Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Freeland, Alex B. to Grey, George 15 April 1848, CO 305:1, no. 797, 463.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (3), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
Freeland writes to Grey, privately, to ask if, first, there are an obstacles to forming a Vancouver Island colony and, second, whether such obstacles could be removed through a combination
of legislation and Grey's support.
The minutes debate how best to respond to Freeland's enquiries.
This file encloses draft letter, from Grey to Freeland, advising that in the absence of a plan for colonizing Vancouver Island, Grey can give no answer.
Your Lordship being Her Most Gracious Majesty's Secretary of State
for the Colonies I beg to ask you
1Ansd 27 April / 48.
1st If there are any obstacles in the way of a Colony being
formed in Vancouvers Island.
2nd If such obstacles if there any Could be removed by
legislative enactment and if your Lordship would give
a Scheme for
Colonising that and the neighbouring Continent your powerful support.—
a Scheme for
Colonising that and the neighbouring Continent your powerful support.—An answer to these questions would oblige
Minutes by CO staff
(The papers have passed from me, & I am not precisely acquainted
with the position of the question relative to the Colonization
of Vancouver's Island)
ABd
20/4.
HM
Apl 20
Apr 20
I hardly know what Sir J. Pelly can say? I think it would be better to say that at present no such plan is matured?
I hardly know what Sir J. Pelly can say? I think it would be better to say that at present no such plan is matured?
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Colonial Office to Freeland, 27 April 1848, advising that in
the absence of a plan for colonizing Vancouver Island, Grey could not
answer his enquiries on the subject.
Footnotes
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