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Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
Catalogue reference: PC 2
Date: 1540-2022
This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of its proceedings, its orders, certain proclamations and the...
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Area now in Canada. 'Boundary Maps and Awards of British and American Commissioners...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1387
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- FO 925/1387
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1856-1874
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Area now in Canada. 'Boundary Maps and Awards of British and American Commissioners under the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854'. Record Book 1, a bound volume of charts of the Fishery Commission relating to rivers in the Maritime Provinces and Quebec. Thirty-two pages of manuscript charts, and one lithographed copy of John Dewe's and W B Snow's map of Prince Edward Island prepared for the Postmaster General. On alternate pages are printed extracts from the Commissioners' report signed at various dates between 1856 and 1860 by M H Perley, and John Hubbard, British and American Commissioners, which specify reserved fishing limits. An alphabetical index to rivers, arranged by provinces is at the front of the volume.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 55 cm x 40.5 cm
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- MS, on tracing cloth
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 213
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3817953/
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Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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