CHAPTER II. 

 ATLANTIC SHORE TO WATERSHED 



It is worthy of note that the Society jor ike 

 Propagation oj the Gospel, which has ever been 

 the generous benefactor of the work among the 

 white settlers of the Dominion, received its first 

 appeal from Canada in the interests of the Indians. 

 Colonel Nicholson laid before the Society an 

 address &quot;From the gentlemen that compose the 

 Council of War at Annapolis Royal in Nova 

 Scotia praying that ministers may be sent over 

 to convert the Indians in the said country.&quot; 

 The only recorded result occurred sixteen years 172? 

 later, when the Reverend Richard Watts, then 

 about to go to Annapolis as a Chaplain to the 

 forces, &quot;was granted 10 a year which was 

 doubled in 1731,&quot; as &quot;an allowance for teaching 

 the poor children there.&quot; 



The Indian population of the Maritime Maritime 

 Provinces and Quebec passed, early in the history 

 of New France, under the influence of the Roman Nova Scotia 

 Catholic Church, and in faithful allegiance to 

 that Communion they have, with few exceptions, 

 remained. Even in the early days, now under 

 review, those of Nova Scotia were described as 

 &quot;Bigoted papists and under the absolute dominion 

 of their priests.&quot; Recent government returns 

 show that out of a total Indian population of 



