This resource presents digitized and fully searchable online versions of the earliest surviving records of British government in Nova Scotia:
Nova Scotia Archives II
PDF download: A calendar of two letter-books and one commission-book in the possession of the government of Nova Scotia, 1713-1741 / edited by Archibald M. MacMechan. Halifax : Herald Printing House, 1900. 270 pages. Nova Scotia Archives Library F100 N85 v.2
Nova Scotia Archives III
Original Minutes of His Majesty's Council at Annapolis Royal, 1720-1739
PDF download: Original minutes of His Majesty's Council at Annapolis Royal, 1720-1739 / edited by Archibald M. MacMechan. Halifax : McAlpine Publishing Company Ltd., 1908. 408 pages. Nova Scotia Archives Library F100 N85 v.3
Nova Scotia Archives IV
Minutes of His Majesty's Council at Annapolis Royal, 1736-1749
PDF download: Minutes of His Majesty's Council at Annapolis Royal, 1736-1749 / edited by Charles Bruce Fergusson. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1967. 113 pages. Nova Scotia Archives Library F100 N85 v.4
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