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acknowledge the receipt Address amended appointed April August Beer Houses begs British Chief Justice Cameron clause Colony Columbia Columbia Rediviva Committee communication copy Council adjourned Council then adjourned Court David Cameron day pursuant District Dixon Donald Fraser Esquimalt Excellency the Governor Excellency's following Members Governor and Council Governor being present Governor to Speaker Honble honor House of Assembly Hudson's Bay Company Indians inform His Excellency Ingraham J. D. Pemberton J. S. HELMCKEN J. W. McKay JAMES DOUGLAS John Tod Juan July Kennedy land last meeting Meares Meares's ment Minutes of last morning pursuant motion Nanaimo Nootka Nootka Sound o'clock p.m. passed pursuant to adjournment Queen Charlotte Islands read a second read a third road Roderick Finlayson Rodk Speaker and Gentlemen Speaker to Governor T. J. Skinner Thursday tion Town of Victoria Transmitting Tuesday Vancouver Island Vancouver's Island Victoria Bridge Victoria Harbour vizt voyage Washington Yates
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Page 49 - of Our said Council and Assembly or the major part of them respectively, shall have full power and authority to make, constitute, and ordain Laws. Statutes
Page 35 - constant fire was kept up as long as they could reach the natives with the cannon or small arms after which they chased them in their armed boats making the most dreadfull havock by killing all they came across this accounts for the story the natives told us when we were there
Page 37 - by the Lords of the Privy Council. • That if there be a new and uninhabited country found out by English subjects, as the law is the birthright of
Page 28 - the supposed straits of Juan de Fuca, said to be situated between 48° and 49° north latitude, and to lead to an opening through which the sloop Washington is reported to have passed in
Page 32 - the supposed straits of Juan de Fuca, said to be situated between 48° and 49' north latitude, and to lead to an opening through which the sloop Washington is reported to have passed in
Page 25 - of any person having ever performed such a voyage, but from the history of it published in England; and so far •were these gentlemen from being better acquainted with the discoveries of De Fuca or De Fonte than ourselves, that, from us, they expected much information as to the truth of such reports.
Page 38 - John Meares . . . dated 3Oth April, 1790, and presented to the House of Commons, May 13, 1790, containing every particular respecting the capture of the vessels in Nootka Sound. London, 1790.
Page 49 - Our heirs and successors, which said Laws. Statutes, and Ordinances are not to be repugnant but as near as may be
Page 15 - within the Great Northern Archipelago. The sea, also, which is seen to the East, is of great extent ; and it is from this stationary point, and the most Westerly parts of Hudson's Bay, that we form an estimate of the distance between them. The most easterly direction of the Washington's course is to the
Page 19 - a large opening extending to the eastward, the entrance of which appeared to be about four leagues wide and remained about that width as far as the eye could see, with a clear easterly horizon, which my husband immediately recognized as the long-lost Strait of Juan de Fuca and to which we gave the name of the original discoverer, my husband placing it on his chart.