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Hi Kelsey, If you decided to bring more of North America (Quebec, specifically) into the discussion, the Jesuits were excellent ('excellent') record-keepers, writing a ton of letters and reports sent back to France titled The Jesuit Relations. Might have to dig around to find out where the originals were kept and where they are now, but an interesting case study of colonial record-keeping if you decided to pursue it.

Unrelated, a quick editing suggestion. I'd revise the following section: "Another difficulty in nineteenth century colonial archives was that there simply were not trained archivists being sent to the colonies. Archival science was still in development in Europe itself, and colonial administrators tended to be mid- to low- level civil servants who did not necessarily have experience with record-keeping practices." It's very interesting and absolutely necessary discussing who was doing the record-keeping and what their background was. As we know, the archival profession looked very different in the 19th C. than today, and stating simultaneously that archival science was still in development but that having non-archival science-indoctrinated civil servants working in the colonies was an issue reads as a little contradictory and muddled. Was it really an issue then that these civil servants we're archivists in the sense of the word today? I would lead with your second sentence ("Archive science was still in development…") and develop your idea from there.