Nova Scotia Archives
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Letter from Commissioners of Indian Affairs to William Nixon reporting that as a result of a letter by Joseph Marshall and one by Nixon, that the Commissioners will be granting relief to the aged and infirm male Mi'kmaq and Mi'kmaq women with small children. Nixon is instructed to take note of the names of the recipients of this relief.
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Date: 1801
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 91
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?