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Account book

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Date:

c.1861-1884

Reference:

R13277-1-X-E, Volume number: 2

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3972512

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Michel Dokis and family fonds

Account book
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Date(s):

c.1861-1884

Place of creation:

Canada

Language of material:

English

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Account book using a unique pictographic system attributed to Michel l'Aigle Dokis. The primary entries in the account book record transactions made between 1861 and 1870. Supplementary notations, predominantly after 1879, indicate the settling of debts as late as August 1884 (page 306).

Few entries bear obvious dates. A few dates were recorded in English or French. Occasional explanatory comments were inscribed in Ojibwa, apparently to authorize a payment to a third party or to record the final settlement of the account.

Reflecting the established conventions for a ledger in a double-entry book-keeping system, each page is devoted to recording transactions with a single individual, or perhaps a family. However, rather than placing the balancing debit and credit entries on facing pages, left and right, here the record runs in parallel horizontal lines across a single page.

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[Consultation95 Open, no copying]

Volume [R13277]

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

2 File number 1

[Consultation 95 Open, no copying]

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