Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Petition of John Murphy, Deputy Surveyor of Inverness County, requesting payment for survey of Mi'kmaq land.
Date: 1856
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Indian Affairs Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 5 number 76
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?