#Metis #EasternMetis Literature Review of Identified Metis-Communities in Nova Scotia prepared by Public History Inc for the Federal Interlocutor for Metis and NonStatus Indians Division of the Privy Council And The Nova Scotia Office of Aboriginal Affairs. 
The research focused on the regions of Nova Scotia where there are incidents of individuals or groups claiming to be or represent Metis.
Metis in Nova Scotia - Research Summary - We found reference to at least two historic metis communities in Nova Scotia. Le Heve (LaHave) and Mirligueche (Lunenburg)
Acadia- the geography of early Nova Scotia to 1760 - Andrew Hill Clark - La Have- Metis.
National Museums of Canada, 1981 - Dossier - Musée National de L'homme, Service Canadien D'ethnologie - Some communities such as the La-Have - Mirligueche region had large metis concentrations.
Acadie- reconstitution d'un chapitre perdu de l'histoire d'Amérique-by Richard, Edouard 1916- but it rather consisted of a few metis families spread out along the coasts, particularly at La Heve.
Fortune & LaTour- The Civil War in Acadia.- He held the posts of Pentagouet and Cape Sable, the Metis settlement at La Have and the village of Port Royal.
UNE COLONIE FEODALE- the University of Michigan - 1889 - The agglomeration of this group of metis around La Heve suggests that they originate from the time when the main establishment was in La Heve.
Daniels Decision Sec 17 -There is no one exclusive Metis People in Canada, anymore than there is no one exclusive Indian people in Canada. The Metis of eastern Canada and northern Canada are as distinct from Red River Metis as any two peoples can be. As early as 1650, a distinct
Metis community developed in LeHeve, NS, separate from Acadians and Micmac Indians. All Metis are aboriginal people, all have Indian ancestry.Something of a Peasant Paradise- Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais,1604-1755-Gregory M.W. Kennedy-MQUP, 2014-La Heve -
French leaders married aboriginal women-resulting Metis families played an important role. #EasternMetis
Early Acadia - by 1631 Acadia has been returned to French Control and in 1632 the Compagnie de la Nouvelle France (Company of New France) sent settlers to the site of Le Heve in an attempt to colonize the area.
metis in Acadia - Champlain's 1613 map of Port de Le Heve indicates that this area was also a significant native settlement and other sources note that for many years it was also the site of a metis community.
Several authors have noted an interdependence between early Acadians and Mi'kmaq's especially in places like Le Heve and Mirligueche. The sources confirm that a number of early settlers took Native wives.
As Geoffrey Plank points out, the inhabitants of Acadia did not adopt the term metis to describe themselves, although as Clark notes, the existence of a large half-breed community at Mirligueche for several years suggests some identification of this group as being separate from
either Acadian or Mi'kmaq.
The Metis in SouthWestern Nova Scotia - William Wicken - Oct 2004 - Wicken Report - these cases illustrate being metis was more than just a question of self-identity or of material and social conditions. People were metis because they were perceived to be by society.
By the 18th century, opposition to intermarriage between the settlers and the Natives was increasing, and following the first expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, there is little published historical information regarding the fate of the metis communities. Despite losing the
thread of Metis history (Me: an expulsion tends to disrupt things) at least through published sources, we found contemporary data indicating that there are now numerous self-identifying Metis living within Nova Scotia, particularly in the Southwestern portion of the province.
JanetChute-A Good Day On The Aboiteau 2004- study of the Acadian-metis-Sigogne's perceptions influenced his clerical successors-he left an imprint on the minds of the Roman Catholic metis population of southwestern NS.
The Metis in SouthWestern Nova Scotia-William Wicken Oct 2004- Mirligueche (Lunenburg) where a distinct metis community had emerged in the years after it's settlement by the Compagnie des cents-associes in 1632.
Shown by the 1708 census which records both Mi'kmaq and metis settlements at Mirligueche-26 August 1726-A Case Study in Mi'kmaq-New EnglandRelations in the Early 18th Century - Bill Wicken.
1726 seizure of a fishing vessel by metis and Mi'kmaq inhabitants of Mirligueche (Lunenburg) - Encounters with tall sails and tall tales Mi'kmaq Society 1500-1760 - William Wicken.
L'Acadie des Origines à Nos Jours- Essai de Synthèse Historique - Éditions Québec-Amérique, Jan. 1, 1981 Acadia - Michel Roy - La Have and Mirligueche - three children, one servant, several Indians and metis.
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