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Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide

Letter from Gesner to Howe, Provincial Secretary, regarding the application of Francis and Joseph Paul for land at Musquodoboit at the mouth of Ship Harbour Lake, also regarding the Mi'kmaq settlement at Ponhook, the Luxie family occupation of land on Shelburne River, the dam built on the reserve at Ingram's River, and the recommendation for surveys of all these areas.

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[Dr] Gesner
Indian reserves

[illegible] Mr Norris
[illegible] lay off 500 acres

[illegible] [?direct] [?Dep..hes]
[illegible] [?report] encroachments
May 9

I entirely approve of
the instructions [to] N [?Surveyor]
Sincerely
[illegible]
[?Arsenault]
May 10
[NP]

Date: 1848

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 47