Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning

Letter from Joseph Howe to Sir Rupert D. George, Provincial Secretary, with names of Black people at Preston willing to remove to any more desirable settlements
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Date: 12 June 1837

Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 48

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