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Show 63 Joint Stock ond Company's largest, making receipts assets. and 72 per cent of the s to emigrate ented with a was contribution oif petition urging explained sec- the British Mission impoverished British Mormons who her governm ent to Is1and.2 The help printed the poor among the copy of the circulated among all Members of Parliament with which the made in 1846 when Queen Victoriawas pre- Saints to settle in Vancouver was was Scottish.l Another attempt to aid the WiSrlfd Glasgow than 10 per cent more up The a petition note affixed that: In most schemes of emigration hitherto approved and aided by Government, great difficulty has been found to induce the people of this country to leave their native isle; but we are pre pared, and s hall guarantee, to s end twenty thousand people of all trades, and from most districts of Scotland, England, and Wales at once, or as soon as vessels can be found to convey them.3 Measuring 168 to the je ct s ' 1. feet and containing 13,000 signatures, Queen for the Relief by Emigration, cited that among other things Remove many poor and such of a unemployed the "Memorial Portion of Her Poor Sub- a settlement would: from Britain's working classes. lMillennial 2Ibid., "Memor:G:lto Star, VIII, 142. VIII, 149-55. This issue contains a copy of the complete the Queen. 3Letter, John February 8, 1847, Bowring, M. P., Millennial Star, IX, London, 74. to Thomas B'r o wn , |
