon any recog-nized principles of either international or municipal law. They are new depar-tures which certEun great European powers have found necessary and convenientin the course of their division among themselves of great tracts of the continentof Africa, and which find their sanction solely in their reciprocal stipulations(Moore, A Digest of International Law, i. pp. 268-9). SAN JUAN WATER BOUNDARY i:nav,h ma,!, LEGEND — Boundary contended for by Great Britain,?• Boundary contended for by United States. t + Boundary awarded by Arbitrator, Oct. 21st, 1872. - - Compromise offered by British Ftepiu-e/l hy Jasnes Mltite, tia-pran.^lv for CajiitJa and Itf Pri-7u-es. FROM FUNDY TO JUAN DE FUCA 871 It is not too much to say that, had it occurred before thetreaty of partition was signed, the province would probablyhave been lost to the British crown. San Juan Controversy Hardly was the ink on the Oregon Treaty dry beforedifferences arose respecting the identity of the channelwhich separates the continent from Vancouvers British government claimed the eastern channel,Rosario Strait, and the United States contended for thewestern channel, Haro Strait. Attempts were made to settle the question by negotia-tion, but were unsuccessful. Meanwhile settlers were occupy-ing the territory, and the consequent danger of collisions wassteadily increasing. In 1848 Crampton, British ministerat Washington, proposed to the Government of the UnitedStates to name a Joint Commission for the purpo
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