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Mi' Kmaq, Mrs. Sarah Fossey1936
Between Digby and Annapolis, Nova Scotia
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Sarah (Pictou) Fossey lived on Liverpool Road and later in a house by General's Bridge. During the summer she made her way to Bayview to take part in the porpose hunt. She loved her pipe and lived to a ripe old age.3
Malti Pictou and daughter Madelaine Pictou1930
Bear River, Digby County, Nova Scotia
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Malti Pictou and daughter Madelaine Pictou Harlow. Born in 1837, Malti lived to be 103.It is said that Malti remembered when his home was a wigwam and he travelled in a birchbark canoe. Malti was known to have said his prayers in the Indian language. He would get down on his knees to pray even when he was 100 years old.
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Doctor LoneCloud1920
Bear River, Digby County, Nova Scotia
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Jerry Lonecloud was born into a Mi'Kmaq family. Known by many names, in later years he, called himself "medicine man to the Micmac nation". Dr. Lonecloud lived in the Bear River area around the turn of the 20th century.Source: Tracking Doctor Lonecloud - Showman to Legend Keeper
by Ruth Holmes Whitehead
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Bear River Mi'Kmaq1890
Bear River, Digby County, Nova Scotia
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Mi'Kmaq families out porpoise hunting.Around the turn of the century there were 160 Mi'Kmaq in Digby County. Most of the Mi'Kmaq lived on the L'sitkuk Reserve in Bear River. Living in poverty, their income derived mostly from driving logs in the spring, as guidemen, sportsmen, selling porpoise oil, deer meat, berries, axe handles and trinkets.
Info taken from Historic Digby by Mike Parker.
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Mi'Kmaq, Levi Brooks1950
Bear River, Digby County, Nova Scotia
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Mi'Kmaq Levi Brooks, swinging pevee, at Lake Lemarchant. |
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