Picco family of Bay d’Espoir, Fortune Bay and Burin
Detailing, compiling and referencing the mysterious Picco family of Bay d'Espoir, Fortune Bay and Burin, Newfoundland.
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November 18, 2021
Will 80k Newfoundlanders get another chance for Indian Status? A massive Court Trial starting this week wants to make it happen
'Friends of Qalipu' set to represent 80,000 applicants to the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation this week.
January 15, 2023
Qalipu Applicant Group Raises 125k to Fight in Court
The Friends of Qalipu Advocacy Association raises $125000 to support legal fight for Indian Status.
April 21, 2022
Sparks fly at Qalipu Chief Debate: Watch
Qalipu Chief Candidates L-R: Brendan Mitchell, Geoff Sparkes, Peggy White and Odelle Pike The race for Qalipu First Nation Band Chief is heating up as 4 candidates descended upon the…
October 13, 2021
59,000 FNI documents given to Friends of Qalipu applicants in relation to court case: BREAKING
59,000 Federation of Newfoundland (FNI) internal documents have been handed over this week to the lawyers representing the 'Friends of Qalipu Advocacy Association.'
September 16, 2021
Federation of Newfoundland Indians loses appeal against Qalipu Applicant advocacy group
FNI under direction of Qalipu Band loses court appeal against 'Friends of Qalipu' representatives over two documents.
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May 8, 2020
Companion Matriarch added to Mi’kmaq Women mtDNA line
Marie Brake Companion of the Bay of Islands shares mtDNA with several other ancestral Mi'kmaq women.
April 29, 2020
The Thomas Bailey Oderin, Placentia Bay Ledgers of Spurrier and Co.
Recently found and released by Newfoundland genealogist and researcher Gail Murphy Taylor, the Thomas Bailey Ledgers cover a period from 1809 to at least the 1860s. The first found of…
January 19, 2020
Blatant Piracy or Innocent Desperation in Channel, Newfoundland?
When a St. Pierre vessel ran aground at Channel several local men boarded the schooner to desperately salvage what they could. Their actions that night would turn the lives of their families of Hare, Gillam, Vardy, Childs, and Strickland upside down.
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December 30, 2019
Conne River announces Beothuk-Mi’kmaq DNA research project funded by National Geographic
Mi’kmaq Miawpukek First Nation initiates the "largest DNA genealogy study of a First Nations group in Canada.”
December 16, 2019