Nova Scotia Archives
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Letter from Chearnley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, regarding shipments of supplies of blankets and great coats to Mi'kmaq at Antigonish. Mentions census throughout NS.
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Halifax Novr 3 [18]60
Sir
I write to inform you that I have this day shipped through Mess [?Duffus] & Co. Eighty Blankets Twenty Great Coats for distribution amongst the Indians. I received this morn a list of the Indians in and about Antigonish which by that appear to be much more numerous than I had conceived there to be and the numbers in families are far beyond the average in other parts of the
Date: 1860
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 109
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