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Title | Emigration, North America, 1842. Commissioners, Public Offices and A to Z |
Author | Villiers, Sir Edward |
Date | 21 Jan-26 Dec 1842 |
Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
Reference | CO 384/69 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence |
Description | Correspondence From the Colonial Land and Emigration Office and other government offices discussing pamphlets for emigrants, infringement of the Passengers' Act by shipping companies and general information on Canadian and American immigration. Also includes emigration petitions from individuals and societies, including those from Ireland and Scotland. |
Series Description | This series contains correspondence relating to British settlement in North America and Australasia, and to Indian indentured labour in the West Indies. Until 1857 it consists of domestic letters alone. The series then ceases and is not resumed until 1872. |
Biographical Note / History | A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities under the supervision of the secretary of state: the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia and the Agent General for Emigration. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 it was responsible only for controlling the importation of Indian labour into sugar-producing colonies. It was abolished in 1878 and an Emigration Department was then set up in the Colonial Office. This department was merged with the General Department in 1894, and abolished altogether in 1896. |
Theme(s) | Politics, Legislation and Governance; Motives for Emigration |
Country (from) | Great Britain; Ireland |
Country (to) | Canada; United States of America |
Places | Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Glasgow, Scotland; Galway, Ireland; Manchester, England |
Ports | Liverpool, England; New York City, United States |
Nationality | English; Irish; Scottish |
Ships | Borneo; Thompson; Foremor; Rose Bank; Louis; Oberon; Lively; Robert Alexander Park; Dumfriesshire; Meanwell; Bachelor; Nelson; Huron; Sterling; Josepha; Sophia; Wanderer; Astrea; Andrew White; Bruce; Mersey; Normandie; Counties of Arran; Watt |
People | Villiers, Sir Edward; Canning, George; Stephen, James; Earl of Derby (Smith-Stanley, Sir Edward) |
Keywords | emigration, family, soldier, Royal Navy, army, military, passenger, land grant, petition, farming, agriculture, transport, women, children, Napoleonic War, Chelsea Hospital, labourer, poverty, religion, Presbyterianism, shipwreck, propaganda, starvation |
Additional Information | This volume includes searchable printed documents. |
Language | English |
Printed Documents in this Volume |
Extract from the New York Sun Memorial Submitted to Her Majesty's Government, by a Committee, Appointed at a Meeting of Ministers, Elders, and Others, Members of The Church of Scotland, Held at Edinburgh, 12th August, 1840 Passengers Who Arrived it the United States, 1840 |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |