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3 unusual facts about Boundary Commission


Bonners Ferry, Idaho

Government surveyors of the Boundary Commission came in 1858 to establish the border between the United States and British Columbia.

John Leslie Marshall

After the 1992 election, the Boundary Commission recommended that the four Barnet seats be reduced to three.

Liberty of the Rolls

This apparent territorial anomaly disappeared in 1994 when the Boundary Commission altered the border to place all of the area east of Chancery Lane into the City.


John Jeremiah Bigsby

In 1822 he was appointed British secretary and medical officer to the Boundary Commission, and for several years he made extensive and important geological researches, contributing papers to the American Journal of Science and other scientific journals; and later embodying an account of his travels in a book entitled The Shoe and Canoe (1850).

Repartition of Ireland

The Boundary Commission determined the current border in 1925, although the Irish delegate (Professor Eoin MacNeill) had resigned from it in protest at its failure to respect the terms of the Treaty.


see also

Field post office

Indian Field Post Offices 1903-04, The Aden-Yemeni Boundary Commission, The Somaliland Field Force, Robson Lowe, 1979.

Javary River

The Brazilian Boundary Commission ascended it in 1866 to the junction of the Shino with its Jaquirana branch.

Local Government Boundary Commission for England

The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, which received Royal Assent on 12 November 2009, provided for the establishment of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE), and for the transfer to it of all the boundary-related functions of the Boundary Committee for England of the Electoral Commission.

Manitoba Highway 18

PTH 3 demarks the historic Boundary Commission Trail route which connected western communities to the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia.

Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens

He served from 1947 to 1948 as chairman of the tribunal set up to arbitrate between Indian judges disagreeing over the concept and substance of the Partition of India which had been announced by Lord Mountbatten and was being detailed by Sir Cyril Radcliffe's two boundary commission (one for Bengal, one for present-day Pakistan).

Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche

From 1842 Curzon was joint British Commissioner in Erzurum as part of the British-Turkish-Persian-Russian boundary commission sitting to delineate the Turkish and Persian frontier.

Vicente Cervantes

Don Vicente Cervantes was a contemporary of Martín Sessé y Lacasta and corresponded with Jean-Louis Berlandier, the French naturalist who botanized in Mexico and Texas as part of the Mexican Boundary Commission.