Timber
Firewood
Woodlands
Fencing
Boundaries
Indian Reserve
Land
Resources
Logging

Letter states that Agent McDonald requested permission for Indians at Pictou Landing to buy 30 acres of land from a settler named Smith Copeland for $300 to add timber for fire and fencing to the reserve. Writer asks for McDonald's opinion, whether the reserve and the two others (islands A and B, which he states are vacated) requires more timber.

1883-04-20
1883-04-20

Superintendent General of Indian Affairs (correspondent)
Roderick McDonald (Indian Agent)

Personal correspondence

RG10, Vol. 7761, File 27058. http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c12050/1637?r=0&s=4

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