Author: GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Title: Return to an Address of the House of Commons, Dated 21st February, 1878;-- for Copy of the Report, with Accompanying Map, of the Engineer Employed Last Year in Determining the Probable Boundary Line Between British Columbia and Alaska; Also, Copy of His Instructions, with Copy of the Treaty or Convention Between Great Britain and Russia, Respecting the Said Boundary; And Also, Such Other Papers As Relate to the Defining of the Boundary Line Between Alaska and British Territory, and the Navigation of the Rivers Passing from Columbia, Through Alaska to the Sea.
Description: [Ottawa], [Queen's Printer]. 1878. (Disbound) Very good. 171pp. 8vo. Disbound from Sessional Papers. Textblock lightly age-toned. Charts. Maps: "Tracing of part of "Alaska" shewing "Stakeen River" from U.S. Coast Survey of 1869" facing p28; folding map of "Tracing shewing part of Alaska including the mouth of the Stachine River from the Admiralty Charts" between pp30 / 31; sketch map facing p103; sketch map facing p.135; folding map of "Plan of the Stachine (or Stickeen) River" between pp150 / 151. Faint foxing from pp.27-30; also affecting map facing p.28. Similar faint foxing from pp.102-103; likewise affecting map facing p.103. Again, faint foxing from pp.134-135; affecting map facing p.135. With the blemishes duly noted, this remains an acceptable, clean copy of this important Sessional Papers, complete with maps. Sessional Papers (No.125). 41 Victoria. A. 1878.

Keywords: Sessional Papers, Alaska, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Maps, Northern British Columbia, Northern Canada, Northwest Coast, United States


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