McNab to Lytton
Bank of British North America

America 1 30 November 1858
Sir,
The Directors of the Bank have received a communication from the Treasury under date 25th instant, 2 with reference to which I am directed to ask the favor of your granting an interview, on as early a day as may suit your convenience, to a deputation from their body.
I have etc.
C. McNab
Secy
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Elliot
This is an application for an interview.
VJ 1 Decr
The Treasury are the proper Department to advise upon such matters. They have given their opinion both to us and to the Banking Companys. The reason why that Company demands an interview most probably is that it is dissatisfied with the decision of the Treasury and would like something different. But itManuscript image seems to me very dangerous to be led into oral discussions on matters of this kind with eager speculators, and both in order to save Sir E. Lytton's time and also for the sake of security and precision in despatching the business, I should be inclined to suggest that the Company be courteously informed that Sir E. Lytton's time is at present so much occupied that it would be difficult for him to appoint an interview, and that he would feel obliged to them if they would explain in writing the subject which they wish him to consider.
TFE 2 Decr
Yes.
EBL 2 Decr
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Draft, Elliot to McNab, 4 December 1858, asking them to state in writing the subject they wished to discuss with Lytton.
Footnotes
  1. British investors founded the Bank of British North America in 1836; it was incorporated by royal charter in 1840. The Victoria branch was located on Yates Street; the manager was Fred. Whatley Wood, the accountant was Alexander Watson, the teller was E.M. Jackson, and the messenger was A. Wilson. When did it open in Victoria?? (See Colonist, 23 May 1859, and Edward Mallandaine, First Victoria Directory [Victoria: Edw. Mallandaine & Co., 1860].) The bank became the official bank for the city of Victoria and the colonial government of Vancouver Island. On 12 April 1918, the Bank of British North America was absorbed by the Bank of Montreal (Victoria Times, 12 April 1918). See Jackson, Banking, Mail, and Express Service in British North America.
  2. = Tre to BBNA, 25 Nov 58, extension of charter FIND?? Tre-BBNA, 25 Nov 58 re extension of charter.
People in this document

Elliot, Thomas Frederick

Jadis, Vane

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

McNab, C.

Yates, James

Places in this document

British Columbia

London

Vancouver Island

Victoria

McNab, C. to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 30 November 1858, CO 60:2, no. 12266, 206. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B585MI17.html.

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