Canadian History and Environment Series

Series Editor: Alan MacEachern

ISSN 1925-3702 (Print) ISSN 1925-3710 (Online)

The Canadian History & Environment series brings together scholars from across the academy and beyond to explore the relationships between people and nature in Canada’s past.

Alan MacEachern, Founding Director

NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment

Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’environnement

http://niche-canada.org

No. 1 ∙ A Century of Parks Canada, 1911–2011
Edited by Claire Elizabeth Campbell

No. 2 ∙ Historical GIS Research in Canada
Edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin

No. 3 ∙ Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory
Edited by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos

No. 4 ∙ Canadian Countercultures and the Environment
Edited by Colin M. Coates

No. 5 ∙ Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Edited by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin M. Coates

No. 6 ∙ Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
Edited by Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane

No. 7 ∙ Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History
Edited by Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin

No. 8 ∙ Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Edited by Joanna Dean, Darcy Ingram, and Christabelle Sethna

No. 9 ∙ Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
Edited by Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper

No. 10 ∙ The First Century of the International Joint Commission
Edited by Daniel Macfarlane and Murray Clamen

The First Century of the

International
Joint
Commission

EDITED BY

DANIEL MACFARLANE
and MURRAY CLAMEN

Canadian History and Environment Series

ISSN 1925-3702 (Print) ISSN 1925-3710 (Online)

© 2020 Daniel Macfarlane and Murray Clamen

University of Calgary Press

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: The first century of the International Joint Commission / edited by Daniel Macfarlane and Murray Clamen.

Names: Macfarlane, Daniel, 1979– editor. | Clamen, Murray, editor.

Series: Canadian history and environment series ; no. 10. 1925-3702

Description: Series statement: Canadian history and environment series, 1925-3702 ; no. 10 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190228504 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190228555 | ISBN 9781773851075 (softcover) | ISBN 9781773851082 (Open Access PDF) | ISBN 9781773851099 (PDF) | ISBN 9781773851105 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781773851112 (Kindle)

Subjects: LCSH: International Joint Commission—History. | LCSH: International rivers. | LCSH: International lakes. | LCSH: Canada—Boundaries—United States. | LCSH: United States—Boundaries—Canada.

Classification: LCC HD1694.A2 F57 2020 | DDC 341.4/4—dc23

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Copyediting by Ryan Perks

Cover image: Aerial View of Niagara Falls and Vicinity, 2018. Photograph by Daniel Macfarlane.

Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano