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COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY

COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY, a waterpower and water storage agreement between the United States and Canada to run for sixty years, signed in Washington, D.C., on 17 January 1961 and ratified by both nations. Under the terms of the treaty, the United States completed construction of the Libby Dam on the Kootenay branch of the Columbia River (northern Montana), and Canada built dams at Arrow Lake, Duncan Lake, Lower Bonnington, and Mica Creek in British Columbia. Water-power and water storage developments supply HYDROELECTRIC POWER to the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana and also to the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Craig, Gerald M. The United States and Canada. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968.

Martin, Lawrence. The Presidents and the Prime Ministers: Washington and Ottawa Face to Face: The Myth of Bilateral Bliss, 1867–1982. Toronto and Garden City, N.Y.: Double day, 1982.

Thomas Robson Hay/A. G.

See also Canada, Relations with; Canadian-American Waterways; Treaties with Foreign Nations.