An 1865 survey map calls this route the 'Telegraph Trail'. The Semiahmoo Trail still exists in White Rock and South Surrey, running from the site of the Boundary Commission Camp at the estuary of the Campbell River, overland to Mud Bay north of Crescent Beach. In turn, the International Boundary Survey Commission began in 1857 to set the boundary between the United States and British North America, roughly along the 49th parallel, which runs through Semiahmoo Bay and Boundary Bay to Point Roberts, Washington. Previously, these issues had been put on hold through a shared occupancy agreement of the Oregon territory by the two nations in the Treaty of 1818. The Oregon boundary dispute culminated in the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which settled the outstanding border issues between Great Britain and the United States. The Semiahmoo people also constructed forts as lookouts for raiders from the northern first nations one is located in the Ocean Park area. These were located along the waterfront at the eastern and western limits of the present City of White Rock. Semiahmoo First Nation permanent encampments were known to exist between 1791, the first European contact, and the 1850s, the beginnings of European settlement. The Straits Salish people dominated the region from Boundary Bay in the north to Birch Bay in the south (in the U.S.).
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