Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Letter from P.M Holden, Kentville, to Charles Tupper, Provincial Secretary, requesting blankets for 12 large Mi'kmaq families at Aylesford and 12 families around Kentville and Dalhousie. Accoutn of Levi W. Eaton for clothing supplied to Peter Bass. Account of the Overseers of the Poor for the care of Nevill, Mary Ann and Ann Sarah Penall. Account of a doctor for medical care for Newel child on Black River Mountain. Other accounts mentioning John Peter, two Mi'kmaq women in District 10, and Mi'kmaq in Clare.
Date: 1865
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 140
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