Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 19 November 1867, NAC RG7:G8C/14, 480.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Following correspondence from Seymour and the passing of a resolution of British Columbia’s legislative council, Buckingham discusses the possibility of British Columbia joining
with the Eastern Provinces of North America,focusing on the
intervening territory now under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company.
No. 87
19 November 1867
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your two
despatches, No. 126, and Separate of the 24th September the first
enclosing copy of a resolution passed by the Legislative Council in
favor of negotiations being entered into for the union of British
Columbia with theEastern
Eastern Provinces of North America, the second
containing your remarks upon the subject.
Eastern Provinces of North America, the second
containing your remarks upon the subject.
Whatever might be the advantages which in the course time might
result from the Union of British North America under one Government
it appears to me that the consideration of that question must at all
events await the time when the intervening territory now under the
control of the Hudsons Bay Company shall have been incorporated with
the Confederation.