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Title External Affairs. High Commissioner's Office, London. Series I. Department of Agriculture, Feb-June 1883
Author Lowe, John
Date Feb-Jun 1883
Document Type Correspondence
Reference R219-1-4-E Volume 7
Library / Archive Library and Archives Canada
Collection Name Canada House Correspondence
Description Letters relating to the accounts of agents, Monarch Line offering aid to immigrants arriving at New York, inspectors of pauper children, agreements with the Canada Shipping Company and White Cross Line, demand for labour, foot and mouth disease in livestock, Professor Tanner's emigration scheme, staff salaries, Hungarian migration and the supply of pamphlets offering advice to emigrants.
Series Description Canadian High Commission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Biographical Note / History The Canadian High Commission to Britain was established on 10 June 1880. (Statutes of Canada, 43 Victoria., C11, 1880) When Sir Alexander Galt assumed the position of High Commissioner in 1880, his role was quasi-diplomatic. His responsibility was to conduct the business of the Canadian government in Great Britain. This meant all manner of government activity which would concern Canada, including defence arrangements, trade, finance, immigration, justice, shipping, etc. He was assisted in this work by representatives of various Canadian Government departments. But from the very beginning the High Commissioner began to act in a generally representative capacity and to perform tasks which were comparable to a diplomatic officer. The powers of the High Commissioner grew and by the early years of the twentieth century Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner from 1896-1914,had assumed responsibility for the overwhelming majority of the powers and responsibilities of the Canadian government in Great Britain.(Canada, House of Commons Debates, 5 December 1912).
Theme(s) Motives for Emigration; Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences
Country (from) Great Britain; Hungary
Country (to) Canada
Places Ottawa, Ontario, Winnipeg, Manitoba, British Columbia, Canada
Ports New York, United States
Nationality English; Hungarian; European
Keywords agent, Monarch Line, poverty, child migration, pauper, Beaver Line, assisted emigration, disease, farming, livestock, White Cross Line, finance, wages
Language English
Document(s) linked to External Affairs. High Commissioner's Office, London. Series I. Department of Agriculture, July-Dec 1883
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