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Colonial Office and Predecessors: New Brunswick Original Correspondence
Description and record details
| Reference | CO 188 |
|---|---|
| Title | Colonial Office and Predecessors: New Brunswick Original Correspondence |
| Date | 1784-1867 |
| Description | This series contains original correspondence relating to New Brunswick. |
| Arrangement | Bound volumes arranged chronologically and generally within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the Governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations), and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). With a small number of case volumes. Each volume with a contents list, or a précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. |
| Related material |
For correspondence after 1867 see CO 42 |
| Separated material |
This series formerly included the correspondence of the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick between 1784 and 1867. These pieces (CO 188/148-206) were transferred to the National Archives of Canada in 1922. |
| Held by | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status | Public Record(s) |
| Language |
English |
| Physical description | 206 volume(s) |
| Access conditions | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Unpublished finding aids |
For registers of correspondence see CO 326 before 1850, CO 358 after 1850. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714. |
| Administrative/ biographical background | New Brunswick was part of the old French Province of Acadia and was ceded to Britain in 1713. It was first colonised by British subjects from New England in 1761, and in 1783 it received a large body of loyalists from the thirteen colonies, and was separated from Nova Scotia, of which it had been part. In 1867 it became a province of the new Dominion of Canada. |
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