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TREATY PROVISIONS

The treaty name is variously cited as
Convention of Commerce (Fisheries, Boundary and the Restoration of Slaves)
and Convention of Commerce between His Majesty and the United States of America

  • Article I secured fishing rights along Newfoundland and Labrador for the U.S.

  • Article II set the US-Canadian boundary along "a line drawn from the most northwestern point of the Lake of the Woods, south, then along the 49th parallel of north latitude..." to the "Stony Mountains" (now known as the Rocky Mountains ). This settled a boundary dispute caused by ignorance of actual geography in the boundary agreed to in the 1783 Treaty Of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War . It also created the anomalous Northwest Angle , the small section of the present state of Minnesota that is the only part of the United States outside of Alaska north of the 49th parallel.

  • Article III provided for joint control of land in the Oregon Country for ten years. Both could claim land and both were guaranteed free navigation throughout.

  • Article IV confirmed the Anglo-American Convention Of 1815 , which regulated commerce between the two parties, for an additional ten years.

  • Article V agreed to refer differences over a U.S. claim arising from the Treaty Of Ghent , which ended the War Of 1812 , to "some Friendly Sovereign or State to be named for that purpose". The U.S. claim was for return of, or compensation for, Slaves that were in British territory or on British naval vessels when the treaty was signed. The Treaty of Ghent article in question was about handing over property, and the U.S. claimed that these slaves were the property of U.S. citizens.

  • Article VI established that ratification would occur within at most six months of signing the treaty.



HISTORY

The treaty was negotiated for the U.S. by Albert Gallatin , ambassador to France , and Richard Rush , ambassador to Britain; and for Britain by Frederick John Robinson , Treasurer of the Royal Navy and member of the Privy Council , and Henry Goulburn , an undersecretary of state. The treaty was signed on October 20 , 1818 . Ratifications were exchanged on January 30 , 1819 . The Convention of 1818, along with the Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 , marked the beginning of friendly relations between the United Kingdom and its former colony, and paved the way for future good relations between the USA and Canada .

Despite the relatively friendly nature of the agreement, it nevertheless resulted in a fierce struggle for control of the Oregon Country in the following two decades. The British-owned Hudson's Bay Company , having previously established a trading network centered on Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River , undertook a harsh campaign to restrict encroachment by U.S. traders and (later) emigrants to the area. By the 1830s , with emigration pressure in the U.S. mounting, the company undertook a deliberate policy to exterminate all fur-bearing animals from the Oregon Country, in order to both maximize its remaining profit and to delay the arrival of U.S. mountain men and settlers. The policy of discouraging settlement was undercut to some degree by the actions of John McLoughlin , Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, who regulary provided relief and welcome to U.S. emigrants who had arrived at the post over the Oregon Trail . By the middle 1840s , the tide of U.S. emigration, as well as a U.S. political Movement To Claim The Entire Territory , led to a renegotiation of the agreement. The Oregon Treaty in 1846 permanently established the 49th Parallel as the boundary between the two nations to the Pacific Ocean .


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