I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 142 of
the 23d of April last and I have to express my satisfaction at the
safe arrival in Esquimalt Harbour of the detachment of Royal Engineers destined
for service in BritishBritishColumbia.
Carnarvon, Earl to Douglas, Sir James 16 June 1859, LAC :, 157. 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/B597079.html.
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