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Colonial Office and Predecessors: Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 217
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CO 217
This series contains original correspondence relating to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton.
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CO 217
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and Predecessors: Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1710-1867
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence relating to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For correspondence after 1867 see CO 42
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English and French
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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242 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers to the correspondence before 1850 see CO 326, after 1850 see CO 362. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In 1713 the French colony of Acadia which included what is now Nova Scotia, was ceded to the British. The name Nova Scotia, which had been the name of a short lived earlier Scottish colony, was re-used from this time. However the French continued to hold Cape Breton Island until 1758. After Cape Breton passed to British rule, it was governed as part of Nova Scotia except for the period 1784 to 1820, when it had a separate government. In 1867 Nova Scotia became a province of the new Dominion of Canada.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4408/
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