Note 997 — Chapter VII · (continued 2)

Compare the enumeration of MSS. on Acadia, as indexed in the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament, Toronto, 1858, p. 1451. There are preserved in the office of the registrar of the Province of Quebec ten volumes of MS. copies of documents relating to the history of Canada, covering many pertaining to Acadia. A list of their contents was printed in 1883, entitled Réponse à un ordre de la chambre, demandant copie de la liste des documents se rapportant à l’histoire du Canada, copiés et conservés au département du régistraire de la Province de Québec. J. Blanchet, Secrétaire. Cf. “Evangeline and the Archives of Nova Scotia,” in Trans. Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec, 1869-70.