[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…
No. 63. [undated] Extract from the Instructions to Commander George Vancouver, by the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. [Vancouver’s Voyage,…
No. 62. Extracts of the report of the Voyage of de Eliza, forwarded December 29, 1791, from San Blas, by Juan Pantoja y Arriaga. From a certified copy of the…
[Untitled] *Extract from the statement of Uriah Nelson, made before the United States Consul, residing at the Port of Victoria, Vancouver Island, March 18, 1872, touching the navigation of the…