Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

11 December 1805

Petition of Hugh Graham and other inhabitants of Stewiacke, relating to use they have made of the two road grants already voted them, and asking for another to help them build a bridge over the river on the road leading to the main road. "The Distance between the last settler in Stewiack and the first settler in Pictou is about 10 or 12 miles – We make this Statement to show that our leading Road may in a future day accommodate a great many besides the Inhabitants of this Place. – For a Road from the Head of this Settlement on the Middle River of Pictou to the Head of this Settlement would be in a much more direct Course for Halifax than to go by Truro as is necessary in the present time"…46 names signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 12 number 28