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Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
Selections from the Reports of the Public Archives of Canada (1872-1972): 18th Century Isle Royale and Cape Breton Island
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Eric Krause
April, 2002
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Colonial
Office Series - C. O. 218 ~
1768 - 1842 (18th Century Selections)
Despatches from the Secretary of State, 1768-1811
February 19, 1768, London, Campbell to [Secretary of State], No 2. Transmits a memorial praying for power to assist settlement, particularly at Louisbourg, pp. 76-77
Enclosed: Memorial that instructions be given him to make grants of land to people who are actually resident and making improvements. People are residing in Cape Breton but will have to leave unless the prohibition against making grants there is removed.
Campbell to [Secretary of State]. Transmits a memorial asking that instructions be given him to make grants of land to people who are actually resident and making improvements, and especially for making grants in Cape Breton, where people are residing but cannot obtain land due to the prohibition against such grants.
Extracted from the Report of the Department of Public Archives for the Year 1948 (Ottawa: Edward Cloutier, 1948), pp. 181-252.
