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n.
the dispute (1818-1846) between Great Britain and the United States over the Oregon country, settled by division at the present British Columbia-Oregon border.
See: Oregon question
Quotations
1921
When the negotiations between the Hudson's Bay Company and the United States government were under way to settle the Oregon dispute, the Company claimed 160,000 acres of land as being farmed and grazed by them.
1963
These changes were the settlement of the Oregon dispute with the United States and the abolition of the Corn Laws in the United Kingdom, both in 1846.