Liberal MP maintains Indigenous identity, despite removal from Algonquin group cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Algonquins of Ontario has removed nearly 2,000 people from its certified electorate, after an internal tribunal ruled against their asserted Algonquin ancestry last year.
A new report says there is no evidence that Thomas Lagarde dit St. Jean, a man born in the early 1800s near Montreal, was in fact Algonquin. This is significant, because more than 1,000 Canadians claim to be Algonquin because Lagarde is one of their ancestors.
Push to remove pretendians from Algonquin membership rekindled after CBC investigation cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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