Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide
Letter from William Smith reporting the conditions of Mi'kmaq families in Douglas.
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they will be able catch rabits make baskits or something to get them a subsistance.
I am Dear Sir yours with Esteem
W. Smith
Mich[ae]l Wallace Esquire
P.S. I will be carefull not to
let them have anything on
government act. but on real nessity
W. S.
Douglas no longer exists as a place name in Nova Scotia.
Date: 1801
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 79