Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning

Letter regarding black families in Preston and Hammonds Plains
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Date: 4 July 1837

Reference Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88

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