Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Page from a letter book of Indian Affairs. The first letter is from William MacKay, Acting Commissioner of Crown Lands and Surveyor-General to Crawley requesting a correct plan of all lands reserved for Mi'kmaq in Cape Breton. The second letter is from John Whidden to MacKay directing him to give Joseph Howe's copies of lands reserved for Mi'kmaq in Cape Breton.
See also "Map of part of the Indian Lands in Nova Scotia, 1842" [Reference no. F/202 - Nova Scotia 1843] and Joseph Howe's Indian Affairs Notebooks [see Virtual Exhibit for images].
Date: 1843
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 189 1/2
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?