Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Leveson-Gower, Granville George to Seymour, Frederick 4 February 1869, NAC RG7:G8C/16, 44.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Granville acknowledges receiving Seymour’s despatch containing resolutions, advertisements, and an address, regarding British Columbia’s admission
into the Dominion of Canada, the desirability of immediately establishing Representative Institutions with responsible Government in the Colony, and the necessity for retrenchment in the Public Expenditure,sent from Yale and Victoria.
No. 10
4 February 1869
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.
125 of the 30th November enclosing a letter addressed to you by certain
delegates from a convention held at Yale enclosingcopies
copies of Resolutions
and an address on the subject of the admission of British Columbia into
the Dominion of Canada, the desirability of immediately establishing
Representative Institutions with responsible Government in the Colony,
and the necessity for retrenchment in the Public Expenditure.
copies of Resolutions
and an address on the subject of the admission of British Columbia into
the Dominion of Canada, the desirability of immediately establishing
Representative Institutions with responsible Government in the Colony,
and the necessity for retrenchment in the Public Expenditure.
Your despatch also encloses what appear to be certain
advertisements signed by persons in Victoria who declare that those
delegates have not in any way received authority to represent theiropinions
opinions or desires.
opinions or desires.