Canada and Alaska was marked, it is understood, in accordance with the Russian and the United States ideas of the boundary. This map hung thereafter for a number of years in the Parliament Building at Ottawa until it "disappeared" about 1886. While it is not possible at present to give a reproduction of this map, three others, more or less rare, are at hand, which show what the Canadian authorities thought was the boundary the year immediately before the Paris Exposition of 1878, and also six years afterwards, at the time General Cameron was beginning to formulate the myth that Canada has ever since reiterated and gradually perfected. The copy of the first of these maps, which was published in 1877, belonged to the late Pierre Margry," for many years keeper of the Archives of the Ministry of Marine at Paris. The map is entitled: "Map of the north west part of Canada * * ** by Thomas Devine * By order of the Hon. Joseph Cauchon, commissioner of Crown lands, Crown department, Toronto, 1877." This official Canadian map published in 1877, upholds, as the accompanying reproduction shows, the United States frontier claim. (See Map No. 25.) On an official Canadian map of British Columbia, published in 1884, while the frontier line is not * marked along the Portland Channel but from Cape Chacon to the head of "This map is now in the possession of the writer. "MAP OF THE NORTH WEST PART OF CANADA * BY THOMAS DEVINE * BY ORDER OF THE HON. JOSEPH CAUCHON, COMMISSIONER OF CROWN * * * 1877." MAP No. 25. UNIV OF 4 C Behm's Canal in fifty-six degrees north latitude, yet from that point the frontier line, though sometimes marked too close to the shore, is drawn so as to include all the sinuosities of the mainland in their entirety in American territory. (See Map No. 26.) And again on another Canadian Government map, issued in 1884, "Map shewing the Railways of Canada, to accompany Annual Report on Railway Statistics, 1884, Collingwood Schreiber, Chief Engineer and Genl. Manager Canadian Government railways," the frontier runs south of Pearse Island, then up the Portland Channel, and then far inland, sustaining absolutely the contention of the United States and overthrowing all the Canadian arguments about measuring the ten leagues inland from the outer line of the territorial waters. (See Map No. 27.) It is difficult to see how the Canadian government can in any way evade the evidence furnished against it by these official maps. But the British Imperial Government is even more sharply blocked by its own official admissions from backing up the Canadian claims. For upon the British "Admiralty Chart No. 787," giving the North-west coast of America from Cape Corrientes, Mexico, to Kadiak Island," prepared in 1876 by F. J. Evans, R. N., published in 1877 and corrected up to April 1898, the frontier of the United States is marked from the Arctic Ocean down along the one hundred and forty-first degree of longitude west from Greenwich, and then advancing |