The Founders of Canterbury : Being Letters from the Late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the Late John Robert Godley, and to Other Well-Known Helpers in the Foundation of the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand

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Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862) was a controversial colonial advocate and political theorist. He formed the New Zealand Association in 1837 with the aim of creating a colony in the country. These letters, written between 1847 and 1850 and published in 1868, reveal Wakefield's involvement in the foundation of Canterbury.