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Canada: United States of America. 'Maps of the boundary between the British possessions...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1568
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This record is about the Canada: United States of America. 'Maps of the boundary between the British possessions... dating from 1876-1879 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/1568
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1876-1879
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Description (What the record is about)
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Canada: United States of America. 'Maps of the boundary between the British possessions in North America and the United States. From the North West. Angle of the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains under Article 2 of the Convention of 20 October 1818. Signed on 29 May 1876. (Signed by the British and United States Commissioners)'. Joint series of twenty-four maps and an index in a volume. Map showing the 49th parallel and surrounding country. Physical features, trigonometrical stations, positions of iron boundary pillars and mounds. Scale: 1 inch to 2 miles. Index map: 1 inch to 16 miles. Each map is signed by the British and United States commissioners, D R Cameron and Archibald Campbell, and by the chief Astronomers, Captain S Anderson, Royal Engineers, and Captain W J Twining. Photozincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, under the Superintendence of Lieutenant Colonel R M Parsons, Royal Engineers, FRS. Each sheet is certified correct by Major-General J Cameron, Royal Engineers, Director-General. Sent as enclosure number 2 in Sir E Thornton's despatch number 168 of 21 July 1879.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Photozincographed
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- International
- Army
- Maps and plans
- Americas
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 265
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Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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