Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1 The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Sector Theory
- Part 2 The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago as Historic Waters
- Part 3 The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Straight Baselines
- Part 4 The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Northwest Passage
- Notes
- General Conclusion
- Appendix A The 1825 Boundary Treaty, Great Britain and Russia
- Appendix B The 1867 Boundary Treaty, United States and Russia
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Part 2 - The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago as Historic Waters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1 The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Sector Theory
- Part 2 The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago as Historic Waters
- Part 3 The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Straight Baselines
- Part 4 The Waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Northwest Passage
- Notes
- General Conclusion
- Appendix A The 1825 Boundary Treaty, Great Britain and Russia
- Appendix B The 1867 Boundary Treaty, United States and Russia
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Summary
In December 1973, the Legal Bureau of the Department of External Affairs expressed the position of the Canadian government in the following terms: ‘Canada … claims that the waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago are internal waters of Canada, on an historical basis, although they have not been declared as such in any treaty or by any legislation’. This is taken to mean that Canada claims to have an historical title to those waters; the waters would be what are commonly called ‘historic waters’. Given Canada's position, this part examines the doctrine of historic waters and its applicability to the waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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- Canada's Arctic Waters in International Law , pp. 89 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988
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