Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

14 February 1812

Petition of Isaac Smith and other inhabitants on the west side of Shubenacadie River, asking for £100, "which sum together with a spirited subscription which hath been made & will be obtained from the people with their statuate labour will enable the commissioner to compleat the Road, build a Bridge over Rines’s crick etc." Signed with 14 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 18 number 34