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Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands
This is data of petitions made to government by individuals or groups of people seeking grants of Crown Land in early Nova Scotia, 1765-1800. The database contains 11,464 names of intending settlers, as identified in 1,890 surviving petitions; data fields also include year of each petition, location of land by county, brief description of land applied for, and notations concerning related documentation (e.g. warrants to survey, surveyor’s reports, licences to occupy, etc.).
Querying over HTTP
Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:
curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d@-<<EOF {"sql": " SELECT * FROM \"novascotia-ca/nova-scotia-commissioner-of-crown-lands-pfje-8tuj\".\"nova_scotia_commissioner_of_crown_lands\" LIMIT 100 "} EOF
See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.
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