Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Kennedy, Arthur to
Carnarvon, Earl 20 October 1866, CO 305:29, no. 11379, 384.
Abstract
Kennedy, Arthur to
Carnarvon, Earl 20 October 1866, CO 305:29, no. 11379, 384.
Despatch to London.
Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (5), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
No. 81, Separate
20th October 1866
My Lord
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Cardwell's
Despatches named in the margin
having relation to the reconveyance of Vancouver Island by the
Hudson's Bay Company to Her Majesty and matters connected therewith.
No 39, 14th August 1865.
No 16, 26th April 1866.
No 16, 26th April 1866.
These Despatches with others bearing on the subject I submittedto
to a
Board of Officers consisting of the Colonial Secretary, the Acting
Attorney General, the Acting Surveyor General and the Registrar
General, and I have now the honor to transmit herewith their report.
to a
Board of Officers consisting of the Colonial Secretary, the Acting
Attorney General, the Acting Surveyor General and the Registrar
General, and I have now the honor to transmit herewith their report.
This report appears to me to have been conceived in a dispassionate
spirit and I think the suggestions it contains as coming from persons
who are dealing with matters within their own personal knowledge are
worthy of serious consideration.
The
The Hudson's Bay Company I think it may reasonably be hoped will not
offer opposition to these propositions in which the claims, real or
supposed, of the Crown advanced by the Colony against the Company are
brought within a narrow compass, and which will entail an
inconsiderable pecuniary sacrifice upon the Company.
I abstain from commenting in detail upon this report which I think
sufficiently exhaustiveof
of the matters treated of, and as to which I
shall probably be enabled at an early period to communicate with your
Lordship in England if required to do so.
of the matters treated of, and as to which I
shall probably be enabled at an early period to communicate with your
Lordship in England if required to do so.
Minutes by CO staff
Other documents included in the file
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
W.A.G. Young, T.L. Wood, B.W. Pearse and E.G. Alston to Kennedy,
8 October 1866, reporting on various aspects of the reconveyance of
Vancouver Island by the Hudson's Bay Company, with suggestions
(twenty-four pages).
Note on microfilm as follows: Folio 413 is a large map
unsuitable for filming on camera.
Memo, signed by Thomas Wood, Acting Attorney General, no
date, further commenting on the reconveyance of Vancouver Island to
the crown in relation to the sale of town lots by the company.
Memo, Young to Kennedy, 20 October 1865, remarking on certain
points in respect of land claims of the company
based on his "previous acquaintance with the whole case, acquired on
the spot by personal knowledge at the time of their occurrence of most
of the circumstances connected with it" (twenty-four pages).
Draft of an indenture providing for reconveyance of the island
to the crown, extensively edited, no signature, no date (thirteen
pages).
Minutes by CO staff
N.B. Copy sent to the Secy of the H.B. Compy on the 9 Jany
1867—with an intimation that they may see & take a copy of the Map.
1867—with an intimation that they may see & take a copy of the Map.
[JW?]
9 Jany 67
Other documents included in the file
Elliot to Emigration Commissioners, 4 December 1866, forwarding
copy of the despatch for suggestions and observations.