Treaty of 1818
Treaty establishing the western US–Canada border
Treaty of 1818
The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves, also known as the London Convention, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Convention of 1818, or simply the Treaty of 1818, is an international treaty signed in 1818 between the United States and the United Kingdom. This treaty resolved long-standing boundary issues between the two signatories. The treaty allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country, known to the British and in Canadian history as the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company, and including the southern portion of its sister district New Caledonia. The two signatories agreed to a boundary line involving the 49th parallel north to the Rocky Mountains because a straight-line boundary would be easier to survey through the Great Plains, than the pre-existing boundaries based on watersheds. The treaty marked both the United Kingdom's last permanent major loss of territory in what is now the continental United States and the United...
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