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Petition from the Mi'kmaq at Whycocomagh regarding white men taking over their lands.
Date: 1855
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 15 number 9
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Petition of several inhabitants of Whycocomagh regarding lands granted to Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1857
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 16 number 47
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Petition from Pictou County to place Indian Point in the inalienable possession of the Pictou Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1847
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 45 number 57
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Petition of the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia from Peter Paul, one of the head men, regarding fishing rights.
Date: 1853
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 46 number 202
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Petition of Francis Paul, Goran [Goram?] Paul, Louis Paul and other Mi'kmaq chiefs regarding a land dispute.
Date: 1854
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 47 number 35
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Petition from Mi'kmaq of Queens County regarding amendments to the poor laws.
Date: 1859
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 49 number 26
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Petition from the inhabitants of Clements and Annapolis requesting measures be taken to prevent the firing of guns by the Mi'kmaq and the killing of porpoises at the Annapolis Gut during the herring fishing season.
Date: 1822
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 51 number 20-22
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Petition from St. Marys River, Guysborough County, for a law prohibiting the spearing of salmon in the river.
Date: 1844
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 53 number 14
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Petition of Daniel Mills and Henry B. Parker of Cornwallis, Kings County, concerning the Mi'kmaq settling on their land.
Date: 1859
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 55 number 5
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Petition of the Middle River Agricultural Society, Victoria County, concerning a survey of the Mi'kmaq reserve which shows certain lands occupied by white men to actually belong to the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1859
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 55 number 6
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Petition from Annapolis County concerning the Mi'kmaq shooting porpoises too close to the shore and allegedly hurting the herring fishery.
Date: 1861
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 55 No.28-29
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Petition of Francis Tomma, Head Chief of the Mi'kmaq, Louis Adelaide, Clement Bernard, Michael Christmas and other Mi'kmaq Chiefs regarding intrusions on their lands by white men and illegal land deals. Includes a letter by S. Fairbanks to those illegally occupying Mi'kmaq land.
Date: 1860
Reference: Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 3 number 162
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Treaty of 1725 for Ratification at Annapolis Royal
Date: 1725
Reference: Peace and Friendship Treaties Nova Scotia Archives O/S number 511
Signed in Boston, 15 December 1725, by J. Willard, Secretary of the General Court or Assembly of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and various leaders from First Nations in Nova Scotia and New England.
This is an original document. Other copies of the original can be found at the National Archives (London UK) in the Colonial Office Papers, CO 217, Vol. 4, No. 349.
The final clause of the treaty states that it "shall be ratified at Annapolis Royal," which took place on 4 June 1726. No copies of that ratification exist at the Nova Scotia Archives.
Transcript is from W. E. Daugherty, Maritime Indian treaties in historical perspective (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981); Treaty No. 239 in their numbered treaty series.
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1727 Ratification at Casco Bay of the Treaty of 1725
Date: 1727
Reference: Peace and Friendship Treaties Nova Scotia Archives O/S number 513
Signed at Casco Bay (near Portland, Maine), 25 July 1727, by the Lieutenant Governors of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay, Paul Mascarene (representing Nova Scotia), and representatives of the Arresaguntacook, Wawenock, Norridgewock, and Penobscot.
This is an original document.
A reproduction was included in Thomas B. Akins, editor, Selections from the public documents of the Province of Nova Scotia (Halifax, 1869).
Transcript published in Nathaniel Bouton, compiler and editor, Provincial papers, documents and records, relating to the Province of New Hampshire, from 1722-1737 (New Hampshire Historical Society, Vol. 4, 1870).
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Reproduction of 1727 Ratification at Casco Bay of the Treaty of 1725
Date: 1727
Reference: Peace and Friendship Treaties Nova Scotia Archives O/S number 513
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