[240] Hay to Freeling, January 15, 1834, and accompanying papers (Can. Arch., Br. P.O. Transcripts, IV.).
[241] Journals of Assembly, Nova Scotia, 1836, App. 73.
[242] Journals of Assembly, Nova Scotia, 1839, App. 8.
[243] Letters from Young and Huntingdon to Baring, June 21, 1839, and accompanying papers (Can. Arch., Br. P.O. Transcripts, VIII.)
CHAPTER XI
Continuance of agitation in the Canadas for control of the post office—Much information obtained by committees of legislatures—Difficulty in giving effect to reforms.
The proposals of the British post office for removing the objections to the existing arrangements without endangering the efficiency of the colonial postal system had a very different reception in the assemblies of Upper and Lower Canada from that which they met with in the Maritime provinces.
Owing to a general indisposition on the part of the legislatures of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to push their contentions to extremes, and doubtless also, to the fortunate relationship between the deputy postmaster general of the Maritime provinces and Joseph Howe, the leader of the reform party in Nova Scotia, the post office had been subject to no authoritative criticism in those provinces up to the time when the plans of the British post office were laid before the legislatures.