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Copy of a report of delegates appointed to attend an immigration conference at Ottawa in September 1871… – 31 January 1872. – 2 pp. of textual records. This document is no. 4 in a series of documents presented as a message from His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor to the New Brunswick House of Assembly on 13 March 1872. Among the provisions is one stating: “it was agreed…that the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars should be placed in the estimates for the purpose of encouraging Immigration to New Brunswick…”The report was signed by George L. Hatheway, William M. Kelly, and John Pickard, the New Brunswick delegates to the 1871 Dominion-Provincial Conference. New Brunswick relied upon this money to cover the costs of immigration schemes that were promoted in the early 1870s. The title continues “…presented to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor on the twentieth of February 1872. RS24-1872-872-me2 Legislative Assembly sessional records, PANB.
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