Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Documents concerning land for Samuel, Francis and Goram Paul on behalf of eleven families of Mi'kmaq and 100 acres of land in Wentworth.
Microfilm 15698
Date: 1807
Retrieval no.: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Paul Samuel & 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?