Petition of Greggs Joseph Farish of Yarmouth for payment for medical aid to sick and poor Mi'kmaq. Supporting document attached.
Date: 1847
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 83 number 102
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Petition from Thomas Belcher DeBrisay of Dartmouth for reimbursement of expenses for caring for Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1847
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 83 number 103
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Petition of Charles Tupper of Amherst for expenses for caring for a sick Mi'kmaq. Supporting documents attached.
Date: 1848
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 84 number 57
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Petition from Mi'kmaq living in Hants County for provisions.
Date: 1849
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 85 number 9
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Petition of the Overseers of the Poor for District no. 4 in Digby for expenses for the care of a female Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1853
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 85 number 97
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Petition of the Overseers of the Poor in Yarmouth for payment for expenses for several "transient paupers" and a Mi'kmaq man. Supporting documents attached.
Date: 1857
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 87 number 27
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Petition from the Overseers of the Poor for Clare for payment of the expenses of the maintenance of sick Mi'kmaq. Supporting documents attached.
Date: 1859
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 88 number 9
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Documents regarding roads at "Indian Islands and Eskasoni" in Cape Breton.
Date: 1844
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 108 number 63
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Documents regarding roads at "Indian settlement" in Queens County.
Date: 1852
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 110 number 195
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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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Petition of John Harris, James Archibald and William Logan of Pictou and Truro urging relief for the Mi'kmaq of River Philip and Tatamagouche.
Date: 1800
Reference: Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 7 number 4
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Petition of Peter Wilmot of River John for relief.
Date: 1820
Reference: Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 7 number 9
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Petition of Peter Tonay [Toney?] and Mi'kmaq near New Glasgow for relief.
Date: 1849
Reference: Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 7 number 36
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Petition of the Mi'kmaq residents of Chapel Island for better roads and a bridge to the chapel. Many signatures.
Date: 1865
Reference: Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 9 [Roads] number 67
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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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