Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Addington, Henry Unwin
to
Hawes, Benjamin 19 April 1849, CO 305:2, no. 3325, 221.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Marginalia (1).
Addington transmits to Hawes, for the information of Grey, information on Vancouver Island and HBC settlements in Oregon Territory, from a copy of a letter from Captain Courtenay.
This file encloses a copy of extracts of a letter from Courtenay that describes his recent mission to Vancouver Island and the Pacific Northwest coast.
I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you, for the
information of Earl Grey, a copy of a letter from Her
Majesty's Consul
General at Woahoo1, containing information respecting Vancouver's Island,
and the settlements of the Hudsons Bay Company in Oregon.
Oct. 23/48
Benjamin Hawes Esqr M.S.
&c &c &c
&c &c &c
Minutes by CO staff
Put by, I think: But Capt. Courtenay's opinion of Vancouver's Island (near the end of his letter) is worth looking at.
HM
Apl 20
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Copy, William Miller to Addington, 23 October 1848, transmitting
extracts of a letter from Captain Courtenay, HMS Constance,
describing his recent mission to Vancouver Island (10 pages).
Footnotes
- "Woahoo" is, presumably, an obselete spelling for present-day "O'ahu," of the Hawai'ian Islands.