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Oregon question

• the dispute (1818-1846) between Great Britain and the United States over the Oregon country, settled by division at the present British Columbia-Oregon border.

  See also: Oregon dispute   Oregon Treaty  

  • 1846  The Oregon Question absorbs all others. . . .
  • 1881  These troops were probably sent to defend the frontier line owing to the fuss made by the Americans at the time on the Oregon question.
  • 1908  But perhaps the most notoriously absurd part the [Hudson's Bay] Company ever played internationally was in connection with what is known as "the Oregon question."