Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Fraser, Thomas to Rogers, Frederic 22 December 1866, CO 60:26, no. 12157, 107.
Abstract
Fraser, Thomas to Rogers, Frederic 22 December 1866, CO 60:26, no. 12157, 107.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (6), Other documents (1).
Fraser to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Hudson's Bay House
London
Decr 22nd 1866
London
Sir,
By the direction of the Governor and Committee of the
Hudson's Bay Company I have the honour herewith to transmit
for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon, copy of a
letter to me from William F. Tolmie Esquire one of the
Company's Agents at Victoria, Vancouver Island, together
with copy of a correspondence which has lately taken place
betweenthe
the Honorable N. Birch administering the Government
of British Columbia and the Board of Management relative to the illicit
liquor traffic with Indians on the North West Coast of America.
the Honorable N. Birch administering the Government
of British Columbia and the Board of Management relative to the illicit
liquor traffic with Indians on the North West Coast of America.
Minutes by CO staff
See Minutes on that despatch.
TFE
26/12
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Copy, H.M. Ball, Colonial Secretary's Office, to Tolmie, 26 September
1866, disputing Roderick Finlayson's letter of 4 June and stating that
the governor had been successful in suppressing the liquor traffic.
Extract, Finlayson to Fraser, 4 June 1866,
complaining of unequal extraction of duties by the government
of the colony between the Hudson's Bay Company and her competitors.
