Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Shelbury to Merivale, Herman 16 August 1856, CO 305:6, no. 7399, 185.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1).
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often perpetuate a negative perspective of Indigenous Peoples and it is important
to look critically at these mentions. They sometimes use terminology that is now considered
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Shelbury writes to Merivale acknowledging, for Clarendon, the receipt of Merivale’s letter enclosing a despatch from Douglas regarding how Douglas assisted Stevens in the
Indian war.Shelbury requests that Merivale tell Labouchere that Douglas’s conduct has
been most judicious.
The minutes annex a draft for Douglas.
Shelbury to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 14th instant, Enclosing a copy of a despatch
from the Governor of Vancouver's Island, reporting the assistance which
he had afforded to Governor Stevens in the Indian war now raging in
American Oregon, and I am to request that you will state to Mr
Secretary Labouchere that the conduct of Governor Douglas appears to
have been most judicious.
Herman Merivale Esq.
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