Excerpt from Address of Hon. Philander C. Knox: Before the Chicago Association of Commerce at Chicago, February 15, 1911
Accordingly Lord Elgin, Governor Gen era] of Canada, accompanied by the Canadian Prime Minister and a staff of assistants, came to Washington in May, 1854, to negotiate a treaty, and in a short time and in spite ofmuch opposition the treaty of 1854 was con cluded providing for the free exchange of natural products. This treaty was promptly ratified and an act was passed to carry it into effect.
Under the treaty of 1854 trade between the United States and Canada increased more than twice as much in one year as it had in three years without the treaty.
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