Letter from Howe to Dr. Geddes of barrington replying to his letter of 28 March regarding the purchase of lands for the Mi'kmaq around Barrington.
Date: 1843
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 172-173
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Letter from William Nicholl of Hillsburgh [Hillsboro?] to Howe regarding accounts for expenditures on clearing land etc. at Bear River for the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1843
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 179-180
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Letter from Thomas Irwin of Charlottetown to Joseph Howe regarding the Mi'kmaq grammer textbook he wrote; appears to tie arguments regarding Mi'kmaq education to treaty rights. Includes Howe's letter of response noting that the treaties are preserved in Council Minutes; he argues that treaty rights may have been forfeited.
Date: 1843
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 188-194
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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing a tract of land on Wagmatcook River reserved for the use of the Mi'kmaq settled thereon. Includes map showing 4500 acres of reserve.
Date: 1843
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 198-199
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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing the settlement of the Malagawatch Mi'kmaq on the north-western side of the Great Lake Bras d'Or. Includes map showing c 1500 acres of reserve.
Date: 1833
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 200-201
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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing the settlement of the Chapel Island Mi'kmaq about six miles from St. Peter's. Includes map showing 1281 acres of reserve.
Date: 1833
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 202-203
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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing the tract of land at Escasonich [Eskasoni] reserved for the Mi'kmaq there settled. Includes map of 2800 acres of reserve.
Date: 1833
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 204-205
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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing the Whykokomach [Whycocomagh] Mi'kmaq settlement. Includes map showing 2047 acres of reserve.
Date: 1833
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 206-207
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Report by Thomas Crawley, Surveyor General of Cape Breton, describing "a Lot of Land laid out for Andrew Noel and Family" known as Indian Gardens. Includes map showing 50 acres of reserve.
Date: 1834
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 208-209
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Map showing lot no. 7 on the western bank of the southwest branch of the Marguerite [Margaree?] River of 1000 acres reserved for Mi'kmaq. Also shows Mi'kmaq presence on one of two islands in the River near the lot. No date or identification of surveyor.
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 211
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List of trespassers on a tract of land reserved for the Mi'kmaq at Wagmatcook in Cape Breton with the date of settlement of each and estimated extent of improvements to the 8th July 1837.
Date: 1837
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 212-213
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Report of William Faulkner, Deputy Surveyor, describing the Mi'kmaq reserve at Ingram River. Includes map of 330 acres of reserve.
Date: 1843
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 214-215
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Lots 31 and 32 (120 acres) in the township of Chester, are reserved for the aforementioned Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1793
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Baul John Thomas & Joseph
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Memorial of Solomon Geremy, a Mi'kmaq of the La Have tribe. Was settled with his family on an ungranted and uninhabited spot of land to the rear of the English settlement at La Have. Had made improvements. Memorial for a grant or a licence to the land. Noted: "Mr. Bulkeley: A Licence of Occupation."
Date: 1784
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Geremy Solomon
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Order from Surveyor General C. Morris to Charles Alexis. "Be so good to accommodate the Bearers for Grants near Cape Sable agreeable to their wishes." Granted "a licence for the Indian Bearers to occupy their lands and usual hunting grounds unmolested."
Date: 1786
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Indians at Cape Sable
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