Editing Fort Vancouver (section)

===Later negotiations===
Throughout 1825 and 1826, British officials continued to offer Americans partition plans for the Pacific Coast of North America. These largely originated in part from correspondence with the NWC and later HBC. The border would continue to extend west on the 49th parallel to the Rocky Mountains, where the Columbia (and some times the Snake River) would be used as the border until it reached the Pacific Ocean. [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK)|Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] [[George Canning]] has been appraised by later historians as the most supportive British Foreign minister in securing a border along the Columbia.{{sfn|Galbraith|1957a|pp=184–188}} [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Henry Clay]] had given instructions to the American plenipotentiaries to offer a partition of the Pacific Northwest along the 49th parallel to the Pacific Ocean.{{sfn|Meany|1914|p=221}} The difference in the two considered plans were too much to solve, making the diplomats put off a formal colonial division once more.