Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Invoice from William Smith to Michael Wallace for supplies provided for Mi'kmaq relief. Also includes letter from Smith to Wallace noting that once the Mi'kmaq recovered from whooping cough, he advised them where game was located and the Mi'kmaq then had a successful hunt, killing several bears, one moose and wildcats.
note: transcription publicly contributed - please contact us with comments, errors or omisions
Received payment of this account
for my Father. Halifax 24 Feby
1802-
Issac Smith
[written vertically left centre edge]
[illegible] [?Wallace]
for supplies to three
families of Indians
in 1801 and 1802
£3:1:6
[written vertically right bottom edge]
William Smiths
Account of supplys
to Indians - at Douglas
&c
£3..1..6
-------------
to 22nd February 1802
No 8.
Mentions names of heads of Mi'kmaq families that received relief. Signed at Douglas, which no longer exists as a place name.
Date: 1802
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 103
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?