Wage labour
Agriculture
Resources
Education
School

1884
1884

Sir John A. MacDonald (Superintendent General of Indian Affairs)

Annual Report

The Indians whose reserve is situated on Fisher's Grant, near Pictou, compete with their white neighbours in almost every branch of labor; and the change that has occurred within the last ten or fifteen years in their mode of obtaining a subsistence is graphically described in the report of the Rev. R. Macdonald, the Indian Agent for the district, which will be found among the Appendices published herewith. The school on the reserve is managed with efficiency, but the irregular attendance of the pupils prevents much progress being made by them. These Indians cultivate but little land. They, however, increased the quantity of arable land on their reserve by breaking up new soil during the past year to the extent of two acres.

Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the Year Ended 31st December 1884 (Ottawa: Dominion of Canada, 1885), xxvii.