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As a result of the Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842, the United States ceded 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2) of disputed territory to the British / Canadians along the American-claimed northern Maine border, including the Halifax–Quebec Route, but kept 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2) of the disputed wilderness. [12]
An Act for vesting certain Freehold Messuages, Fee Farm Rents, and Hereditaments, respectively situate and arising in the City of London, devised and settled by the Will of Broome Witts Esquire, deceased, in Trustees, for Sale, and for laying oat the Monies to be produced by such Sale in the Purchase of other Estates, to be settled in the same ...
June 26 – Zoé Lafontaine, wife of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1921) June 30 – William Smithe, politician and 6th Premier of British Columbia (died 1887) July 11 – Louis-Philippe Turcotte, historian (died 1878) August 14 – Malcolm Alexander MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver (died 1895)
Prior to European contact, First Nations people on the Pacific Coast would frequently trade salmon with First Nations people of the Canadian Prairies. [2] Shortly after European settlements had begun appearing in British Columbia in the mid 19th century, the first salmon canneries had begun appearing alongside them, the first being a salmon cannery in the Fraser river in 1867.
The cession of these lands, which for the most part lay between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, was key to establishing a harmonious union among the former British colonies. The areas ceded comprise 236,825,600 acres (370,040.0 sq mi; 958,399 km 2 ), or 10.4 percent of current United States territory , and make up all or ...
Soon after its founding, the present-day city of Owen Sound, Ontario, was named Sydenham in 1842 in honour of the recently deceased Governor of Canada; in 1856, the community became a town and was renamed Owen Sound after the adjacent body of water. Sydenham is the name of the principal river that runs through Owen Sound.
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Beecham's Pills were a laxative first marketed about 1842 in Wigan, Lancashire. They were invented by Thomas Beecham (1820–1907), grandfather of the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham (1879–1961). The British pharmaceutical firm, established in 1859 as Beechams , became a global brand, and in the year it was founded produced the first advertising ...