Report Of The Delegates Appointed To Negotiate For The Acquisition Of Rupert's Land And The North-west Territory: Laid Before Parliament By Command Of His Excellency The Governor General - Couverture rigide
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Land and by snotlier Order in Council of the same date, we were authorized to arrange for the admisirion of the North West Territory into Union with Canada, either with or without Eupert s Land, as may be found practicable and expedient. We proceeded at once to execute the important mission confided to us, and on presenting ourselves at the Colonial Office were invited by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, to visit him at Stowe, for the purpose of discussing freely and fully the numerous and difficult questions which were involved in the transfer of these great Territories to Canada. We found that His Grace had already made some progress in the preliminaries of a negotiation (under the A ct 31 and 32 Vic. Can. 105) with the Hudson s Bay Company for the surrender to Her Majesty of the territorial and political rights which they claimed in Rupert s Land. We objected very earnestly to some of the demands of the Company which were communicated to us by His Grace, but after much consideration and important modifications of the Company sdemands, we agreed that if they would surrender the Territory on the conditions which His Grace proposed, wc would recommend the acceptance of these conditions by the Canadian Government. The Duke of Buckingham sproposals will be found in the letter of Mr. A dderly, of the 1st December, 1868, addressed to the Governor of the Hudson s Bay Company. Considerable delay in the negotiations was occasioned by the retirement from office of the Duke of Buckingham and his colleagues, and also by the resignation of Lord IC imberly, the then Governor of the Company. On the 18th January 1869, Earl Granville, who had acceded to office as Secretary of State for the Colciiics, transmitted to us the reply of the Company, declining the proposals of the Duke of Buckingham. His Lordship subsequently
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