A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842
ISBN: 9781442670327
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



The story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between British North America and the United States. Though established by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the boundary was plagued by ambiguities and errors in the document.


Carroll Francis M. :

Francis M. Carroll is Senior Scholar of History at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College.

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