Nova Scotia Archives
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Memo of Mi'kmaq reserves throughout Nova Scotia including Cape Breton.
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acres Locality Annapolis County 1000 on Bear River partly in Digby County 446 13 lots at Fairy Lake Digby County Part of the above 1000, acres King's County 1000 adjoining the Township of Horton- not surveyed- may be in Lunenburg County Hants County 1[8?]50 on five mile River near the Shubenacadie River 1000 on the western side of the Shubenacadie Great Lake Colchester County all sold by the Indians Cumberland County 1000 at [ Shinimica's?] River_ Pictou Co (none) Sydney Co 120 Head of South Branch of [Pompket?] Harbour 880 on the rear line of Campbell's Grant._ Guysborough County ( none) Cape Breton
Date: 1852
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 67
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