CO staff discuss the death toll of the so-called “Indian Wars.”
File includes draft from Colonial Office to Shepherd, acknowledging receipt of the despatch; and an extract from despatch between Mactavish and HBC discussing death toll of the “Indian Wars.”
I have the honor to enclose for your information Extract of a
letter received by last mail from Dugald Mactavish Esqre, the
Hudson's Bay Companys Agent in Oregon, dated Vancouver, Washington
Territory, 5th April 1856, giving a further report of the progress of
the Indian war in that country.
I have the honor to be Sir
Your obedt humble Servant,
John Shepherd Govr
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Extract, Mactavish to Secretary of the Hudson's Bay
Company, 5 April 1856, reporting the death of company servant
James Sinclair and "eighteen other citizens" by a group of Indigenous peoples.
Shepherd, John to Labouchere, Henry 5 June 1856, CO 305:7, no. 5017, 358. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.2, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria,
B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/V565MI19.html.
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