Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Documents regarding land given to Scottish immigrant Peter McChesney in Pomquet in 1810. The land surveyed for him in 1820 was found to encroach on the Mi'kmaq reserve.
Microfilm 15743
Date: 1827
Retrieval no.: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - McDonald John & Others
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?