Nova Scotia B - Minutes of Executive Councils ~ 
1720 - 1785 (18th Century Selections)

Note: 
The following sources specifically mention Cape Breton or Louisbourg. 
However, the entire series should be consulted 
since other references no doubt exist within 
the subject matter of some documents

Volume 1

Minutes of Executive Council, 1720-1732  

• August 12, 1725, Letter to Governor of Louisburg, p. 39

• August 12, 1725, H. Newton and Capt. John Bradstreet to deliver the letter to the Governor of Louisburg, pp. 39, 44

• August 31, 1725, Reply from the Governor of Louisburg, pp. 42, 72

• October 27, 1726, Letters from the Governor of Louisburg, p. 102

Volume 3

Minutes of the Executive Council, 1741-1746

• December 11, 1744, Trade with Louisburg, p. 112

• January 4, 1745, Trade with Louisburg, p. 123

• January 25, Trade at Louisburg, p. 138

• August 20, Trade to Louisburg, p. 202

Volume 4

Minutes of the Executive Council, 1747-1751

• March 15, 1747, Minutes of Council of war held at Louisburg, p. 6

Volume 5

Minutes of the Executive Council, 1752

• August 31, 1752, French at Louisburg enticing Acadians, p. 109

Volume 9

Minutes of the Executive Council, 1756-1759

• April 22, 1757, Defence of Louisburg, p. 77

Volume 13

Minutes of the Executive Council, 1764-1765

• July 2, 1765, Jury at Louisburg, p. 184

• September 26, 1765, Collectors at Louisburg to present their accounts, p. 205

• December 10, 1765, Cape Breton County, p. 220

Volume 14

Minutes of the Executive Council, 1766-1768

• July 5, 1766, Prosecutions to be made at Louisburg for provincial duties, p. 22

• February 9, 1767, Prosecutions for rum duties at Louisburg, p. 100

• February 29, 1768, Coal mines at Cape Breton, p. 190

• March 2, 1768, Coal mines at Cape Breton, p. 193

• April 30, 1768, J. Gethings to be a Justice of the Peace for Cape Breton, p. 201

• August 16, 1768, G. Cottnam to be magistrate for Cape Breton, p. 229

Volume 15

Minutes of the Executive Council, 1769-1774

• April 2, 1770, Cape Breton not to have a representative, p. 26

• April 14, Coal mines at Louisburg, p. 31

• November 29, 1773, Charge against L. Kavanagh to be investigated, p. 169

• Counter-charge brought by L. Kavanagh against Lt. G. Dawson, December 8, 1773, p. 171

• November 7, 1774, Licences for lands and houses at Cape Breton, p. 261

• Complaint against L. Kavanagh, p. 262

Volume 16

Minutes of the Executive Council, 1775

• May 6, 1775, Accounts to be brought from Louisbourg

Extracted from the Report of the Public Archives of  Canada for the Year 1949 (Ottawa: Edward Cloutier, 1950), pp. 361-449.