JB/008/145/003

Click Here To Edit THE WELLAND CANAL. 3

Copy of a further Dispatch from the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

        York, Upper Canada, 28th Feb. 1828. 

SIR, THE President and Directors of the Welland Canal Company have, within these few days, made me acquainted with their intention of sending Mr. Merritt, their Managing Agent, to England, in the hope that, by a full and well authenticated explanation of the great importance of the work in which they are most zealously engaged, and of its present very advanced state, he may succeed in obtaining further assistance from His Majesty´s Goverment, and perhaps also in engaging the attention of capitalists to an undertaking of more than ordinary consequence to British interests in this part of the world.

Mr. Merritt was the original projector of this Canal, which is intended to con- nect the waters of Lakes Erie and Ontario by the navigation, suited to schooners of one hundred tons burthen, and has been most active and useful in superintending it, under the directions of the Board, which consists of a President and six other Directors.

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Date_1	1828-06-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	official aptitude
Folio number	145	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	canada / copies of two dispatches / upon the subject of the / welland canal
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	7
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(1-6)
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[star motif] c]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3249
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