LEADER 04605nam 22006495 450 001 996247972503316 005 20201113203047.0 010 $a1-4426-7032-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442670327 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001458 035 $a(dli)HEB06231 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000376437 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12135615 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000376437 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10332864 035 $a(PQKB)10003448 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600704 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255422 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4634601 035 $a(DE-B1597)479124 035 $a(OCoLC)987941850 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442670327 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001458 100 $a20190708d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Good and Wise Measure $eThe Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 /$fFrancis M. Carroll 210 1$aToronto :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 462 p. )$cmaps ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-8358-7 311 $a0-8020-4829-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Maps --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction: Working out a Method, 1783-1814 --$tPART ONE. Commissions under the Treaty of Ghent: 1816-1827 --$t2. Article 4: Islands in the Bay --$t3. Article 5: Highlands and the Source of the St Croix --$t4. Article 5: The Forty-Fifth Parallel, the Connecticut, and Deadlock --$t5 Article 6: The St Lawrence and the Great Lakes --$tChapter Six. Article 7: From Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods --$tPART TWO. Arbitration and Uncertainty: The 1820's and 1830's --$t7. Preparing for Arbitration --$t8. The Award and Its Problems --$t9. Skirmishes on the Frontier --$t10. Surveys and Struggles --$tPART THREE. Grasping the Nettle: 1841-1845 --$t11. Sea Change: Initiative and Compromise --$t12. The Webster-Ashburton Negotiations --$t13. Storm over the Treaty --$tNotes --$tSources --$tIndex 330 $aIn this detailed and fascinating book, Francis Carroll tells the story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between Canada and the United States from the Atlantic coast to the middle of the continent. Established by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, it soon became clear that ambiguities and errors in the treaty brought confusion and rivalry in the boundary borderland from New Brunswick and Maine to the St. Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes and from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods, in the heart of the continent. This borderland, steadily filling with people of competing interests - Loyalists and Yankees, fur traders and soldiers, Europeans and First Nations peoples - became the focus of the major crisis in Anglo-Canadian-American relations for almost sixty years. Drawing on extensive research and utilizing manuscript materials never brought to bear on the subject before, The Search for Boundary is the first work to thoroughly explain the efforts of the several Boundary Commissions and the failed arbitration of the King of Netherlands - all major international attempts to settle the boundary. The book also provides a fresh interpretation of the relevance the turbulent decade of the 1830's had in contributing to the sense of urgency that finally allowed for negotiation of a reasonable compromise settlement of the boundary in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 -- "A good and wise measure," as Lord Ashburton called it. Filled with the politics and intrigues of the time, Carroll brings to life a remarkable time in the diplomatic and political history of both Canada and the United States. Winner of the Dafoe Book Prize, awarded by the J.W. Dafoe Foundation 606 $aHistory 607 $aCanada$xBoundaries$zNortheastern States 607 $aCanada$xHistory$y1763-1867 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aNortheast boundary of the United States 607 $aNortheastern States$xBoundaries$zCanada 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1783-1865 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHistory. 676 $a327.73041 700 $aCarroll$b Francis M.$0945905 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247972503316 996 $aA Good and Wise Measure$92364459 997 $aUNISA