HMS scoutScout
In August 1866, the HMS scoutScout ferried Governor Kennedy on a tour around Vancouver Island in an attempt to establish
peaceful relations with the First Nations groups on the west coast.1 The scoutScout once again served in this capacity in 1873, when the vessel conveyed Lieutenant-Governor
Trutch and Attorney General McCreight to the Skeena during the “Skeena War” in an
attempt to placate members of the Gitsegukla First Nation.2
- 1. Barry M. Gough, Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984), 123-124.
- 2. Ibid., 205.
Mentions of this vessel in the documents
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Romaine, William Govett to Adderley, C. B. 19 August 1868, CO 60:34, no. 9115, 47.
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The Colonial Despatches: Schedules
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Romaine, William Govett to Adderley, C. B. 5 November 1866, CO 305:30, no. 10500,
33.
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Vancouver Island: Chart of HMS Scout 9-12 August 1866 showing her grounding off Nootka
Island while 'conveying H.E. the Governor round the Id. to visit the Indian & other
settlements'.
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Schedules
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Seymour, Governor Frederick to Carnarvon, Earl 13 April 1867, CO 60:28, no. 5795,
72.
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Romaine, William Govett to Adderley, C. B. 14 November 1866, CO 305:30, no. 10903,
38.
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Kennedy, Arthur to Cardwell, Edward 2 May 1866, CO 305:28, no. 5768, 362.
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Carnarvon, Earl to Kennedy, Arthur 16 November 1866, NAC :, 479.
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Map gallery
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Schedules
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Kennedy, Arthur to Cardwell, Edward 17 May 1866, CO 305:28, no. 6400, 380.
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Kennedy, Arthur to Cardwell, Edward 21 August 1866, CO 305:29, no. 9586, 145.
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Hill, Frederic to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 26 July 1866, CO 305:30, no. 7160,
241.
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Pakenham, William to Adderley, C. B. 21 November 1866, CO 305:30, no. 11134, 128.