Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Petition of Edwin Jeans, Surgeon and Health Officer at Sydney, Cape Breton, praying remuneration for vaccinating several Mi'kmaq families for small pox.
Date: 1830
Retrieval no.: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 42 number 1
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?