Issues Arising From The Treaty
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The dispute over the San Juan Islands, mentioned above, lasted until an arbitration agreement in 1871. The treaty also had the unintended consequence of putting what became Point Roberts, Washington on the "wrong" side of the border. A peninsula jutting south from Canada into Boundary Bay, the agreement made the land south of the 49th parallel a separate fragment of the United States.
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