On June 15, 1846, the United States and Great Britain formally ended a decades-long joint occupation of Indigenous territory, which was then known as the Oregon Country – comprising much of present-day Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia.
Meanwhile, Moore’s job, along with his staff of seven, is to maintain the boundary –
Offshore, the International Boundary Commission is also responsible for marking the U.S.-Canada boundary in the waters west of Point Roberts, through Haro Strait and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The International Boundary Commission was officially created in 1908, but the survey work to mark the boundary goes back to the mid-19th century, soon after the U.S. and Great Britain signed the Treaty of 1846. Those original 19th-century surveyors marked the boundary way back then with piles of rocks called cairns, and those cairns stood, in some cases, for more than 50 years. Moore says that nowadays, the cairns are all long gone.
Beginning in 1908, the International Boundary Commission went through and re-surveyed the 19th-century line and replaced the old cairns with cast-iron monuments. Though many have been replaced, some of the monuments still in place along the Washington-Canada border are now more than 100 years old.
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