Abstract

The Alaska Boundary

A process of myth-making by reiteration has for several years been in progress in Canada regarding the question of the Alaskan boundary, and bids fair to produce, sooner or later, serious consequences. Such subjects offer gold mines for the sensational press in either country, and so the evil grows. On the whole, the press of the United States has been indifferent, occupied with more timely matters, and the reiteration of the Canadian myth across the border has passed unheeded. An excellent example of the literature above alluded to is a recent publication, in the "Canadian Law Review" for September, of an article by Thomas Hodgins, K.C., of Toronto, which is also printed in the "Contemporary Review." It is well written, gives evidence at much familiarity with international law.