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• Title:British Columbia : papers relative to the affairs of British Columbia.
  
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• Variant Title:Papers relative to the affairs of British Columbia
  Parliamentary papers, British Columbia
  
• Related Title:Further papers relative to the affairs of British Columbia.
  Papers relative to the affairs of British Columbia.
  
• Corporate Author/Creator:Great Britain. Colonial Office.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
  British Columbia. Governor (1858-1864 : Douglas)
  Great Britain. Colonial Office.
  Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode ... for H.M.S.O., 1859-1862.
  

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  • Call Number: FC3822.3 .G742 1859a
    
  • Number of Items:5
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:v. 1-4
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hudson's Bay Company--History--Sources.
  Gold mines and mining--British Columbia--History--Sources.
  British Columbia--History--Sources.
  British Columbia--Politics and government--1849-1871.
  
• Description:4 volumes (vii, 83; vii, 93; vi, 110; v, 80 pages) : maps ; 34 cm.
  
• Summary:Important documents concerning trade, gold mining, Crown lands, Indians, Hudson's Bay Company and the government of the colony. Presents the final stipulations for the transfer of British Columbia from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Crown. -- Streeter, 3419.
  
• Additional formats:Also available online.
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy in The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
  
• Notes:Parts 3-4 have title: British Columbia : further papers relative to the affairs of British Columbia.
  Volumes presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 18 February 1859, 12th August 1859, 1860, and March 1862.
  
• Contents:pt. 1. Copies of despatches from the secretary of state for the colonies [Baron Lytton] to the governor of British Columbia [James Douglas], and from the governor to the secretary of state relative to the government of the colony, also, copies of the act of Parliament to provide for the government of British Columbia, governor's commission and instructions, order in council to provide for the administration of justice, and instrument revoking so much of the crown grant of 30th May 1838 to the Hudson's Bay Company for exclusive trading with the Indians as relates to the territories comprised within the colony of British Columbia - pt. 2-4. Copies of despatches from the governor of British Columbia to the secretary of state for the colonies, and from the secretary of state to the governor, relative to the government of the colony.