Item MG 7A.1.1 - Essay on the Micmac Language, 1766.

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Essay on the Micmac Language, 1766.

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CA BI MG 7A.1-MG 7A.1.1

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  • 1934 (Creation)
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    Wood, Thomas

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4 cm of textual records

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(Jul 2. 1965)

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Rev. Thomas Wood became proficient in Mi'kmaq while serving as a missionary in Nova Scotia for the society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts. In preparing this work, he was able to use papers left by abbé Pierre Maillard, who had been a missionary to the Acadians and Mi'kmaq, 1735-1762. wood was also assisted by Jean-Baptist Roma, who had been Abbé Pierre Maillard's servant and was familiar with the abbe's handwriting.

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File consists of reproductions of an essay on the Mi'kmaw language, a letter to Archbishop of Canterbury and a Mi'kmaw pronunciation of the alphabet

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      Wood sent "An Essay towards Bringing the Savage Indian Mickmacks Language to be Learnt Grammatically" [sic] to King Geroge the third, 4 June 1776. This work has been identified as a copy of Maillards grammar, J.C. Webster Collection, Packets 8, 10, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John. "From: L.F.S. Upton, "Indians and Islanders: the Micmacs in colonial Prince Edward Island," Acadiensis (Fredericton), 6 (1976-77), no.1:p.26.

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