- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LPR .N4I5M3
- Category:
- New Brunswick
- Creator:
- New Brunswick. Indian Affairs.
- Material Description:
- 1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
- Background:
The Archives and Special Collections Department of the Harriet Irving Library, University of New Brunswick, holds a small but unique and very important collection of manuscripts concerning Indian Affairs in New Brunswick during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The material was collected for Lord Beaverbrook by R.A. Tweedie in 1956.
- Contents:
The collection contains 90 manuscripts arranged in chronological order with undated material at the end.
Documents include: a 1761 Treaty of Peace and Friendship; proclamations; certificates; letters; surveys; reports; petitions; appointments; lists of Indigenous names in various locations; and many other items.
Correspondents include: Hon. Jonathan Belcher, Governor Thomas Carleton, Sir Archibald Campbell, Jonathan Odell, John Bedell, James Horton, Major-General Smyth, Ward Chipman, Thomas Wetmore, James Gilmour, Hon. William F. Odell, Alexander Rankin, George Sproule, Thomas Baillie, Capt. Dugald Campbell, and others. Indigenous leaders/names include: Nicklaw Julian, Peter Pierre Jacques, Nicholas Julian, Louis Denny, Andrew Julian, Francis Nicholas, Barnaby Julian, Francis Joseph, Samuel Paul, John Baptist Pommeville, Francis Julian, Toma Francis, and others.
- Originals:
The original records are held by the University of New Brunswick Archives.
- Archival Ref. No.:
UNB MG H54
- Finding Aids:
Online: UNB Archives & Special Collection have made digital images and transcriptions of this record available.
A finding aid which lists the manuscripts in chronological order and includes a brief annotation for each item is available in print and as a PDF.
- PDF Finding Aid:
- NB Indian Affairs Name Index.pdf Document-List_Indian-Affairs_NB.pdf