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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1888. Volume 1. Eastern, Australian and Miscellaneous Despatches |
| Date | 13 Jan 1888 - 13 Apr 1889 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript; Report |
| Reference | CO 384/168 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence |
| Description | Despatches dealing with Indian labour in the East Indies and Australia. Includes details of the appointment of various Immigration Agents, Mr Kimber's Colonisation Scheme in Canada for state-aided colonisation, concerns regarding sanitation on Sri Lankan estates, inducements for labourers to settle in Fiji and emigration of Indian labourers to Australia. |
| 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; Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations; Politics, Legislation and Governance; Remigration |
| Country (from) | India; Africa; China; Great Britain |
| Country (to) | Seychelles; Mauritius; Sri Lanka; Fiji; Malaysia; Australia; Canada; South Africa; St Helena; United States |
| Places | Brisbane, Queensland, Western Australia, Australia; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Hawaii, United States |
| Ports | Hong Kong, China; Calcutta, India; Adelaide, South Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Wellington, New Zealand; San Francisco, California, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; Natal, South Africa |
| Nationality | African; Chinese; Indian |
| Ships | Hereford |
| People | Lord Knutsford (Holland, Lord Henry Thurstan); Ashley, Evelyn; Thurston, John B |
| Keywords | legislation, government, Coolie, finance, remigration, wages, pension, labour, labourer, medical staff, agent, surgeon, marriage, plantation, health and sickness, death, crofter, shipping, emigration, accommodation, children, sugar, export, customs, poverty, religion, hospital, birth, illegitimacy, education, sanitation, crime, murder, execution, railway, fraud, cholera, disease |
| Language | English |
| Document(s) linked to |
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1888. Volume 2. Despatches: West Indies Emigration and Coolie Immigration, 1888. Volume 3. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Agents in India) Emigration and Coolie Immigration, 1888. Volume 4. Agents in India, Individuals and Surgeons |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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