DNA indicates Marie (Brake) Companion was the daughter of James Brake and Susannah, linking her maternal line to the historic Mi’kmaq women of Newfoundland’s Bay of Islands.
(Updated with additional information from a family member)You may have seen the youtube video about a guy who bought an abandoned home in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland – the one where it was…
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'Friends of Qalipu' set to represent 80,000 applicants to the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation this week.
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.
Mi’kmaq Miawpukek First Nation initiates the "largest DNA genealogy study of a First Nations group in Canada.”
When Captain Jock Mitchell, Chief of Newfoundland's Mi'kmaq in 1843, discovers heinous crimes amongst his people, he travels to Harbour Breton for justice.
George Prosser of Nova Scotia brings a new family story that brings several new elements to several families in Isle Aux Morts & the Blanchard's of the Bay of Islands.
Now that the remains of two Beothuks are on the way from Europe, should they be further DNA tested - if possible?
From the small community of Mose Ambrose, Fortune Bay to the lights of Hollywood, the Jenner family has come a long way.