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Article: A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842.(History)(Book Review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Francis M. Carroll. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xxiii + 462 pp. $29.95 paper.
The friendly, "workable" boundary between today's U.S. and Canada belies the protracted "struggle" to "find," measure, and agree on its location (286, xiv). From the 1783 Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War, through the 1814 Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812, to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 (the final agreement), Britons, Canadians, and Americans viewed each other through a cloud of suspicion. Loyalist sentiment, the fur trade, the lumber economy, the environment of ...