Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 14 July 1862, CO 60:14, no. 6878, 76.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (6), Other documents (1).
Murdoch writes Elliot to acknowledge Ward's questions regarding
government financial support for women considering emigration to British Columbia and informs him that no such
supports exist.
Murdoch to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)
Emigration Office
14 July 1862
I have to acknowledge your letter of 11th instant
with a letter from Mrs Ward enquiring whether any
assistance would be given towards the Emigration to B. Columbia of herself and her daughter, and offering, if such
assistance be given, to take charge of a number of respectable
young women who are anxious to emigrate to that Colony.
In
2. In reply I have to state that there is no Fund under
the control of the Government, nor am I aware that there is
any fund under private control, out of which Emigration to
British Columbia can be assisted. It will not, therefore,
be possible to take advantage of the services of Mrs Ward
on the conditions she has proposed.
Minutes by CO staff
Mrs Ward wants to have any info wh wd help
her "to get out to a Country where her labour will be
remunerated" ask E.C. privately whether we can do anything
better than send a copy of the Colonizn Circular pointing
attention to the names of the difft Emgn Agents
wh(I
(I suppose) are given in it.
(I suppose) are given in it.
If the "B. Columbia Female Emigration Society" has
come into actual existance, Mrs Ward might be referred to it.
CF
2
I lately saw Miss Rye who is engaged in carrying out a scheme
of Female Emigration to B.C. I sent to Mr Murdoch
requesting him to see her. Enquire privately if anything
can be done in that quarter.
N
3
Sir F. Rogers
I am afraid Mrs Ward is not likely to succeed with the Agents of the two Colonies which now give pecuniary assistance towards Emigration—but there can of course be no objection to sending her the Colonization Circular—at p.p. 5 & 6 of which she will find the Colonies to which assisted passages are given and the Agents to whom she should apply. The British Columbia Emigration Society is not yet, I believe, in operation—or at all events not sufficiently advanced to be able to do anything. But Mrs Ward might perhaps be referred to Miss Rye—it being distinctly understood that the Colonial Office do not recommend her to Miss Rye, or become guarantees for her or her daughter, but that Miss Rye must make all the necessary enquiries herself.
I am afraid Mrs Ward is not likely to succeed with the Agents of the two Colonies which now give pecuniary assistance towards Emigration—but there can of course be no objection to sending her the Colonization Circular—at p.p. 5 & 6 of which she will find the Colonies to which assisted passages are given and the Agents to whom she should apply. The British Columbia Emigration Society is not yet, I believe, in operation—or at all events not sufficiently advanced to be able to do anything. But Mrs Ward might perhaps be referred to Miss Rye—it being distinctly understood that the Colonial Office do not recommend her to Miss Rye, or become guarantees for her or her daughter, but that Miss Rye must make all the necessary enquiries herself.
TWCM
5 Augt
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Fortescue to Emily Elizabeth Ward, 11 May 1862, advising that the
government had no emigration funds, referring her
to Miss Rye, and enclosing copy of the colonization circular.