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Archival description
Series · 1725-1768
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of a 372-page index to crown land grants, 1718-1765. Index divided into five sections, each section having its own alphabetical arrangement, with names in chronological order: 1718-1749 (page 6), 1759-1760 (page 54), 1759-1763 (page 114), 1761-1763 (page 170) and 1763-1765 (page 222). Gives grantee's name, number of acres and district, date of grant and page in register.

Black Refugees
Series · 1790 - 1839
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to Black immigration and settlement in Nova Scotia from the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to the final emancipation of slaves in 1838.

Catalogues
Series · 1807 - 1882
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of lists, indexes and registers of documents, most of which are elsewhere in RG 1. Includes five catalogues prepared for office use: volumes 466 (1807), 466½; (ca. 1820-1834), 467 (1835), 467½; (1828) and 467¾; (1864); and two prepared by the Commissioner of Public Records: volumes 470-471. Volume 470 consists of calendars of thirty-eight volumes of public records: 334-338, 342, 344, 346-350, 354-355, 359, 361, 379, 385, 388, 409, 411-413, 419-422, 424, 426, 430-431, 433-434, 439-441 and 458-459. Volume 471 is a calendar of transcripts of documents (1654-1711) relating to the Acadians and received by the government of New Brunswick from the Ministry of Marine in Paris; translated into English and transcribed under the direction of James Hannay of Saint John.

Census and poll tax
RG 1 volumes 443-454 · Series · 1767-1862
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of Nova Scotia population returns (both statistical and nominal), 1767-1860; assessment rolls (poll or capitation tax), mainly 1790-1796; and returns of livestock, 1798-1817. No pre-1838 census, nor the 1851 census, survives intact. Includes, as volume 454, Report of the Secretary of the Board of Statistics on the Census of Nova Scotia, 1861 (Halifax: Queen's Printer, 1862), 298 pages.

Series · 1779 - 1873
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the Church of England (Anglican) in Nova Scotia, the Church of Scotland, school lands and glebes and the University of King's College. Includes register of lieutenant governor's inductions of Church of England clergy into parishes in Nova Scotia, 1852-1873 and contemporaneous copies of government correspondence and other printed and manuscript documents relating to the Church of England in the colonies, 1855-1865.

City of Halifax
Series · 1749 - 1869
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the town (1749-1841) and city (from 1841) of Halifax. Includes letters, memorials, petitions, accounts and records relating to lands, streets, public buildings, military property, companies, officials, police, bridewell and poorhouse (also Shubenacadie Canal papers, 1797-1858); the 1752 census; and reports of monthly meetings and visitations by the commissioners of the provincial penitentiary board to the Halifax city prison (Rockhead), 1844-1852.

Series · [Transcribed before 1886]
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of two volumes of transcripts of records relating to Acadians under British colonial government at Annapolis Royal, then Halifax.

Series · 1789 - 1917
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records of firewards and fire protection companies in Halifax. Includes minutes of meetings of firewards (fire wardens), 1804-1853; minute-books and other records of the Union [Fire] Engine Company, 1789-1807, 1826-1861; and the Union Fire Protection Company, 1861-1917; records of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, 1802-1821; and records of the Axe Fire Company, 1813-1861.

French documents
Series · Copied 1862-1884
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of copies of transcripts of records relating to Acadia while under the government of France. The first and second volumes consist chiefly of letters from the French governors and commandants to the minister of marine at Paris. The third is a supplemental volume, including correspondence of the priests in Acadia with the authorities at Quebec.

Government at Halifax
Series · 1748-1906, predominant 1749-1867
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the government of Nova Scotia, mainly after the transfer of the capital from Annapolis Royal to Halifax in July 1749 until Confederation in July 1867.

Series · 1744 - ?
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of original documents, copies of documents, and lists, indexes and calendars of documents. Includes a memorial (ca. 1748) on the preservation of Nova Scotia by William Bollan, agent for the province of Massachusetts Bay, addressed to Secretary of State the Duke of Bedford; a five-part catalogue of manuscript documents arranged under the direction of T.B. Akins, 1861; Akins's transcription of the "Mess Book" (passenger list of settlers who came to Chebucto with Governor Cornwalllis in June 1749); some 35 miscellaneous documents, 1744-1852, collected by Akins but never arranged or described (includes letters of General Amherst to Governor Lawrence, and of Colonel Mascarene from Annapolis Royal); a copy of Beamish Murdoch's History of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie annotated by William John Stirling; some 62 miscellaneous documents, 1751-1836, collected by Akins but never calendared (list accompanying); a collection of autographs of various Nova Scotia governors and officials; carbon copies of typewritten transcripts of mould-infested documents elsewhere in RG 1; an index to the secretary of state's dispatches, 1750-1845, prepared by T.B. Akins; a manuscript book written in Mi'kmaq; indexes to the journals of the House of Assembly, 1802-1826; rough copies of the minutes of Council, 1804-1815; and rules and orders of the House of Assembly, 1783-1821 (same book, in reverse, contains clerk and speaker's letter-book, 1819-1845).

Judicial court records
Series · 1749 - 1851
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records of the Supreme Court, Court of Chancery, County Court/Inferior Court of Common Pleas and Court of Vice-Admiralty. The Admiralty court records include letters of agency, 1776-1821; proceedings, 1749-1813; and lists of vessels captured, 1793-1818.

King's College, Windsor
Series · 1806 - 1881
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the University of King's College, especially its establishment, incorporation and proposed union with Dalhousie University in 1823-1824 and 1829-1836.

Series · 1751 - 1866
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the administration of Mi'kmaw affairs in Nova Scotia. Includes Joseph Howe's letter book as commissioner for Indian Affairs, 1841-1843.

Mines and minerals
Series · 1800 - 1868
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to mines (coal, gold, iron) and minerals (gold). Includes claims for mining leases, 1861-1865 and plans and surveys of mining areas in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, surveyed or granted between 1859 and 1863.

RG 1 volumes 186-214½ A-H · Series · 1749-1867
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of minutes of the Governor and Council meeting in their executive capacity. Includes minutes relating to the granting of land, May 1761-September 1763; minutes of the council of war, July-August 1762 (Volume 188A); Orders in Council relating to petitions for the granting of land, December 1846-January 1848; and minutes, orders and proceedings relative to the sale of intestate estates, 1761-1781 and 1826-1842.

Miscellaneous documents
Series · 1748-1870
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of manuscript documents of Nova Scotia, 1748-1870, a volume of transcripts from the Andrew Brown papers in the British Library (Volume 284), and a "ship expense book" containing accounts for outfitting four vessels employed on Government service from March 1777 to July 1780 (Volume 285). The Manuscript Documents consist of selections made by the commissioner of public records from files in the offices of the provincial secretary, treasurer, surveyor-general and commissioner of public works. They include records relating to agriculture, fisheries, shipping, prize courts, education (grammar schools and county academies), post offices, Indians, Blacks, voters' lists, the funded debt, customs and excise, revenue, immigration, grants of land, division of counties, public works - roads, bridges, railways, canals, harbours, wharves, lighthouses, and penitentiaries and jails; and records relating to Pictou Academy, 1829-1833 (Volume 282).

Series · 1773 - 1841
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of mainly of records relating to the government of Cape Breton as a colony separate from Nova Scotia, 1784-1820. Includes dispatches from the secretary of state to the lieutenant governor of Cape Breton; minutes of HM Council; duplicate or draft minutes of Council, minutes of the English Privy Council, royal warrants, petitions and memorials; correspondence of Lieutenant Governors DesBarres, Macarmick and others, copies of Council minutes (October 1787-October 1788), and a description of the Island of Cape Breton and its dependencies [1787?]; imperial orders in Council, royal instructions, parliamentary estimates and grants for the civil establishment, census returns and acts of parliament relating to Cape Breton; petitions, memorials, addresses, letters, depositions as to complaints, judicial proceedings, drafts of acts, lists of ordinances, records of escheat, road appropriations and tickets of location for land; and letter-book copies of letters from the provincial secretary (Sir Rupert D. George) to officials and others in Cape Breton, chiefly relating to land grants.

Public accounts
Series · 1758 - 1843
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of provincial treasurer's accounts. Includes a volume of accounts of impost, excise and lighthouse duties and fees, 1776-1780.

Quit rents
Series · 1772 - 1827
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records kept by the receiver general of quit rents in Nova Scotia.

Railway and telegraph papers
Series · 1835 - 1870
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the construction, maintenance and operations of early railways in Nova Scotia. Includes accounts of expenditure, Nova Scotia Railway, January 1856-September 1857.

River Saint John
Series · 1764 - 1809
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the first British settlements on the Saint John River and other parts of New Brunswick; also to laying out and building the town of Saint John (formerly Parrtown), 1783-1785.

Sable Island
Series · 1801-1865
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records Collection and consists of records relating to the government's humane establishment (life-saving station) on Sable Island and log books of the provincial revenue schooner Daring running between Sable Island and Halifax, August 1852-August 1862.