Colonial Despatches

Dundas spent two years during the mid 1840s as a Royal Navy officer in the Hudson's Bay Company territory on the Pacific Slope, based in Fort Vancouver. In 1848, after his return to London, he wrote a letter attacking the management of the HBC in the area, and claimed that the company's whole system … would be wholly, and totally inapplicable to the nursing of a young Colony.1

• 1. Dundas to Colonial Office, 30 May 1848, 1111, CO 305/1, 427.