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Letter from P. Wiswall to Rupert George reporting on the purchase of supplies for the Bear River community in the spring and that the remaining funds may be used to purchase items of common convenience in the fall. Notes that he and Abbe Sigogne will dedicate the new chapel on the reserve.
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P Wiswell
relative to the Indians £20
In H. M. Service
Sir Rupert D. George Barr.
Provincial Secretary
&c &c
Halifax
Date: 1831
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 180
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