Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Macfie, Matthew to Colonial Office 3 June 1859, CO 60:6, no. 5775, 597.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Macfie requests to know the number
of English and Scotch Emigrants (1) in Vancouver's island and (2) in British Columbia.
Macfie to Colonial Office
Alton St
Blackburn
3d June/59
Blackburn
Sir
May I beg that you will favour me with an idea of the proportion
of
English and Scotch Emigrants (1) in Vancouver's island and (2) in
British Columbia, according to the most recent accounts?
It will be sufficient for my purpose to have a rough guess. I
may say that I am urgently in want of the information, 
and should
feel obliged by a reply at your Earliest Convenience.
and should
feel obliged by a reply at your Earliest Convenience.
Hoping it may be in your power to meet my wishes,
P.S. Address Rev. Mattw Macfie
Minutes by CO staff
Annex dt.
HM
June 6
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Elliot to Macfie, 14 June 1859, advising that the
information requested could not be provided by the Colonial Office.