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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