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Area now in Canada: British Columbia: Juan de Fuca Strait. Admiralty chart: unnumbered,...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1884
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This record is about the Area now in Canada: British Columbia: Juan de Fuca Strait. Admiralty chart: unnumbered,... dating from 1847-1872 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/1884
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1847-1872
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Area now in Canada: British Columbia: Juan de Fuca Strait. Admiralty chart: unnumbered, undated, lacking the Admiralty imprint: 'Strait of Juan de Fuca and the channels between Vancouver Id. and the Continent' Shows the boundary line between 'British and American Possessions'. From Admiralty surveys by Captains H Kellett, 1847 and G H Richards, 1858-1863, both Royal Navy. Drawn by J Powell of the Hydrographic Office. Lithographed by Malby and Sons. Beneath the title is pasted a printed note: 'The limits of the Channel separating the Continent from Vancouver Island as determined by the award of the Emperor of Germany 21st October 1872, a defined as the Boundary line drawn through the centre of it and the Strait of San Juan de Fuca to the Pacific Ocean'. Signed by G H Richards.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Lithographed
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 526
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