Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Dundas, Frederick to Rogers, Frederic 12 May 1868, CO 60:34, no. 4970, 476.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (4), Other documents (2).
Dundas forwards
additional Papers in reference to the Application for a Grant of Land at Victoria, for Church Purposes by Members of the Church of Scotlandin British Columbia for Buckingham. Cox’s minute relates that the additional papers discuss why the Church of Scotland should receive a land grant on Vancouver Island, similar to the Church of England. Rogers minutes instructions regarding how to reply to Dundas and the Church of Scotland, relating why the government was obligated to grant land to the Church of England but is not obligated to grant land to the Church of Scotland. Included documents describe the grant of land to the Church of England on Vancouver Island and discuss the proposition for a grant of land to the Church of Scotland.
Dundas to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
24, Hanover Square
12th May 1868
Sir
I beg to forward for the further Consideration of the Duke of
Buckingham, additional Papers in reference to the Application
for a Grant of Land at Victoria, for Church Purposes by Members
of the Church of Scotland in that Colony.
You will oblige me by bringing the Subject under his Grace's
notice
at an early date.
at an early date.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir F. Rogers
See minutes on Land Bd 10805—on the claim of the Church of Scotland to a grant of Land in Vancouvers Island to put them on an equality with the Church of England who had recd one.
See minutes on Land Bd 10805—on the claim of the Church of Scotland to a grant of Land in Vancouvers Island to put them on an equality with the Church of England who had recd one.
In reply they were informed the latter was made by the Hudson's
Bay Company,
& that the Crown did not make such Grants.
& that the Crown did not make such Grants.
They now reply that the Grant was made after the 3rd Feb 1862
when the Crown resumed the Lands of the Company, including that
part subsequently granted to the Ch. of E. & that that Grant
tho' made in 1864 by the Company was made on the part of the
Crown—but it would appear that the Grant was merely to
complete an agreement made by the Company before 1862
to give this Land.
to give this Land.
CC
13 May
Answer to the above effect, viz that the Hudson B.C. before V.C.I.
was resumed by the Crown had come or was considered to have come
under an obligation to grant certain lands to the Church of
E.—and that the Crown permitted or directed the Compy to
fulfil their obligation just as it wd have permitted or directed
the Company to fulfil any other obligation, binding on its
lands, to any other person or body of persons—that if no such
obligation had existed in favour of the Ch. of E, the Crown
would not have sanctioned such a grant of land to the Ch of E,
and as no such obligation exists in favour of the Ch of Scotland
HG does not consider
the Crown at liberty to direct such a grant
to be made to the Church of Scotland.
the Crown at liberty to direct such a grant
to be made to the Church of Scotland.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
R. Wallace, Chairman, St. Andrew's Church, to Dundas, arguing
that the Church of Scotland should receive a grant of land
equal to the one made
by the Hudson's Bay Company to the Church of England, since that
grant had been made at the direction of the Crown.
W.A.G. Young, Colonial Secretary, to [?],
15 July 1862, forwarding sketch maps relating to the
reconveyance of Hudson's Bay Company lands to the Crown.
Copy of deed dated 3 February 1868 "in respect of Certain Lands
& Premises in Victoria District assigned by The Hudsons Bay
Coy to Her Majesty the Queen and confirming Sales by said
Compy previous to Jany lst A.D. 1862."
Copy of deed dated 6 May 1864 conveying grant of land to Church
of England from Hudson's Bay Company.
Other documents included in the file
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 31, 27 May 1868 transmitting correspondence between Dundas and the Colonial Office regarding the Church of Scotland’s application for a grant of land in British Columbia.