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• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) [Browse]

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Description: Letters and reports covering agreements made under the Empire Settlement Act with organisations such as Dr Barnardo's for the training for boys and girls, the Church Army, Cossar Boys' Training Farm, Canada Training Farm, Mr Fegan's Homes, the Newcastle Training Scheme for Boys, Church of England Council of Settlement, the Northumberland and Durham Oversea Settlement Committee, Waifs and Strays, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, British Dominions Emigration Society and various others. Includes a report of the Oversea Settlement Committee 1927, a copy of the Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 213, No. 14 and the draft Empire Settlement bill.

Notes

• The Canadian High Commission to Britain was established on 10 June 1880. (Statutes of Canada, 43 Victoria., C11, 1880) When Sir Alexander Galt assumed the position of High Commissioner in 1880, his role was quasi-diplomatic. His responsibility was to conduct the business of the Canadian government in Great Britain. This meant all manner of government activity which would concern Canada, including defence arrangements, trade, finance, immigration, justice, shipping, etc. He was assisted in this work by representatives of various Canadian Government departments. But from the very beginning the High Commissioner began to act in a generally representative capacity and to perform tasks which were comparable to a diplomatic officer. The powers of the High Commissioner grew and by the early years of the twentieth century Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner from 1896-1914,had assumed responsibility for the overwhelming majority of the powers and responsibilities of the Canadian government in Great Britain.(Canada, House of Commons Debates, 5 December 1912).
• AMDigital Reference: R219-38-5-E Volume 551, Folder 1.

Original version

Reproduction of: Overseas Settlement, 1928 Feb-Nov 1928.

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Libraries and Archives Canada

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