Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 21 November 1867, NAC RG7:G8C/14, 486.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Other documents (1).
Buckingham discusses receiving requests to grant land on Vancouver Island to the Church of Scotland. Buckingham informs Seymour that Buckingham could not grant the request to grant land to the Church of Scotland and discusses
how the land could not be granted in relation to the Hudson's Bay Company’s grant of land to the Church of England. The included document is a copy of the
memorial from individuals asking for a grant of land to the Church of Scotland.
No. 90
21 November 1867
Sir,
I have received from the Colonial Committee of the Church of
Scotland a Memorial, copy of which is enclosed praying for a grant
of land in Vancouver Island for the benefit of the Scotch Church
established there and I have also received from Mr. Dundasa
a letter
addressed to the Earl of Zetland by the Presbyterian community of
Victoria urging the same request. In reply I have caused the
Memorialists to be informed that the grant of land to the English
Church to which they refer was made by the Hudson's Bay Company, and
not by the Crown, that it is not the practice of the Crown to make
such grants, and that under these circumstances I am unable to comply
with the prayer of their Memorials.
a letter
addressed to the Earl of Zetland by the Presbyterian community of
Victoria urging the same request. In reply I have caused the
Memorialists to be informed that the grant of land to the English
Church to which they refer was made by the Hudson's Bay Company, and
not by the Crown, that it is not the practice of the Crown to make
such grants, and that under these circumstances I am unable to comply
with the prayer of their Memorials.
Other documents included in the file
Copy, "Memorial of the Colonial Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland."