Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Townsend, H. R. to Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes 7 March 1862, CO 60:14, no. 2391, 500.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Townsend to Newcastle
34 Hunter Street
Brunswick Square
March 7/62
Brunswick Square
My Lord Duke,
In consequence of a former application of mine for
information respecting British Columbia, your Grace directed a copy of a Proclamation regulating the disposal of Crown-land
there
to be
forwarded to me for my perusal, and which I duly returned.
forwarded to me for my perusal, and which I duly returned.
I am encouraged to enquire, whether, by your Grace's
directions, I can be furnished with, or allowed access to, any
information bearing on the agricultural conditions of British Columbia; which I am
anxious to obtain.
I may remark, with regard to the nature of the information I seek, that it is given
very fully respecting VanCouver Island in a report of an
official survey of land around the Nanaimo River, and in the Cowichan Valley in that Island, which was published in
October '59 by the Emigration Commissioners, by direction of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
official survey of land around the Nanaimo River, and in the Cowichan Valley in that Island, which was published in
October '59 by the Emigration Commissioners, by direction of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
I will not plead as my excuse for making this request, the
great public interest felt in British Columbia, for I am
individually interested in the colony, and am, moreover,
collecting information for publication respecting it. I may further plead the opinion
so frequently expressed by
Governor
Douglas in his published Despatches of the necessity which exists
for an emigration of agriculturists to the colony; which would of
course be likely to be forwarded by the publiation of information
bearing on the subject.
Governor
Douglas in his published Despatches of the necessity which exists
for an emigration of agriculturists to the colony; which would of
course be likely to be forwarded by the publiation of information
bearing on the subject.
Minutes by CO staff
Answer that the only reliable information which this Office
possesses on the subject of the Agricultural Capabilities of B. Columbia is contained in the Papers presented or to be shortly
presented to Parlt respecting that Colony.
ABd
10 March/62
Draft.
FR
10/3
