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Title Canada Settlers, 1817. Volume 2. Public Offices
Date 4 Jan-29 Sep 1817
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/2
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence
Description Letters from prospective settlers to secure passage to Canada. Many are discharged soldiers. This volume also includes correspondence to and from the Transport Office regarding passages to Quebec for military families.
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) Motives for Emigration
Country (from) Great Britain; Ireland
Country (to) Canada
Places London, England; Quebec, Canada
Ports Dublin, Cork, Ireland; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Chatham, Deptford, England
Nationality English; Irish
Ships Sir George Prevost; Barrick; Vittoria; William; Triton; Maria; Montreal; Hope; Zephyr; Perseverance
People Lord Bathurst (Bathurst, Lord Henry)
Keywords emigration, family, soldier, Royal Navy, army, millitary, passenger, land grant, petition, provisions, farming, agriculture, transport, women, children
Language English
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