A New Castle Did Not Respond to the Letter From Douglas

As the new governor of Vancouver Island Douglas believed this would lead to more Americans moving north of the Columbia River and grabbing land in the basin. He told the colonial office that the sanwan's would quote maintain a large population. In 1853 he went after an american rw Cussins who was working some land on Lopez Island, making fifteen hundred dollars in improvements. The terms laid down by douglas forced cussins to leave due to the terms laid out byDouglas. I'm hiring a pepper guy P.s. pepper. Let me know if you got a pepper guy.