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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing the tract of land at Escasonich [Eskasoni] reserved for the Mi'kmaq there settled. Includes map of 2800 acres of reserve.
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No. 2
Escasonick Reserve.
Escasonick Indian Settlement
Road from Sydney to the Strait of Barra
North Shore of St. Andrews Channel
Sandy spit
Ronald McDonald
Sydney 5th Decb. 1832
x T. Crawley, S.G.C.B
Scale 60 chains to an Inch.
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Date: 1833
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 204-205
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