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Article: The search for the Canadian-American boundary along the Michigan frontier, 1819-1827: the boundary commissions under articles six and seven of the treaty of ghent.
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- Michigan Historical Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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The international boundary between the United States and Canada, or specifically Michigan and Ontario, was a product of the negotiations in Paris in 1782 and 1783 leading to the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. We recognize that boundary as basically the water courses between Lake Erie and Lake Huron and between Lake Huron and Lake Superior. In retrospect, that boundary using the Great Lakes and their waterways seems like the obvious and simplest solution to dividing the central part of the continent between the new United States and British North America. The reality was more complicated. The diplomats in Paris had first to agree on the nature of the boundary, and ...