Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Heath, Townshend
to
Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart John Otway O'Conner
8 December 1852, CO 305:3, no. 11222, 534.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (1), Other documents (1).
Heath inquires as to where to find information related to the purchase of land on Vancouver Island.
The minutes suggest that Heath should apply to the HBC for information on the purchase of land on Vancouver Island.
This file encloses a reply to Heath, which directs him to the HBC for information on the purchase of land on Vancouver Island.
Heath to Under-Secretary of State
26 Clonteuf Crescent
Dublin
8th Decr 52
Dublin
Sir
May I beg you will have the goodness to inform me of the proper
official officer to whom I may apply for information relative to the
purchase of lands at a settlement in Van Couver's Island on the coast of
Oregon.
I should esteem it a favor also if you could send me, or direct my
attention
attention to any recent report on the present condition & prospects of that Island.
attention to any recent report on the present condition & prospects of that Island.
The Under Secretary of the Colonies
London
London
Minutes by CO staff
Inform the writer that he should apply to the Hudson's Bay Co
for the purchase of Land in VanC. Island, & acquaint him that Govt
has published no "recent" account of the condition of that settlement;
best that he may derive some general information concerning the Colony
from the P. Papers published in [blank].
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Colonial Office to Heath, 21 December 1852, directing him to
apply to the Hudson's Bay Company for the purchase of land and referring
him for information to "the Parliamentary Papers printed in 1848 and 1849."