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Call Number: MIC-Loyalist FC LPR .N6T6H3H3
Name: Nova Scotia. Town Records (Halifax).
Title: Papers Relating to the Town of Halifax : 1784-1826.
Description: 1 microfilm reel of textual records ; 35 mm.
Contents:
A volume of documents dealing with many issues that came before the civic administration of the town. Included are numerous memorials from government appointees, merchants, tradesmen, ship captains and private citizens; accounts of the Commissioners of Public Markets, Streets, etc.; drafts of bills; reports from committees; minutes of a Special Session of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace; lists of persons committed; letters; and many petitions from groups and individuals.
Originals: The original records are held by the Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
Other
Numbers:
PANS RG 1, vol. 411.
Finding
Aids:
The Table of Contents for the complete volume of Papers, 1754-1832, has been microfilmed at the beginning of the reel. A print copy of the Table of Contents is available.
Notes:
The first 10 documents, 1754-1779, and the last 39 documents, 1826-1832, were not microfilmed. A brief description of each item can be found in the Table of Contents.
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The Loyalist Collection is located within the Microforms Department at the Harriet Irving Library.

Last update: 2012/12
This document: http://www.lib.unb.ca/collections/loyalist/