Reference to Mi'kmaq of Pictou County in the Superintendent General of Indian Affair's Annual Report. Reported that the school had not been in operation as they could not hire a teacher, and also that while many lived at Fishers Grant, many others lived at various other places in Pictou County.
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The Indians of the County of Pictou possess a reserve at Fisher's Grant, otherwise known as Indian Cove. Only one- half of them, however, occupy it, the residue camp at various points.
"There is a school building on the reserve, but owing to a difficulty in obtaining the services of a teacher, the school has not been in operation for over two years.
These Indians follow agriculture but to a very limited extent. They depend for a subsistence mainly upon the sale of their manufactures and on fishing. No census of these Indians nor other statistics, for the year 1887, were received from the agent. The Indian population of the county was 192 in 1886" (xxxvii).
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Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the Year Ended 31st December 1887 (Ottawa: Dominion of Canada, 1888), xxvii.