Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Head, Edmund Walker to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 1 April 1865, CO 305:27, no. 3189, 267.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Head forwards a copy of a letter in which the HBC instructs its officers to comply with any requests for information regarding land
sales in Vancouver Island. Head assures Elliot that Head’s office will also comply, but that he cannot see
what information is sought for which is not already accessible to the Government in the Public Registry of the Colony.
Head to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)
Hudsons Bay House
April 1st 1865
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 31st of March I have to request that
you will inform Mr Cardwell that the letter of which a copy is
enclosed will be sent to the Company's Officers at Victoria by the
next Mail.
In the meantime if there is any information on the subject in this
Office which is desired the Governor andCommittee
Committee will be quite
ready to furnish it.
Committee will be quite
ready to furnish it.
It is difficult to see what information is sought for which is not
already accessible to the Government in the Public Registry of the
Colony.
Minutes by CO staff
Not passed on owing to the absence of necessary papers.
The papers in question having returned to day I send this to Mr
Murdoch together with others bearing on the subject of Land in V.C.I.
as directed by Minute of 8 Apl.
ABd
10 Apl
Mr Elliot
Mr Murdoch has seen this when writing the draft to Sir E. Head on the "Lowenburg" [Lowenberg] dispute.
Mr Murdoch has seen this when writing the draft to Sir E. Head on the "Lowenburg" [Lowenberg] dispute.
I think that this Letter shd be ackd & that we shd send
the Govr a copy
of it,
& of the C.O. letter to Sir Edmund of the 31st ulto.
& of the C.O. letter to Sir Edmund of the 31st ulto.
ABd
13 Apl
Sir F. Rogers
So proceed?
So proceed?
TFE
13 April
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Thomas Fraser to William Fraser Tolmie, 1 April
1865, instructing that any information in respect of land sales in
Vancouver Island while under the administration of the Company
"should be freely communicated to the Colonial Government if desired
by them."
