Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide
Letter from Chearnley to the Provincial Secretary regarding the report for the Lt. Gov. on expenditures of the Department of Indian Affairs, monies lent to Joseph Baptiste of Pomquet to allow him to build a house for his family, agriculture among the Mi'kmaq and the harassment of Mi'kmaq by whites on reserved land in Lunenburg.
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The Honble
The Provincial Secretary
&c &c &c
Province Building
Halifax N.S.
CIA.
Report
[written vertically]
1861
Indians
Copy with Voucher sent to
[?illegible] [Assembly?] March 4. 1861.
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 134 1/2