HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lower Canada, Midwestern United States
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1814 treaty of ghent; 1817 rush-bahgot agreement; 1818 boundary convention. Some of the boundary issues had been dealt with in 1812: the nova scotia/maine dispute was not resolved (boundary up st. john river) In 1783, the lake of woods treaty took the boundary south to the 48th, 49th parallel. The united states bought louisiana (mississippi to the rockies) from napoleon there was not agreement between britain and the us on this issue. In 1812, both britain and america have fleets (the largest british fleet in north. Both governments want to reduce expenditure aka stop building ships, etc. Rush bahgot treaty 1817: a minister (diplomat of britain): no more naval construction (no more building, a disarmament agreement no more navy on the great lakes (functions for. Some claim that this leads to the undefended border not true the border continues to be defended (military construction continues) an army is maintained in canada until 1871.
