Title:
[Roman Catholic mission on the left bank of the Kootenay (i.e., Kootenai) River, south of the boundary in Washington Territory,
1861.]
Creator/Contributor:
Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers., photographer
Creator/Contributor:
Great Britain. North American Boundary Commission, creator
Abstract:
Log cabin indentified as Catholic mission or church. The location of this mission is discussed in some detail by several American
survey party members in "Evidence for the United States in the matter of the claim of the Hudson's Bay Company pending before
the British and American Joint Commission for the Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural
Companies" (published 1867). Witnesses were shown a copy of this photographic view and examined in order to establish whether
this mission site, below the 49th parallel, was part of or adjacent to an alleged Hudson's Bay Company "Kootenay post". James
Alden testified the site was three or four miles south of the 49th parallel, on the left bank of the Kootenay as the river
flowed southward (therefore the east side), and near the river but not in sight of it. He indicated there were three or four
small log "huts" and this church. The buildings were not occupied at the time of Alden's visit, which may have been a bit
earlier than when the photograph was taken. (See especially p. 551-554.)
Date:
[1861]
Subject:
Northwest, Pacific – Pictorial works
Note:
Date from Library of Congress. The Library of Congress copy has annotation "Kishenehn?" which appears to be incorrect, based
on information on other copies that locate the mission on the Kootenai River (which is west of Kishenehn.)
Physical Description:
1 photograph : albumen print on mount ; mount 26 x 35 cm.
Local Call Number:
BANC PIC 1963.040:22--AX
Filename:
cubanc_79_27_1137349a.tif
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