[Extracts.] Captain Prevost to Mr. Campbell. Her Britannic Majesty’s Ship Satellite, Simiahmoo Bay, Gulf of Georgia, October 28, 1857. 4. By a careful consideration of the wording of the treaty,…
*No. 69.[108] Foreign Office, December 20, 1856. If, however, the commissioner of the United States will not adopt the line along Rosario Strait, and if, on a detailed and accurate…
[Extract.] Mr. Crampton to Mr. Buchanan. Washington, January 13, 1848. But in regard to this portion of the boundary line a preliminary question arises, which turns upon the interpretation of…
[Untitled] Extract from a letter of Sir J. Pelly, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, to the Earl of Aberdeen. [Precise date not stated, but from internal evidence certainly later…
Affidavit of W. H. Gray. In a conversation had with Dr. John McLaughlin, while he was in charge of the affairs of the Hudson Bay Company, (time I cannot state,…
No. 67. Hudson’s Bay House, February 7, 1838. My Lords: For many years previous to the grant of exclusive trade to the Hudson’s Bay Company, the trade of that coast…
[Untitled] [1860] Facts and Figures relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia. By J. Despard Pemberton, Surveyor-General of Vancouver Island. London, 1860. Steaming for the first time eastward into the…
No. 66. [1862] Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island. By Commander R. C. Mayne, R. N., F. R. G. S. London, 1862. The breadth of the Strait of…
No. 65. Extracts from the remarks of Mr. Daniel Webster in the Senate of the United States, March 30, 1846. The Government of the United States has never offered any…
No. 64. [undated] Extract of Voyage of Captain Vancouver. Soundings in some places only could be gained close to the shore; and in the middle no bottom had anywhere been…