CH-0048 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Oregon Treaty divides the Pacific region
The June 15 treaty established a boundary along the forty-ninth parallel with Vancouver Island retained on the British side; offshore disputes remained.
Not publication-ready. British–American claims are not equivalent to extinguishing Indigenous title.
- Historical place
- Pacific Northwest
- Present-day context
- Pacific Northwest — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- British, Americans, Indigenous nations
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- 2026-10-11
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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1846: 49th Parallel becomes international boundary
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia · institutional history · Review: page opened
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.