<persName ref="prs:carnarvon"><surname>Carnarvon</surname>, </persName> to <persName ref="prs:douglas_j"><surname>Douglas</surname>, <forename>James</forename></persName> 11 April 1859, LAC RG7:G8C/7, 231. Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary) addressee Douglas

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Carnarvon, to Douglas, James 11 April 1859, LAC RG7:G8C/7, 231.The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.6, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B597049.html. LAC RG7:G8C/7 LAC RG7 G8C/7 231 49 B.C. 1859 rg7_g8c_07_00134r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Despatch from London.

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Carnarvon is pleased that Douglas addressed, at the House of Assembly, settler relations with First Nations . He strongly advises that measures of liberality and justice be taken during the surrender of the land that First Nations regard as their own. He also encourages the establishment of Schools of an industrial as well as an educational character for the Indians.

See V597049 for a letterbook copy of this document.

 Carnarvon,
Downing Street
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No. 49 LAC, RG7, G8C/7, p. 231 (CO 410/1, p. 195)
Downing Street
11 April 1859 Sir,

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your [Vancouver Island] despatch of the 9th of February No 4 transmitting copies of communications which have passed between you and the House of Assembly of Vancouver's Island between the 23d August and the 5th February last.

I am glad to perceive that you have directed the attention of the House to that interesting and important subject the relations of Her Majesty's Government and of the Colony to the Indian race. Proofs are unhappily still too frequent of the neglect which Indians experience when the White man obtains possession of their Country and their claims to consideration areforgotten forgotten at the moment when equity most demands that the hand of the protector should be extended to help them. In the case of the Indians of Vancouvers Island and British Columbia Her Majesty's Government earnestly wish that when the advancing requirements of Colonization press upon Lands occupied by Members of that race measures of liberality and justice may be adopted for compensating them for the surrender of the territorywhich which they have been taught to regard as their own. Especially I would enjoin upon you, and all in authority in both Colonies, the importance of establishing Schools of an industrial as well as an educational character for the Indians, whereby they may acquire the arts of civilized life which will enable them to support themselves, and not degenerate into the mere recipients of eleemosynary relief. It is to be hoped that bysuch such and other means, which your experience will enable you to devise, the Indians may in these, the most recent of the British Settlements, be treated in a manner worthy the beneficent rule of Our Gracious Sovereign.

I have the honor to be Sir Your Most obedient Humble Servant Carnarvon in the absence of Sir E.B. Lytton