12 September 2015

ILN Engraving : Showing the Canterbury Association ships in the East India Docks, London, 1851. Bangalore, Dominion, Duke of Portland, Lady Nugent, Midlothian and Canterbury,

There need be no hesitation in affirming, that colonisation, in the present state of the world, is the very best affair of business, in which the capital of an old and wealthy country can possibly engage.
John Stuart Mill

Edited by Edward Gibbon Wakefield

A view of the art of colonization

A view of the art of colonization

Further Study
Wakefield and the New Zealand Company
The female emigrants of the Canterbury Association and their role in Wakefield’s theory of systematic colonisation.
Canterbury Association Passenger Manifests
Wakefield Banking Kendal
Greenhill & Co
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Expert in Colonialism