Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning

Mr. Titus Smith's plan of the tract of 1696 acres surveyed for Black people at Preston

Date: 18 November 1835

Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 20

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?



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