Telegram


Post Office Telegraphs
Downing Street Ldn


20 January 1871
Address to Queen for union with Canada on terms agreed upon passed Legislative Council unanimously today.
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Mr Herbert
This looks like getting to business.
We must wait for the despatches.
CC 26/1
Yes. I fear the Canadian Parliament will demur to the terms, & it is difficult to see how they can carry out the Railway which is the principal inducement to the Columbians.
RGWH Jan 26/71
FR 27/1
EHKH 28/1/71
K Jan 29/71
See subsequent 3-2275 Jan 22.71 forwarding copy of address.
Other documents included in the file
Manuscript image
Draft reply, Kimberley to Musgrave, No. 6, 26 January 1871.
Musgrave, Sir Anthony to Wodehouse, First Earl of Kimberley John 20 January 1871, CO 60:43, no. 899, 2. 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/B71001T.html.

Last modified: 2020-03-30 13:22:16 -0700 (Mon, 30 Mar 2020) (SVN revision: 4193)