Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Western Tour, 1842 - Joseph Howe's report on tour of western NS Mi'kmaq reserves
Includes names and descriptions of some of the residents; also mentions off-reserve Mi'kmaq families at scattered settlements. Also includes various requests by Howe to others for surveys. Mentions Mi'kmaq burial ground on the East Side of Ponhook River. Mentions many Mi'kmaq names and surnames.
Date: 1842
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 71-107
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?