Letter from Charles Ora Card, 7 March 1890
Ottawa
Sir
I have to call your attention
to the fact that information has
reached the Department from various
sources that the Mormon Settlers in the
North West Territories are practicing
Polygamy and unlawful cohabitation,
and there is likely to be a strong public
feeling against your people unless it
can be clearly established at once
that these statements are absolutely
untrue.
I may remind you, that when in
Ottawa you gave Sir John Macdonald
and the minister of the Interior ^the assurance^ that the
Mormons in coming to Canada understood
that they were coming to a country where
the Law did not permit polygamy, and
that they had no intention whatever
in breaking the Law in this respect.
