Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Letter of James R. De Wolfe, MD, to W.A. Henry, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, asking aid for Newal Jeddore, a Mi'kmaq from Hants County who has been "maimed for life."
Date: 1851
Retrieval no.: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 46 number 81
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?