Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Ffennell, William Joshua to
Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 17 April 1861, CO 60:12, no. 3716, 282.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (4), Other documents (2).
Ffennell writes to the Colonial Office on the subject of salmon fisheries in British Columbia, and in response to an earlier request to do so, Ffennell lists several documents, which include Crown Land reports from Upper and Lower Canada
acts, essential to the guidance of a “State Regulation” for BC's fisheries.
The minutes ask to send on to Douglas the several documents recommended by Ffennell, and to include a recent British report on salmon.
The first of the documents included in the file is a draft letter from Newcastle to Douglas, which transmits Ffenell's memorandum on the salmon fisheries of BC; the second is a draft reply from Newcastle to Head, which requests that the reports referred to in Ffennell's letter be forwarded to Douglas.
Ffennell to Fortescue (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
Your letter of the 27th of March addressed to me here with
reference to the Fisheries of British Columbia, was not duly
forwarded, I have been back and forward to Ireland and thus the
delay in replying to it has occurred.
I would beg to refer to the following documents for the
information of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle—
Fishery Acts, Upper and Lower Canada, Printed in Quebec by Queens Printer.
Report
Report of Commissioners of Crown Lands of Canada for 1857.
Ditto ......................................................... 1858.
Ditto ......................................................... 1859.
(I have not yet seen Report 1860.)
Report
Report of Commissioners of Crown Lands of Canada for 1857.
Ditto ......................................................... 1858.
Ditto ......................................................... 1859.
(I have not yet seen Report 1860.)
These reports contain much valuable information with respect
to the Laws enacted for the protection of the Fisheries of Canada,
the state the fisheries had fallen into, and the means now in
operation for their regulation.
I believe the Salmon Fisheries of British Columbia far exceed
in extent and capabilities those of Canada, and that it would be
highly expedient to place themunder
under a system of State Regulation before abuses Creep in, with the view of inducing
private enterprise embarking in their Commercial development and at the same time
guarding against the establishment of abuses and unproductive practices, which must
tend ultimately to diminish materially if not totally to destroy a great natural source
of Wealth.
under a system of State Regulation before abuses Creep in, with the view of inducing
private enterprise embarking in their Commercial development and at the same time
guarding against the establishment of abuses and unproductive practices, which must
tend ultimately to diminish materially if not totally to destroy a great natural source
of Wealth.
The state of the Canadian Salmon Fisheries appears to furnish
an example fully supporting this view of the Question.
C. Fortescue Esq, M.P.
&c &c &c
&c &c &c
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
Frame a despatch to the Governor calling attention to this subject and send him the reports specified by Mr Ffennell if we possess them. If we have not got them in this Office ask the Governor of Canada to supply them.
Frame a despatch to the Governor calling attention to this subject and send him the reports specified by Mr Ffennell if we possess them. If we have not got them in this Office ask the Governor of Canada to supply them.
ABd
23 Apl
Mr Fortescue
If we are sending papers to British Columbia about the preservation of Salmon, ought we not to include the recent report of a Commission in this Country which has lately attracted so much attention?
If we are sending papers to British Columbia about the preservation of Salmon, ought we not to include the recent report of a Commission in this Country which has lately attracted so much attention?
TFE
23 April
Other documents included in the file
Minutes by CO staff
As we have no spare copies of the Canadian Reports
mentioned by Mr Ffennell, I annex a Dft to Sir E. Head to ask him to
send them to Gov. Douglas.
Other documents included in the file
*
Draft reply, Newcastle to Sir E. Head, Canada, No. 103, 10 May 1861,
requesting that the reports referred to in Ffennell's letter be forwarded
to Douglas.