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Monument to the Treaty of 1752, Shubenacadie First Nation, Nova Scotia. Treaty Day is celebrated by Nova Scotians annually on October 1 in recognition of the Treaties signed between the British Empire and the Mi'kmaq people. The first treaty was signed in 1725 after Father Rale's War.
In 1986, a year following the Simon case, Treaty Day in Nova Scotia was held for the first time on October 1, the day that the Treaty of 1752 designated for renewing friendship between the Mi’kmaq and the Crown. Today, Treaty Day is celebrated annually on the first of October to commemorates the signing of the 1760–61 Peace and Friendship ...
The month of October was chosen because, in the British–Mi'kmaq Treaty of 1752, October 1st was designated as the date on which the Mi’kmaw people would receive gifts from the Crown to "renew their friendship and submissions." This day is celebrated as Treaty Day in Nova Scotia. [2] [3]
The Treaty of 1752 was a treaty signed between the Mi'kmaq people of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia and the governor of Nova Scotia on 22 November 1752 during Father Le Loutre's War. The treaty was created by Governor Peregrine Hopson and signed by Jean-Baptiste Cope .
Alliance between the State of Massachusetts Bay and the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia. Treaty of Purandar (1776) [note 65] Between the peshwa of the Maratha people and the British East India Company, India. 1777 First Treaty of San Ildefonso: Ends disputes between Portugal and Spain over the territories of The Seven Missions and of Colonia del Sacramento.
The Mi'kmaq and their French allies conducted the Northeastern Coast Campaign (1755) in Maine and extended the campaign into Nova Scotia by attacking civilians during the raids on Lunenburg. The British captured Louisbourg in 1758 , Quebec City in 1759 and Montreal in 1760 , and the French imperial power was now destroyed in North America.
The Ferndale School District has honored Treaty Day since 2020 and will be closed Monday, Jan. 23, as a result. Lummi Nation Schools also are closed Monday. A new Point Elliott Treaty marker was ...
In February 2017, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, J.J. Grant, granted a posthumous pardon to Gabriel Sylliboy, declaring that this "helps acknowledge the struggles of the past and honour those who sought to exercise their rights." He added that it "is a process of treaty education that includes understanding and valuing what the Mi ...