Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

Cape Horn

Cape Horn represents the southernmost point of the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago in southern Chile. Its first European name was Kaap Hoorn, Hoorn being the birthplace of Dutch navigator Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, who rounded it in 1616; the Horn's navigational treachery is legendary in sailing circles.1

1. Cape Horn, Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

Mentions of this place in the documents

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A. Campbell and Company to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 10 July 1858, CO 6:26, no. 6619, 261.
Berens, Henry Hulse to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 17 August 1858, CO 6:26, no. 8366, 485.
Begbie, Matthew Baillie to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 20 August 1858, CO 6:27, no. 8505, 126.
Cadell, Philip to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 23 August 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9921, 614.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 27 August 1858, CO 6:28, no. 8729, 363.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Carnarvon, Earl 28 August 1858, CO 6:28, no. 8728, 365.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 4 November 1858, CO 60:1, no. 534, 353.
Thomas, Nesac to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 23 November 1858, CO 60:2, no. 12090, 203.
[Sender not known.] to Merivale, Herman 28 April 1859, CO 60:5, no. 4406, 514.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 8 August 1859, CO 305:11, no. 9571, 62.
Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton and Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic to Merivale, Herman 24 November 1859, CO 305:12, no. 11630, 148.
Lugard, Sir Edward to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 15 September 1860, CO 60:9, no. 9021, 274.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 9 October 1860, CO 60:9, no. 9623, 234.
Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 14 November 1860, CO 60:9, no. 10674, 89.
Paget, Lord Clarence Edward to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 17 June 1861, CO 305:18, no. 5483, 7.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 14 July 1861, CO 305:17, no. 7946, 286.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 17 September 1861, CO 305:17, no. 10475, 455.
Berens, Henry Hulse to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 13 December 1861, CO 305:18, no. 11218, 280.
Kelly, William to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 1 March 1862, CO 60:14, no. 2390, 420.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 1 August 1862, CO 305:19, no. 9581, 234.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 15 January 1863, CO 305:20, no. 2060, 4.
Murray, James to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 12 March 1863, CO 305:21, no. 2433, 87.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 3 November 1863, CO 60:16, no. 12528, 244.
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 10 February 1864, CO 305:22, no. 2904, 12.
Dowsett, Charles Finch to Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 12 February 1864, CO 60:20, no. 1271, 304.
Booth, James to Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 6 January 1865, CO 305:27, no. 156, 66.
Cardwell, Edward to Kennedy, Arthur 10 January 1865, NAC RG7:G8C/5, 7.
Fane, W. D. to Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 24 August 1865, CO 305:27, no. 8257, 78.
Cardwell, Edward to Kennedy, Arthur 28 August 1865, NAC RG7:G8C/5, 188.
Pakenham, William to Adderley, Charles Bowyer 21 November 1866, CO 305:30, no. 11134, 128.
Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 26 April 1867, CO 60:30, no. 4105, 206.
Hills, George to Sandford, Francis Richard John 1 September 1869, CO 60:37, no. 9942, 496.