Catalogue description Colonial Office: Vancouver Island Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 305
Title: Colonial Office: Vancouver Island Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to Vancouver Island.
Date: 1846-1867
Arrangement:

Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter.
Related material:

For correspondence after 1871 see CO 42

For correspondence from 1867 to 1871 see CO 60
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 30 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

For registers to correspondence before 1853 see CO 328, after 1853 see CO 373. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714.

Administrative / biographical background:

Vancouver Island became a colony in 1849. In 1866 the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia united under the name of the latter. In 1871 British Columbia became a province of the Dominion of Canada.

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