Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide
Letter from Chearnley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, regarding shipments of supplies of blankets and great coats to Mi'kmaq at Antigonish. Mentions census throughout NS.
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Halifax Novr 3 [18]60
Sir
I write to inform you that I have this day shipped through Mess [?Duffus] & Co. Eighty Blankets Twenty Great Coats for distribution amongst the Indians. I received this morn a list of the Indians in and about Antigonish which by that appear to be much more numerous than I had conceived there to be and the numbers in families are far beyond the average in other parts of the
Date: 1860
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 109