ol, 174.

=San Juan Boundary.= Dispute arose between the United States and Great
Britain out of a difference of opinion as to the meaning of the phrase
"middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver
Island" in the treaty of 1846, and by which the rightful possession of
San Juan and other islands in the vicinity for years remained unsettled.
A compromise was made in 1859, both governments jointly occupying San
Juan with troops. Finally, by the Washington Treaty of 1871, the
question was referred to the arbitration of the German emperor, who
decided in favour of the United States. =Index=: =Md= Brought up under
Washington Treaty, 166; dispute caused by vague terms of Oregon Treaty,
178-179; submitted to arbitration of German emperor, 179; Macdonald on,
179-180; decision in favour of United States, 180-181. =Bib.=: Hertslet,
_Treaties and Conventions_.

=Sanstein.= =Ch= Clerk, brings news of amalgamation of de Monts and de
Caen Companies, 138.

=Saskatchewan.= Organized as a provisional district in 1882. It then
extended from long. 111 deg. 20' W. to the Manitoba boundary and Lake
Winnipeg, and from the northern boundary of the district of Assiniboia,
to the southern boundary of Athabaska. The province of Saskatchewan,
created in 1905, extends from long. 110 deg. on the west to the Manitoba
boundary on the east, extended north to lat. 60 deg., which forms the
northern boundary of the new province. The capital of the province is
Regina, former capital of the North-West Territories. _See also_
North-West Territories. =Bib.=: Lovell, _Gazetteer of Canada_.

=Saskatchewan Rebellion.= _See_ Riel Rebellion, 1885.

=Saskatchewan River.= Ultimate source is at the head waters of the Bow
River, about lat. 51 deg. 40', in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. After a
course of 1205 miles, it flows into Lake Winnipeg, finally discharging
its waters by the Nelson into Hudson Bay. The length of the South
Saskatchewan to its junction with the North Saskatchewan at the Forks is
865 miles; and of the North Saskatchewan, which rises in the watershed
range of the Rocky Mountains, near the source of the Athabaska, is 760
miles. La Verendrye reached the river, then known as the Pasquia, or
Poskoyac, in 1748, and built Fort Bourbon on the shores of Cedar Lake.
He ascended the river to the Forks, a few miles below which he built
Fort Poskoyac. In 1751 a party of French explorers ascended one of the
branches to the mountains