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.
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Posted: Feb 18, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 18
Ottawa city council is caught in a debate over Algonquin identity, but it didn t start with their approval of a new rural community pitched by the Algonquins of Ontario.(CBC)
In a Pembroke, Ont., boardroom in 2013, a retired judge weighed the evidence to determine whether a voyageur who claimed in the mid-1800s to be a fugitive from an English death sentence was in fact an Algonquin.
This was no random historical exercise, but a key decision that would affect the claims of hundreds of descendents hoping for a place on the Algonquins of Ontario membership list.
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