1941- Annual Report for Department of Mines and Resources- Report of Indian Affairs Branch
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Indian Affairs was included under the banner of the Department of Mines and Resources in 1939, and the reports on various Indian agencies were included in the Department of Mines and Resources Annual Reports. Little specific information about individual communities exists in these reports, but the general info does hint at broader themes in the province. This specific report discusses different occupations and agriculture, and also the types of housing on reserves.
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NOVA SCOTIA Agencies. - There are nineteen Indian agencies in Nova Scotia; namely, Yarmouth, Digby, Shelburne, Lunenburg, Annapolis, Kings, Queens, Hants (Windsor), Hants (Shubenacadie), Halifax, Cumberland, Colchester, Pictou, Antigonish-Guysborough, Richmond, Inverness, Victoria, Cape Breton (Sydney), and Cape Breton (Eskasoni). Tribal Origin. - The Indians are of Algonkian stock and bear the distinctive name of Micmac. Occupations. - A certain amount of employment is available in lumber camps, sawmills, and as stevedores. Other Indians work for farmers, especially in the Annapolis Valley orchards. Seed, potatoes, and fertilizer are supplied but these Indians do not engage in large-scale farming. During the tourist season they act as canoemen and guides and they manufacture baskets, wooden handles, hockey sticks, butter tubs, churns, and barrels. Dwellings. - The homes in most of the reserves consist of one and one-half story frame buildings, fairly well finished on the outside.
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Canada, Department of Mines and Resources, Report of Indian Affairs Branch for the Fiscal Year ended March 31, 1940 (Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Department of Mines and Resources, pages 182 to 210) (Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier Printer to the King, 1942), 175.
