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- 1909-05-25
- Mclean asked Boyd to inspect proposed Foster land purchase, and also look into the Sproull matter. Reports that JD Mcleod was supposed to do so on December of 1908 but has not replied.
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- 1909-05-25
- Pedley reports that Boyd will look into Sproull complaint - Sproull complained that Indians from Fishers Grant were trespassing on his land as they had to pass through it to get to their new timber lot - and that Mcdonald will be informed of result.
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- 1909-07-20
- In connection to purchasing the Foster land for more timbered land for Fisher Grant Indians, and into the complaints of CK Sproull, this letter summarizes Boyd's report on these issues and asks for the department to make a decision into the Foster purchase.
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- 1909-07-27
- In connection to Sproull's offer to sell land to the Fishers Grant Indians, Mclean stated that no funds are available to make the exchange with Sproull. Mclean reported that the department should not provide timbered lands for the use of the Indians, and said that if the Indians believed the department will constantly buy them lands they will never learn how to conserve the wood.
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- 1909-08-06
- Reports that he gave the Indians at Pictou Landing no "intimation" that the land would be purchased for them, just provided the department with the info it requested.
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- 1909-11-05
- Request from the DIA to survey the new alloted land for the Fishers grant Indians.
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- 1909-11-19
- Dept. approves surveyor McKeen to do the work to survey the new addition to the Fishers Grant reserve.
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- 1910- Annual Report of Indian Agent J.D. McLeod
- annual Report from Indian Agent Rev. J.D. McLeod, outlining various aspects of living and working for the Mi’kmaq of Pictou County., MICMACS OF PICTOU COUNTY, NEW GLASGOW, April 16, 1910. FRANK PEDLEY, Esq., Deputy Supt. General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. SIR, - I have the honour to submit my annual report for the year ended March 31, 1910. Tribe or Nation. - All the Indians of this agency belong to the Micmac tribe. Reserve. - The Indians of this agency have two reserves. The larger reserve, known as the Fisher Grant reserve, is situated near the entrance of Pictou harbour. It has an area of 280 acres. It is mostly dry, sandy upland, with no dearth of stones. After being properly prepared, it yields fairly well in grain and root crops. The other reserve consists of a small island, near Merigomish, which the Indians leave during the winter months. Population. - This agency has a population of 174. Health and Sanitation. - The health of the Indians has been good on the whole. As a rule, consumption is the cause of death in persons of adult age. They are duly instructed in the methods of preventing infection, which they carry out as far as their means permit. Occupations. - The Indians of this agency are engaged in making baskets, butter-tubs, pick-handles and moccasins, in farming, fishing, and from time to time hire out as labourers, when opportunity occurs. Buildings. - The Indians possess a commodious church and a fairly good school-house. The private dwellings are mostly frame buildings. Stock. - A few horses and some hens are the only stock kept on the reserve. Farm Implements. - A few ploughs, harrows and wagons are owned by the Indians. Characteristics and Progress. - These Indians are a peaceful and law-abiding community. Their opportunities for advancement are few. They live for the day, contented with their lot. They are religious and God-fearing, and are not known to steal or be dishonest. Temperance and Morality. - The Indians of this agency are nearly all temperate and the great majority total abstainers. I have, & c., J.D. MACLEOD, Indian Agent. NOVA SCOTIA, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the Year Ended March 31 1910 (Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1910), 70-71.
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- 1910- Report on School at Indian Cove, Pictou County
- Report discussing the Day School at Indian Cove. Details on attendance and overall success of school are outlined., NOVA SCOTIA. Although the province of Nova Scotia has been settled and cultivated for very many years, the condition of the Indians in many districts is that of nomads. They have failed after all the years of their association with white people to reside permanently upon their reserves and make their living by agriculture. They are prone to waner about from place to place, selling their baskets or squatting in the vicinity of towns and doing odd jobs for the residents. These habits render it somewhat difficult to give all their children the benefits of day school education, but on several of the reserves successful day schools have been established, and the new methods adopted to increase the attendance and render it stable have had gratifying results at several of the schools. These methods will be further extended as time goes on, and where active and interested teachers are in control there is no doubt that many of the difficulties which now appear unsurmountable may be overcome. The actual poverty of the Indians is also a detrimental factor. The children are often without proper clothing to protect them from the inclemency of the winter weather, and in the future in deserving cases a quantity of clothing will be given sufficient to enable the children to attend school regularly. INDIAN COVE, PICTOU COUNTY. The Indian Cove school is at present conducted by Miss Gertrude McGirr. This band is quite civilized and a number of the older people on the reserve are able to ESKASONI, CAPE BRETON COUNTY. ... Number of children of school age 21 Number of pupils enrolled 20 Average attendance 8 Number of pupils enrolled 29 Number of pupils enrolled 29 Average attendance 17 read and write. The cause of education is advancing, but the circumstances which operate against a regular attendance also obtain on this reserve. The school-house on the reserve is used for divine worship on Sundays, and there is every reason to believe that the influence of the school is for good., Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the Year Ended March 31 1910 (Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1910), 276-277
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- 1910-03-17
- In connection to Boyd's report on the purchase of land for the Fishers Grant reserve, Mclean asks AJ boyd to inquire about the Sproull land size that would be exchanged with the Fishers Grant Indians.
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- 1910-03-26
- Boyd stated that the department was well advised to purchase Sproull's land, but argued that the department should not "hand over the property, which is a valuable one, to be indiscreminately exploited by the Indians." Stated that the land should be divided into lots and each Indian be given a lot for indivudal use. References that this is what they did at Millbrook, Colchester Co., and said that it had worked well there.
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- 1910-04-06
- In connection to the purchase of land for the Fishers Grant reserve, Boyd reported that the Sproull land is approx. 70 acres.