Canada – Nova Scotia a remarkable and historically important archive of documents and plans detailing the lotting and settlement of remote parts of Nova Scotia particularly in Cape Dore, Advocate Harbour, Horton, Windsor, Falmouth and Halifax, between Joseph Gray, a merchant of Halifax, Nova Scotia and Thomas Harley of London. The archive comprises approx 14 original documents on vellum and paper, together with a series of approx six manuscript plans by Samuel Angell. The documents include the original grant dated 1783 given by John Parr, Governor and C.I.C. of the Province of Nova Scotia to Joseph Gray of 2,400 acres of land near Chevery Bay with all unopened mines excepting those of gold and silver, lead, copper and coals, forever, paying a Quit Rent of one farthing per acre. This has attached the Great Seal of the Province featuring the Royal Coat of Arms of George III to obverse and on the reverse a scene whereby a settler is seen negotiating with an Indian carrying beaver furs, with a beaver at their feet and in the background a sailing ship. This has been cracked but has been repaired. We have not been able to trace any record or example of this seal. The documents and plans relate to the ultimate demise of Joseph Gray. The first document relating to a failed enterprise jointly organised by Gray and Harley, shipping goods to the value of &pound400,000 in today’s money from Halifax to London. Harley had clearly financed the enterprise but when it failed called in his debt. Gray then travelled to London with his original documents and plans showing his land holdings in Nova Scotia in order to raise a mortgage to repay the debt. These plans were copied by the noted London Cartographer Samuel Angell and these are the plans in the present archive. Gray appeared then to travel back to Nova Scotia with his original documents – which appear now to have been lost or destroyed. The present archive therefore is perhaps the only extant documentation on the land holdings in this area in the late 18th c. There is minor rodent damage to three of the maps but otherwise the archive is in good order.