1940- Annual Report for Department of Mines and Resources- Report of Indian Affairs Branch

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1940- Annual Report for Department of Mines and Resources- Report of Indian Affairs Branch

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Titles	1940- Annual Report for Department of Mines and Resources- Report of Indian Affairs Branch: Nova Scotia Summary
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Type of Resource	text
Genre	Annual Report
URL	http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/first-nations/indian-affairs-annual-reports/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=3
Abstract	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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Note	NOVA SCOTIA Agencies. - There are nineteen Indian agencies in Nova Scotia, namely: Yarmouth, Digby, Shelburne, Lunenburg, Annapolis, Kings, Queens, Hants County (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. - The Indians find employment in lumber camps, sawmills or as stevedores. A number work for farmers, especially in the Annapolis Valley orchards. Generous amounts of seed, potatoes, and fertilizer are supplied, but few of the Indians engage in farming to any extent. During the tourist season they act as canoemen and guides and in all agencies they manufacture baskets, wooden handles, hockey sticks, butter tubs, churns, barrels, etc. In recent years there has been an increase in the demand for Indian handicraft. Dwellings. - The homes in most of the reserves consist of one and one-half story frame buildings, fairly well finished on the outside, but not on the inside.
Note	This same report is basically copied for several years in the 1940s.
Note	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, 1941), 195.