Between Great Britain and the United States, Concluded
the 9th of August, 1842.
(Extract)
Article II.It is, moreover, agreed that, from
the place where the Joint Commissioners terminated their labour, under
the VI. Article of the Treaty of Ghent, to wit, at a point In the
Neebish Channel, near Muddy Lake. the line shall run into and along the
ship channel between St. Joseph and St. Tammany islands, to the division
of the channel at or near the head of St. Joseph's Island; thence
turning eastwardly and northwardly around the lower end of St. George's
or Sugar Island, and following the middle of the channel which divides
St. George's from St. Joseph's island: thence up the East Neebish
Channel nearest to St. George's Island, through the middle or Lake
George; thence west of Jonas' Island into St. Mary's River, to a point
in the middle of that river, about one mile above St. George's or Sugar
Island, so as to appropriate and assign the said Island to the United
States; thence adopting the line traced on the maps by the
Commissioners, through the River St. Mary and Lake Superior, to a point
north of Isle Royale, in said lake, one hundred yards to the north and
cast of Ile Chapeau, which last-mentioned island lies near the
north-eastern point of Isle Royale, where the line marked by the
Commissioners terminates; and from the last-mentioned point
south-westerly through the middle of the sound between isle Royale and
the north-western mainland, to the mouth of Pigeon River, and up the
said river to and through the North and South Fowl Lakes, to the lakes
of the height of land between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods;
thence along the water communication to Lake Salsaginaga, and through
that lake; thence to and through Cypress Lake, Lac du Bois Blanc, Lac La
Croix, Little Vermillion Lake, and Lake Namecan, and through the several
smaller lakes, straits, or streams connecting the lakes here mentioned
to that point in Lac la Pluie, or Rainy Lake, at the Chaudiere Falls,
from which the Commissioners traced the line to the most north-western
point of the Lake of the Woods; thence along the said line to the said
most north-western point. being in latitude 49° 23' 55" north, and in
longitude 95° 14' 38" west from the Observatory at Greenwich;
thence, accord to existing Treaties, due south to its intersection with
the 49th parallel of north latitude, and along that parallel to the
Rocky Mountains. (It being understood that all the water communications,
and all the usual portages along the line from Lake Superior to the Lake
of the Woods, and also Grand Portage, from the shore of lake Superior to
the Pigeon River, as now actually used, shall be free and open to the
use of the citizens and subjects of both countries.)
Compliments Thunder Bay Historical Society.
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