Abstract
Numerous accounts have been written about the problems, political and economic, and the negotiations and the lack of negotiations that delayed the settlement of the Alaska/Canada Boundary until 1903. Yet scant attention has been paid to the special problems pertaining to the Stikine River portion of the Alaska Boundary. And only meagre references have been made to the case of Peter Martin which brought about a temporary settlement of the Stikine Boundary, years before the final Alaska Boundary settlement. Before 1870 the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia, although never surveyed, was not a matter of dispute. In 1825 Great Britain and Russia signed a Convention dealing chiefly with the conduct of navigation, trade, and fishing in the northern territories. Included in the Convention was a description of the demarcation line between the Russian and British territories which Articles I II and IV defined as:
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