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  2. 49th parallel north - Wikipedia

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    In 1909 the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada signed and ratified a treaty confirming the original survey lines as the official and permanent international border. Nevertheless, in 2002 the difference of the survey from the geographical 49th parallel was argued in front of the Washington Supreme Court in the case of State of Washington v.

  3. Oregon boundary dispute - Wikipedia

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    The Americans suggested dividing the Pacific Northwest along the 49th parallel, which was the border between the United States and British North America east of the Rocky Mountains. The lack of accurate cartographic knowledge led American diplomats to declare the Louisiana Purchase gave them an incontestable claim to the region. [ 9 ]

  4. Treaty of 1818 - Wikipedia

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    In fixing the problem, the 1818 treaty created a pene-enclave of the United States, the Northwest Angle, the small section of the present state of Minnesota that is the only part of the United States apart from Alaska that lies north of the 49th parallel. Article III provided for joint control of land in the Oregon Country for ten years. Both ...

  5. Point Roberts, Washington - Wikipedia

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    Point Roberts is a pene-exclave of Washington on the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, south of Vancouver, British Columbia.The area, which had a population of 1,191 at the 2020 census, [2] is reached from the rest of the United States by traveling 25 mi (40 km) through Canada, or by boat or private airplane. [3]

  6. Northwest Angle - Wikipedia

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    Excluding surveying errors, [2] it is the only place in the contiguous United States north of the 49th parallel, which forms the border between the U.S. and Canada from the Northwest Angle westward to the Strait of Georgia (between the U.S. state of Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia).

  7. Oregon Country - Wikipedia

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    In the 1820s, Russia gave up its claims south of 54°40′ and east of the 141st meridian in separate treaties with the United States and Britain. [17] Meanwhile, the United States and Britain negotiated the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, which extended the boundary between their territories west along the 49th parallel to the Rocky ...

  8. Canada–United States border - Wikipedia

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    The 45th parallel (marked in red) was established as a border between the Province of Quebec and the United States in the Treaty of Paris.. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States.

  9. List of extreme points of U.S. states and territories - Wikipedia

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    The 49th parallel was agreed to be the border between the United States and British North America (later Canada) from Lake of the Woods to the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the Treaty of 1818 and Oregon Treaty. However, the true boundary line as surveyed deviates several seconds from the true parallel, as seen in this significantly exaggerated ...