THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. i(^ 



tangible interest at stake, and in the action of the Government of the 

 United States in 1896 there is nothing but a sentiment. Had the 

 Government of Ontario tamely acquiesced in the instructions issued 

 from Ottawa, instead of vigorously contesting their claim to 

 the final award, it would have meant to this Province the loss of 

 100,000 square miles of territory. 



The New Ontario lies within boundaries declared by the Im- 

 perial Parliament in 1889, in an Act passed in accordance with the 

 terms of an address from the Senate and Commons of Canada pre- 

 sented to the Queen in that year. These boundaries are substantially 

 the same as those agreed upon in 1878, in the award of the arbitra- 

 tors appointed by the Dominion and Ontario Governments, but 

 subsequently repudiated by the Dominion Government ; and, as far 

 as they go, they are identical with the boundaries found by the Judi- 

 cial Committee of the Privy Council in 1884. In the schedule to 

 the Imperial Act they are described as follows : 



"Commencing at the point where the international boundary 

 between the United States of America and Canada strikes the 

 western shores of lake Superior, thence westerly along the said 

 boundary to the northwest angle of the Lake of the Woods, thence 

 along a line drawn due north until it strikes the middle line of the 

 course of the river discharging the waters of the lake called lake Seul, 

 or the Lonely lake, whether above or below its confluence with the 

 stream flowing from the Lake of the Woods towards lake Winnipeg, 

 and thence proceeding eastward from the point at which the before 

 mentioned line strikes the middle line of the course of the river last 

 aforesaid, along the middle line of the course of the same river 

 (whether called by the name of English river, or as to the part be- 

 low the confluence, by the name of the river Winnipeg) up to lake 

 Seul, or the Lonely lake, and thence along the middle line of lake 

 Seul or Lonely lake to the head of that lake, and thence by a straight 

 line to the nearest point of the middle line of the waters of lake St. 

 Joseph, and thence along that middle line until it reaches the foot 

 or outlet of that lake, and thence along the middle line of the river 

 by which the waters of lake St. Joseph discharge themselves to the 

 shore of the part of Hudson bay commonly known as James bay, 

 and thence southeasterly, following up the said shore to a point 

 where a line drawn due north from the head of lake Temiscaming 



