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Catalogue description Colonial Office and Predecessors: Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 217 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Colonial Office and Predecessors: Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Original Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains original correspondence relating to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. |
| Date: | 1710-1867 |
| Related material: |
For correspondence after 1867 see CO 42 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English and French |
| Physical description: | 242 volume(s) |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
For registers to the correspondence before 1850 see CO 326, after 1850 see CO 362. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1713 the French colony of Acadia which included what is now Nova Scotia, was ceded to the British. The name Nova Scotia, which had been the name of a short lived earlier Scottish colony, was re-used from this time. However the French continued to hold Cape Breton Island until 1758. After Cape Breton passed to British rule, it was governed as part of Nova Scotia except for the period 1784 to 1820, when it had a separate government. In 1867 Nova Scotia became a province of the new Dominion of Canada. |
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