Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing the tract of land at Escasonich [Eskasoni] reserved for the Mi'kmaq there settled. Includes map of 2800 acres of reserve.
Date: 1833
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 204-205
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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing the Whykokomach [Whycocomagh] Mi'kmaq settlement. Includes map showing 2047 acres of reserve.
Date: 1833
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 206-207
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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing "a Lot of Land laid out for Andrew Noel and Family" known as Indian Gardens. Includes map showing 50 acres of reserve.
Date: 1834
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 208-209
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Map showing lot no. 7 on the western bank of the southwest branch of the Marguerite [Margaree?] River of 1000 acres reserved for Mi'kmaq. Also shows Mi'kmaq presence on one of two islands in the River near the lot. No date or identification of surveyor.
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 211
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List of trespassers on a tract of land reserved for the Mi'kmaq at Wagmatcook in Cape Breton with the date of settlement of each and estimated extent of improvements to the 8th July 1837.
Date: 1837
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 212-213
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Report of William Faulkner, Deputy Surveyor, describing the Mi'kmaq reserve at Ingram River. Includes map of 330 acres of reserve.
Date: 1843
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 214-215
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Letter from Thomas Irwin of Charlottetown to Joseph Howe arguing the education of the Mi'kmaq people in the Mi'kmaq language. Description of the beauty of the language.
Date: 1843
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 216-221
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Letter from Andrew Henderson of Albion Vale to Joseph Howe regarding the request of Charles Glode for assistance to build a house. Note on the bottom of the letter says Howe wrote to Henderson authorizing ten pounds to Glode to help in building a house.
Date: 1843
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 221-222
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Very faint handwritten note reading, "There are a great many other letters and 4 etc. to be copied in." No more such letters or 4 appear. Following page was left blank. No date.
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 223
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Micmac Nouns. A list of nouns in English with the Mi'kmaq translations. No date.
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 225
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Lots 31 and 32 (120 acres) in the township of Chester, are reserved for the aforementioned Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1793
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Baul John Thomas & Joseph
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Memorial of Solomon Geremy, a Mi'kmaq of the La Have tribe. Was settled with his family on an ungranted and uninhabited spot of land to the rear of the English settlement at La Have. Had made improvements. Memorial for a grant or a licence to the land. Noted: "Mr. Bulkeley: A Licence of Occupation."
Date: 1784
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Geremy Solomon
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Order from Surveyor General C. Morris to Charles Alexis. "Be so good to accommodate the Bearers for Grants near Cape Sable agreeable to their wishes." Granted "a licence for the Indian Bearers to occupy their lands and usual hunting grounds unmolested."
Date: 1786
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Indians at Cape Sable
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Memorial for land next to Paul the Indian on the River Stewiacke on a small brook called 'Mors an fultin's brook.'
Date: 1785
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - McCurdy William
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Regarding the land of Barnie McGie of the East River of Merigomish, some of which has been occupied by a Mi'kmaq clearing.
Date: 1784
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - McGie Barney
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