Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester to
Douglas, Sir James 16 November 1860, LAC :, 361.
Abstract
Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester to
Douglas, Sir James 16 November 1860, LAC :, 361.
Despatch from London.
No. 61
Downing Street
16 November 1860
Sir,
With reference to your despatch No. 52 of the 12th of May last,
I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you the enclosed
copy of a letter from the Emigration Commissioners shewing the steps
that have been taken for sending out to British Columbia certain women
who had married or engaged to marry some of the Royal Engineers
stationed in
the Colony; as named in the list enclosed in Colonel
Moody's letter of the 29th of March; you will perceive that these
Women, with certain exceptions,
have proceeded to Vancouver Island in the
"Marcella" which left for the Colony on the 12th Instant.
the Colony; as named in the list enclosed in Colonel
Moody's letter of the 29th of March; you will perceive that these
Women, with certain exceptions,
have proceeded to Vancouver Island in the
"Marcella" which left for the Colony on the 12th Instant.
As the cost of these passages will be advanced from Imperial Funds,
I am desired to instruct you to take the necessary measures for
repayment of the amount in the manner authorized by the Secretary of
State's despatch of the
the 21st of July last, No. 43.
the 21st of July last, No. 43.