How is the boundary line determined at Niagara Falls?
The actual boundary line was set by the following treaties: The original International Boundary line had been established by the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 and later re-stated in the Jay’s Treaty of 1794. The same was similarly agreed to at the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 following the War of 1812. Paris Peace Treaty September 3rd 1783 And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries, viz.; from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude; from
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