Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Seymour, Frederick to Grenville, Richard 2 April 1868, CO 60:32, no. 6298, 187.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2), Other documents (3), Marginalia (1).
Seymour forwards
a Minute by the Surveyor Generalof British Columbia regarding
passes [and roads] through the Rocky Mountains.Seymour also forwards
an explanatory Map.Cox minutes that
nothingcan be done at the moment. Included documents discuss establishing a coach road from the Pacific coast to Canada.
No. 26
New Westminster
2nd April 1868
My Lord Duke,
I have the honor to forward a Paper which will not be without
interest to Your Grace. It is a Minute by the Surveyor General
of this Colony onthe
the subject of a Coach Road through British
Territory between the Pacific Coast and Canada, comparing the
various passes through the Rocky Mountains and shewing the
extent of this Road already made in British Columbia, and what
remains to be done to complete it beyond the Eastern Boundary of
the Colony to the head of Steam Boat Navigation on the Saskatchewan.
2. I
the subject of a Coach Road through British
Territory between the Pacific Coast and Canada, comparing the
various passes through the Rocky Mountains and shewing the
extent of this Road already made in British Columbia, and what
remains to be done to complete it beyond the Eastern Boundary of
the Colony to the head of Steam Boat Navigation on the Saskatchewan.
3. Your Grace will see that on this side of the Rocky Mountains
we have been energetic in opening communications.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir F. Rogers
Information that may be useful hereafter—but nothing to be done on it.
Information that may be useful hereafter—but nothing to be done on it.
(Memo. Let Mr Dealtry see.)
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Map showing route of proposed coach road to Canada.
Minute of surveyor general not in file (see despatch 7718, Seymour
to Buckingham, Private, 5 June 1868).
Other documents included in the file
A.C. Cooke, War Office, to Cox, 7 July 1868, returning the
"British Columbia documents with many thanks."
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 41, 26 June 1868 stating interest in “the subject of a Coach Road through British territory between
the Pacific Coast and Canada” and informing Seymour that the surveyor general’s minute was sent to the Royal Geographical Society.
Adderley to Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society,
27 June 1868, forwarding copy of papers relative to the establishment
of a coach road from the Pacific coast to Canada.