Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Memo relating to lots of land owned by Dr. James C. Cochran near Windsor on which Black people have been settling
Date: 22 March 1823
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 49
Questions to Consider
- When do you think the document was written?
- Who do you think wrote the document?
- Why do you think the document was written
- Who do you think received the document?
- Who do you think this document was written for?
- What information do you think this document provides? What do you think it tells us about the past?
- How do you think the document reflects the attitudes and values of the time period in which it was written?
- What impact do you think the document had at the time it was written?
- Do you think those were different impacts for different people?