Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide
Peleg Wiswall
Digby County lawyer, legislator and judge, Peleg Wiswall (1763-1836), worked actively with the Abbé Jean-Mandé Sigogne during the 1820 and 30s, to establish an experimental Mi’kmaq settlement at Bear River; letters between Wiswall and Sigogne, correspondence with government officials in Halifax and financial accounts for the project, all provide significant information on development of the community.
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Document regarding Mi'kmaq, perhaps a draft for a letter or a speech. Begins "I speak to all Indians as to Brothers.." Incomplete.
Date: 1821
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 1
Letter from H.H. Cogswell to Mr. Sigogne regarding Pierre Bernard's application for land
Date: 1813
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 2
Letter from Abbe Sigogne to Judge Peleg Wiswall
Date: 1831
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 3
Letter from Abbe Sigogne to P. Wiswall
Date: 30 December 1833
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 4
Letter from Thomas C. Haliburton to Abbe Sigogne regarding the Mi'kmaq and schools
Date: 1827
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 5
Letter from Thomas C. Haliburton to Abbe Sigogne regarding the roads, the application to remove all test oaths from Roman Catholics, and the Mi'kmaq
Date: 1827
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 6
Letter from P. Wiswall and Abbe Sigogne regarding the account of the expenditures and a brief report on the construction of the chapel at the Mi'kmaq settlement on Bear River
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 7
Account of the expenditures for the construction of the chapel at the Mi'kmaq settlement on Bear River
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 8
List of materials, probably for construction of the chapel at the Mi'kmaq settlement on Bear River
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 9
Bill from Mr. Farnham to the Commissioners of the Indian Chapel
Date: 14 October 1831
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 10
Document by P.W. regarding the Mi'kmaq families who have settled at Bear River under the guidance of Andrew Meuse
Date: 12 February 1830
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 11
Plan of the Chapel at the Indian Settlement on Bear River
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 12
Bill from Stewart and Budd to Judge Wiswall regarding supplies for the chapel
Date: 1831
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 13
List of subscribers
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 14
List of subscriptions for the Mi'kmaq chapel at Bear River
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 15