Still, Anxious To Witness The Success Of A Project Which,
Energetically Managed, Is So Intrinsically Sound, I Refrained From
Writing To You To Decline The Responsibility, Hoping That The Original
Plan Of Delegation, Though Delayed, Would Be Carried Out.
That plan, I
must observe, involved not a mere commission of engineers to explore
the route for a telegraph
To Jasper House, as assumed in the
Secretary's letter of the 13th inst., but far wider objects, the
realization of which would, I venture to think, have given satisfaction
at home, and have dissipated many misconceptions, now existing,
inimical to the interests of the new proprietary.
"Your letter to me of the 6th July did not reach me till the 20th, and
in the meantime the newspaper notices in England led to many official
and unofficial inquiries from me, involving difficulty of answer. I
found, in fact, that the staff of the Hudson's Bay Company was quite at
fault, and that public men in Canada misunderstood the objects of the
new organization, for want of information very simple in its nature,
but which - except so far as the prospectus authorized me - I had no
right to supply.
"Several of the Hudson's Bay Company's chief factors and traders had,
it appeared, addressed a memorial to the then Governor and Committee,
some months ago, upon the rumoured sale of the property, and had been,
as stated to me, informed that no transfer was likely to take place, or
would in fact be undertaken without previous consultation; and yet
these gentlemen learnt for the first time from the public papers that
new arrangements had been made.
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