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Title: Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay d'Espoir
Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous. No. 54. Newfoundland

Author: William MacGregor

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COLONIAL REPORTS--MISCELLANEOUS.

No. 54.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

REPORT BY THE GOVERNOR ON A VISIT TO
THE MICMAC INDIANS AT BAY D'ESPOIR.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty.
_September, 1908._

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No. 54.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

REPORT BY THE GOVERNOR ON A VISIT TO THE MICMAC INDIANS AT BAY
D'ESPOIR.

THE GOVERNOR TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

Government House,
St. John's,
8th July, 1908.

MY LORD,

I have the honour to inform you that I left St. John's on the 28th May
to visit the settlement of the Micmac Indians at Bay d'Espoir, on the
south coast of this Island.

Bay d'Espoir is a long inlet of the sea, extending up country over a
score of miles. The district is hilly, and is covered by a forest of
rather small trees, spruce and birch, but further inland the hills are
generally bare. There are comparatively few European residents in this
bay.

2. The Micmac settlement is on a reservation situated on the eastern
side of the Conne arm of the bay, with a frontage to the water of 230
chains, with an average depth of about 30 chains. It is on the slope
of a wooded hill which is generally steep down to the sea,