Despatches : 1784-1867.

Call Number: HIL-MICL FC LPR .N4L5D4
Category: New Brunswick
Creator: New Brunswick. Lieutenant Governor.
Description: 35 microfilm textual records (66 volumes) ; 35 mm
Background:
            While the records in the Governor's and Lieutenant Governor's Offices of Upper Canada, Lower Canada and Prince Edward Island were transferred to the Governor General's Office at the time of Confederation, the New Brunswick records were sent to the Colonial Office in London by the Administrator, Charles Hastings Doyle. In 1921 the British Government returned the records to the Public Archives of Canada for preservation in Canada.
            
Contents:
            The Despatches are divided into four sections as follows:

Despatches Received - Despatches and enclosures received by the Lieutenant Governor or the Chief Administrator of the Colony from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Governor General of Canada, the British Minister at Washington, Governors and Lieutenant Governors, and other officials, both public and private, 1784-1865. Portions of this duplicate despatches found in Colonial Office records (CO 189), Entry Books. Despatches from Secretary of State to Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick are copies; remainder of records are originals. List of contents is available at start of each volume.
 
Despatches Sent - Letter Book and contemporary copies of numbered despatches and enclosures sent from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick to the officials as named above, 1784-1853.  Private and confidential correspondence has not been recorded. List of contents is included in each volume. Arrangement: despatches to secretary of state for colonies are usually found together at start of volumes, other correspondents come thereafter. Separate content list is available for each section. The originals of these despatches sent to Colonial Office are found in CO 188, New Brunswick, Original Correspondence.

Civil Government Letter Books -  Letter book copies of numbered and private or confidential despatches sent by lieutenant governor of New Brunswick. These despatches differ from the volumes of Despatches Sent in that they include private, confidential and secret despatches not meant for disclosure to the Legislature, 1861-1867. List of contents of volume 62 found at start of volume; no index to volume 63 but documents are arranged in chronological order. Library and Archives Canada volumes 60 and 61 (1824-1826) were not filmed and included herein, but the content duplicates that of volume 48 in Despatches Sent.

 Indexes - 

Volume 64, Subject and nominal indexes to despatches received and sent between April 1848 and July 1867.   Usually the despatch number, date, subject of the despatch, number of enclosures and page references are included. 

Volume 65, Schedule or register of despatches received from or sent to secretary of state for the colonies, 1861-1865 rom governor-in-chief of the Canadas, the British minister at Washington, governor of Newfoundland, lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and military officer commanding British forces.

Volume 66, Schedule or register of despatches received and sent by lieutenant governor of New Brunswick noting despatch date, number, date received and brief description of contents.
             
Originals: The original documents are held by Library and Archives Canada, in the Archives division.
Archival Ref. No.: LAC RG7-G-8-B.
Finding Aids:
            Online:

1. Despatches Received are available digitally via Canadiana Heritage, scanned from the microfilm copy.

2. Despatches Sent also available digitally via Canadiana Heritage, scanned from the microfilm copy.

The last reel of the series contains the registers for a number of volumes.

A list of contents can be found at the beginning or at the end of most volumes. The contents pages have been transcribed by staff at the Harriet Irving Library, University of New Brunswick and are available in print and as a PDF in the electronic find aids section.

A detailed inventory and a microfilm shelf list are available in print and as a PDF.
            
Electronic Finding Aid Record: NB Lieutenant Governor Despatches Shelf List.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume I.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume IV.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume III.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume IX.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume V.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume VI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume VII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXVIII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXVII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXVI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXV.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXIX.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXIV.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXIII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXXI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXX.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXVIII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXVII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXVI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXVI (1).pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXV.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXIX.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXIV.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXIII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XXI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XX.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XVIII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XVII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XVI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XLV.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XLIV.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XLIII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XLI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XLI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XL.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XIX.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XIV.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XIII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XII.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume XI.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume X.pdf
Despatches Received by the Lieutenant - Governor from the Secretary of State and other persons Volume VIII.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume II.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume III.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume IV.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume IX.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume V.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume VI.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume VII.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume VIII.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume X.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume XI.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume XII.pdf
Despatches Sent Volume XIII.pdf
Notes: Seven volumes of related material encompassing the years from 1823-1854 are found in National Archives of Canada RG 7, G7. Despatches from the Lieutenant Governor to the Governor, NAC reels C-15629, C-15630 and C-15631. The Loyalist Collection Call Number is MIC-Loyalist FC LPR .O5L5D4.

Researchers are advised that material related to the New Brunswick Despatches can be found in two series: Great Britain. Colonial Office 188: Correspondence and Great Britain. Colonial Office 189: Entry Books. this material is available in the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.

There are two copies of the New Brunswick Despatches in the Loyalist Collection.

Reel 35, Despatches Sent, 1852-1853, is missing (Feb. 2020).

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