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Memorandum on "A report of a committee of the Honorable the Privy Council for Canada, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General on the 19th May, 1881,--and generally in support of the recent petition of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to Her Majesty the Queen." De Cosmos, Amor, 1825-1897

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"Copy in the University of British Columbia's Special Collections has manuscript note signed: A. De Cosmos. De Cosmos refers to the memorandum in: British Columbia. Sessional papers, 1882, p. 341. Concerns a petition calling for an immediate start on railway construction between Nanaimo and Victoria, and between Port Moody and Yale, the regulations of the province's own customs and excise tariffs, and payment from the Dominion government to compensate for the delay in railway construction." -- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 68.

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Title	Memorandum on "A report of a committee of the Honorable the Privy Council for Canada, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General on the 19th May, 1881,--and generally in support of the recent petition of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to Her Majesty the Queen."
Creator	De Cosmos, Amor, 1825-1897
Publisher	Victoria : [publisher not identified]
Date Issued	1881
Description	"Copy in the University of British Columbia's Special Collections has manuscript note signed: A. De Cosmos. De Cosmos refers to the memorandum in: British Columbia. Sessional papers, 1882, p. 341. Concerns a petition calling for an immediate start on railway construction between Nanaimo and Victoria, and between Port Moody and Yale, the regulations of the province's own customs and excise tariffs, and payment from the Dominion government to compensate for the delay in railway construction." -- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 68.
Extent	44, [21] pages : map (folded), tables ; 26 cm
Subject	Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company; Railroads--British Columbia; British Columbia--Politics and government--1871-1903
Genre	Pamphlets
Type	Text
File Format	application/pdf
Language	English
Notes	Other Copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606319452
Identifier	spam16567; I-0596
Collection	British Columbia Historical Books Collection
Source	Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. spam16567
Date Available	2015-06-12
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Images provided for research and reference use only. For permission to publish, copy, or otherwise distribute these images please contact digital.initiatives@ubc.ca.
Catalogue Record	http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2750208
AIPUUID	cc93c5d5-d7d4-46dd-a0c4-a61b5641ea2e
DOI	10.14288/1.0221860
Aggregated Source Repository	CONTENTdm

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Images provided for research and reference use only. For permission to publish, copy, or otherwise distribute these images please contact digital.initiatives@ubc.ca.