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The Cork Daily Reporter on the Columbia Detachment

An 1858 newspaper clipping from The Cork Daily Reporter. The report discusses the departure of Royal Engineers and non-commissioned officers to Canada with their plans to begin development of a railway in British Columbia.

 

Courtesy of The British Newspaper Archive.

Updates on the Columbia Detachment of Royal Engineers were in multiple “Military and Naval” sections throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This clipping from September 25, 1858 is from a newspaper printed in Cork, Ireland.