| Title |
Registers of Correspondence, Orders, Statistics, etc., and Miscellaneous Proceedings of Emigration Commissioners to Investigate Grievance about Crown Lands in Canada
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| Date |
27 Jul 1835 - 16 Jan 1837
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| Collection Name |
Colonial Office: Land and Emigration Commission, etc.
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| Description |
Report and minutes of investigations into the grievances of the people of Lower Canada, covering local government, the sale and ownership of land, the judiciary, and religious affairs. Includes dissenting remarks by Sir Charles Grey.
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| Series Description |
This series contains original correspondence, entry books and registers of the Agent General for Emigration, the South Australian Commissioners and the Land and Emigration Commission. Amongst the miscellaneous contents are registers of births and deaths of emigrants at sea 1854-1869, lists of ships chartered 1847-1875, registers of surgeons appointed 1854-1894, and volumes of The Colonial Gazette 1838-1842.
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| Biographical Note / History |
A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities which were both under the supervision of the Secretary of State. These were the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, established under an Act of 1834, and the Agent General for Emigration, appointed in 1837. The new commission dealt with grants of land, the outward movement of settlers, the administration of the Passengers' Acts of 1855 and 1863 and, from 1846 to 1859, the scrutiny of colonial legislation. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. In 1873 the administration of the Passengers' Acts was transferred to the Board of Trade. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 its only duties were the control of the importation of Indian indentured labour into sugar-producing colonies and it was abolished in 1878.
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| Theme(s) |
Politics, Legislation and Governance; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations
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| People |
Lord Glenelg (Grant, Charles); Gipps, Sir George; Lord Gosford (Acheson, Archibald)
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| Keywords |
religion, clergy, Catholicism, petition, judiciary, finance, money, tax, legislation, legislature, education, police, land, administration
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| Copyright |
Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK
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