Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians

George Winder petitions the House of Assembly for aid to enlarge his house as an inn for those travelling between Dartmouth and Musquodoboit. Winder states that he has accommodated many of them, but needs the money to enlarge his house because of the increasing number of visitors. The petition was withdrawn; by 1838 Winder was working in Dartmouth as a labourer. (The "new road" was today's Highway No. 7.)

Date: 9 November 1829

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 57 number 82