Visions- Editor's Choice Pre-Confederation, 2nd ed.-Canadian Ed.- Nelson Education- ©2015
Visions- Editor's Choice Pre-Confederation, 2nd ed.-Canadian Ed.- Nelson Education- ©2015 - Re-examining Mi'kmaq - Acadian Relations William Wicken.
The Micmac women who married Acadian men taught the newcomers a great deal about plants that would be
good to eat.
Visions- Editor's Choice Pre-Confederation, 2nd ed.-Canadian Ed.-Nelson Education- ©2015-
The ambiguity of national categories made it imperative for many Acadians, particularly those with family ties to the Mi'kmaq, to stay away from their Algonkian neighbors if they wanted to
avoid reclassification. Officials in Nova Scotia, struggled to define the boundaries between the Mi'kmaq and the Acadian communities for the next eleven years.
Visions- Editor's Choice Pre-Confederation, 2nd ed.-Canadian Ed.- Nelson Education- ©2015 - Re-examining Mi'kmaq - Acadian Relations William Wicken- During the early years of the fur trade and immediately after a settlement was established by Isaac de Razilly at La Heve in 1632,
some Europeans had married Mi'kmaq women.
Most parish registers are not available for these communities for most of the seventeenth century.Registers kept by missionaries living among the Mi'kmaq such as those of the Abbes Gaulin, Courtin, Maillard, and Le Loutre have not
survived. The parish registers that do exist, do not record Mi'kmaq-Acadian marriages. #Metis #SangMele
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