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Should the statue of Edward Cornwallis be removed? (Poll Closed)

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  • WAYNE - 7 years ago

    CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE I CAN BUY A EDWARD CORNWALLIS STATUE . LAWN SIZE OR TABLE TOP SIZE .I HAVE OTHER FRIENDS THAT ARE INTERISTED TO .WE MUST NOT FORGET HISTORY .

  • DAVIS THE WHITE MAN - 7 years ago

    IT NOT ABOUT THE TAKING DOWN THE STATUE IT HOW FAR THEY CAN PUSH NOVA SCOTIA BACK IN TIME TO 1600 -1749 THEY ARE TAKER AND WE GIVERS THE TAKER MUST GO ON IN TIME THE PAS IS THE PAS

  • Alain Lamarche - 7 years ago

    Even though it was very wrong what happened in our history, we should not actually forget the past. Here is an idea that would be perfect for all views and for the respect of the monument: there should be installed a extra plate that would explain the history and events of this founder possibly very close to the existing statue and also the federal government could ... create its own commemorative statue or sculpture in that park to tell future generations of what happened. Young people often forget the difficulties and sacrifices of their ancestors and the federal and provincial governments could inject money in secondary statue or sculpture or monument that expresses the less glorious past so let's no forget. We have so little art and public sculptures in this country also so let's keep this if possible.

  • JACK - 7 years ago

    THIS IS SO STUPID FIGHTING OVER EDWARD CORNWALLES STATUE .LET THE FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE GET THERE OWN EDWARD CORNWALLES STATUE BETTER STILL WE WILL PAY FOR IT. MAYBE TWO IT THEY ARE GOOD

  • Annie St. Claire Francois - 7 years ago

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    I say you are a "big liar" there BIG SAUSAGE [synonymous for limp little dick, e'e]. It was either you or some other historic illiterate too stupid or too scared like you to say your real name that you are quoting. Not Cornwallis.

    Prove me wrong jujijij. Quote me a "primary" source or two.

    And please don't say Wikipedia and prove to the world you are a "little" sausage.

    You are obviously not Mi'kmaq jujijij. Lnuk are more intelligent.

    I say you are kjitapatat.

    While we are at it, I'd like to see the "primary" source for the "suit made out of native babies skin" quote, from "anonymous", if there is one, which I personally doubt. More bull shit. More kjitapatatk.

    Cornwallis was a looser. On his good days he was just a rich spoiled brat and on his bad days he was too arrogant and stupid to qualify as some dark criminal mind. Why the pathetic push to make him more than he was. Don't Lnuk have more important matters to attend to?

    Solution: There is a whole bunch of pregnant dogs out there that just need to get laid.

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  • BIG SAUSAGE - 7 years ago

    IT IS MR EDWARD CORNWALLIS THAT SAID WET THEIRS LIPS AND STICK THEM TO THE WALL

  • Isaac Paul - 7 years ago

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    BREAKING NEWS

    Apple Suzanne Patles and "followers" plan a "peaceful" betrayal of Mi'kmaq people on July 15th. They will take their frustrations out on an insignificant piece of public art because they lack the courage to challenge government and / or the police on more important issues. Alton Gas comes to mind.

    Removal of or damage to the Cornwallis statue can, and likely will, constitute a substantial and needless loss for Mi'kmaw First Nation relationship with our non-native neighbours. All to stroke the ego of some apples.

    Mi'kmaq want our friends and neighbours to know the actions of these antagonists are those of the weak and do not represent the true and strong among Lnuk.

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  • kmac - 7 years ago

    People who don't get it should listen to this speech by the mayor of New Orleans, on his decision to remove Confederate monuments from the city's core. It's a long speech but it's worth it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/full-speech-mitch-landrieu-addresses-removal-of-confederate-statues/2017/05/31/cbc3b3a2-4618-11e7-8de1-cec59a9bf4b1_video.html

  • Isaac Paul - 7 years ago

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    The apples and their supporters who are advocating the forceful removal of the Cornwallis Statue this weekend do not have the right to say they are acting on behalf of Mi'kmaq. Shame is on them. This is not Mi'kmaw way. They are weak. They do not represent the strong among Mi'kmaq Nation.

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  • pierre L'kimu - 7 years ago

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    Tape'tank,

    While I am among the first to agree this statue of a pseudo famous nobody is not worth all the time and effort it is getting and personally could care less whether it stays or goes, I am equally astounded by the lazy, misinformed, and uneducated rant of the latest person commenting on Mi'kmaq culture and history on this site.

    The British defeated the French. The British "did not defeat" Mi'kmaq. Mi'kmaq were handing the British their asses on a platter. So after the fall of Quebec, the British courted the Mi'kmaq to make peace and the British wisely then signed nation to nation treaties with Mi'kmaq who equally wisely did not cede any land. My sources being the contemporary British records of the time, assuming they carried an element of truth. Mi'kmaq were winning the "Micmac / Anglo War", that is why the British ceded them better treaties than any other First Nation in North America. The Supreme Court of Canada has already recognized this. But apparently there are people in and about here that believe they are smarter and know more than the top Justices in Canada. I am point blank telling those of you that think this that you are not and do not.

    Mi'kmaq allowed the European settlement of their land and kept their end of the Treaties. Had they not, it is more than fair to say a lot of British settlers would never have lived to make descendants.

    Outside of a few new agers who have nothing else to do with their lives, nobody really gives a flying fiddle about a statue of Cornwallis one way or the other. The Cornwallis statue fuss is just a government fostered media promoted event designed to distract Mi'kmaq and well meaning non-native folk from more important matters. The real issue is the Treaties and the failure of the descendants of the first Europeans to keep their ancestor's word and honor the treaties. The Treaties were a lease for the Europeans to stay here. Well its about time the rent got paid.

    Speaking of treaties. The Provincial Government's approval of the Aton Gas natural gas storage and their end game to store their toxic waste from fracking exploration in salt caverns etched out into by polluting the Shubenacadie River and exposing this hazardous waste to unexplored underground aquifers and sources of most of rural Nova Scotia's drinking water is something that should be of concern to all Nova Scotians, native an non-native alike. This is a treaty issue. It took two sides to sign the treaties. We are all Treaty people.

    Typical Trump style move on the part of our government and media. Get everybody focusing on a old chunk of bronze representing an historically insignificant personality. While a multi-national oil giant destroys our water table for future generations of our children.

    Real people will stand with the Alton area farmers and the neighboring Mi'kmaq ... and ignore the small stuff ... ie ... a statue of Cornwallis

    Nmu'ltes app

    Pierre L'kimu

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  • Anonymous - 7 years ago

    I bet if this was an 'Adolf Hitler' statue, it would of been gone years ago. That was Caucasian against Caucasian. Against Mi'kmaw doesn't mean nothing to some people. Like that Tadodaho, saying that stuff like he understands what goes on even today. He only knows what is in history books, not what is told through the history of the natives. We have verbal teachings, verbal history. Did you know there is a suit made out of native babies skin. Did you know that the waqam belts that have native history written in shells and rocks, some are not even in native hands. They are owned by people that want pretty little things and not for the story it will share. People need to educate themselves. Learn about each other's cultures, languages, and history.

  • JOE - 7 years ago

    DON'T GO WHITE MAN WHO GOING TO PAY ALL THE TAXES

  • Tadodaho - 7 years ago

    Will these social justice warriors ever start reading history or remain completely ignorant of history and really drive this professional perpetual "poor me" victimhood into the ground!?! The Mic Mac are guilty of their own acts of genocide. They sided with the French in the wars back then against the British. Too bad so sad your ancestors side lost! boo hoo. So in all fairness if we tear down all British history ok fine lets tear down all history even that of the Mic Mac and start fresh. The Mic Mac themselves are guilty of genocide against innocent civilians. Rape, murder and yes scalping European refugees well before Cornwallis called for scalping in response. It was a different time back then every side is guilty of terrible acts. Even the Mic Mac fought in wars against their own neighbors the Iroquois. Rape, killing of fellow tribes.

    It's time for the whiners to stop blaming everything on the past and start looking toward the future. Let all our ancestors take up these problems in the after life. The natives fought all kinds of wars against themselves as well. Blood feuds that lasted centuries they couldn't unite against the European refugees that build laid the foundation for what we now know as Canada today. A free country!

    Without the help of native tribes such as the Shawnee and their brave leader Tecumseh the British would have lost Canada in the American invasion of the war of 1812. However without the British in Canada during the war of 1812 the Natives would have been conquered in. And Donald Trump would be your president today!

    So get your heads out of your asses and stop whining over events that happened two centuries ago! The Seven years war was a world war in and of itself. The Mic Mac backed the losing side, committed their own acts of genocide against European refugees and lost. Get the fuck over it and start looking toward the future of our great country while learning from our past instead of wanting to erase it!

    Without Britain defending Canada in the Seven Years War, American Revolution and the War of 1812 we would all be Americans! Your SJW heads would explode if Trump was your president today.

  • pierre L'kimu - 7 years ago

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    Taliaq

    The laziness, misinformation, and lack of education on Mi'kmaw culture and history displayed in the two larger entries to the comment section is astounding. Neither author has the right to represent or disparage Lnuk. Both are obviously using Mi'kmaq to farther their own personal agendas and care not about squandering all the hard earned good will Mi'kmaq have achieved in recent years with the non native communities. These comments are selfish and self serving to say the least. They do not represent Mi'kmaq. They are not Lnuk. They are kluskapewin.

    Fake news may be the "in thing" these days, but continuously repeating a lie does not make it the truth. That is the "white way" to behave. Bad pun intended. That is how wenj'su'n acts and reacts.

    Nmu'ltes app

    Pierre L'kimu

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  • Rebecca - 7 years ago

    I am positive there are people trolling this poll hard, because you can vote more than once. So I wouldn't consider it accurate at all.

  • dristine henderson - 7 years ago

    there were 3 scalping laws in ns

    one by governor lawerance is still on books!

    help suport peace and friendship with mikmaq residents who choose to live out of racial segregation ( ie off reservation)

    git rid of this staute promoting the celebration of a time when genoside was more overt.

    if this was a statue of a slave trader we would not need commities to debate the reasons why.

    segragation is not history its still exists

    currently threw the indian act indegenous groups do not even get to controle the membership of their own nations this includes the mikmaw whos land we occupy.

    does germany get to say who can be aulstrailian by the basis of their blood quantum? No thats ovbously

    the mikmaq are a nation and they deserve true nation to nation solverignty.

    how long are we going to let the indian act commit slow genioside threw blood quantum?

    native people are not dogs to which must accompany a pedigree. that is racist!

    1951 gave natives human rights my grandmother was preg with my father at that time she did not have any human rights.

    could not even vote unless you gave up your "pedagree" untill 45 years ago.

    stop sending the message that we as canadians celebrate this kind of stuff... !

    get rid of the statue
    n take the scalping law from general lawerance off the books as well

    get your act together canada.

    Kanata a mikmaq word that means place of quality flints... this is not a british colony anymore.

    BNA sent the mikmaq blankets covered with smallpox.

    think about and remember the genoside that happened.. and realize that the indian act is still very much aimed at perpetuating that to this day. look up treaty 1752 ... cornwallis failed at peackeeping with the mikmaq and was litterally let go of his position.... why would you even want to celebrate that..?

    make peace not war

    stop racisim and stick up for marginalized and abused people.

    tear down cornwallis now!!!

    learn your history canada so you can be proud to be canadia again.

  • Not tom - 7 years ago

    Tom and The man are racist

  • tom - 7 years ago

    go home white man we don't need you anymore

  • wikepedia - 7 years ago

    Raid on Dartmouth (1749)
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    Not to be confused with Raid on Dartmouth (1751).
    Raid on Dartmouth (1749)
    Part of Father Le Loutre’s War

    Plaque to Raid on Dartmouth (1749) and the blockhouse that was built in response (1750), Dartmouth Heritage Museum
    DateSeptember 30, 1749
    LocationDartmouth, Nova Scotia
    ResultMi’kmaq victory
    Belligerents
    Mi'kmaq militia
    Acadian militia British America
    Commanders and leaders
    Major Ezekiel Gilman[1]
    Strength
    40 Mi'kmaq6 British
    Casualties and losses
    3 killed4 killed, 2 wounded
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    Father Le Loutre’s War
    Dartmouth (1749) Grand Pre St. Croix Chignecto (1750) 1st Northeast Coast Dartmouth (1751) Country Harbour Jeddore 2nd Northeast Coast Chignecto (1755)
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    The Raid on Dartmouth (1749) occurred during Father Le Loutre’s War on September 30, 1749 when a Mi’kmaq militia from Chignecto raided Major Ezekiel Gilman's sawmill at present-day Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, killing four workers and wounding two. This raid was one of seven the Wabanaki Confederacy and Acadians would conduct against the settlement during the war.
    Contents  [hide] 
    1Historical context
    2Raid
    3Consequence
    4Controversy
    5See also
    6References
    Historical context[edit]
    Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710, Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi'kmaq. Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on June 21, 1749.[2]
    By the time Cornwallis had arrived in Halifax, there was a long history of the Wabanaki Confederacy (which included the Mi'kmaq) killing British civilians along the New England/ Acadia border in Maine (See the Northeast Coast Campaigns 1688, 1703, 1723, 1724, 1745, 1746, 1747).[3]
    After establishing an initial settlement in Halifax in the summer of 1749, it was imperative that Governor Edward Cornwallis make peace with the Native peoples of the province before further colonization could proceed. On 15 August, Governor Cornwallis and members of his Council met with representatives of the Penobscott, Naridgwalk, St. John, Cape Sable and other tribes aboard HMS Beaufort in Halifax Harbour. They agreed to sign a redrafted treaty of 1725 that would be ratified at a later date. [4]
    Governor Cornwallis was informed in August that two vessels were attacked by the Indians at Canso whereby "three Englishmen and seven Indians were killed." Council believed the attack had been orchestrated by an Abbe Le Loutre. [5]
    Prior to this incident, the priest had written the following to the minister of marine in France: "As we cannot openly expose the English ventures, I think that we cannot do better than to incite the indians to continue warring on the English; my plan is to persuade the Indians to send word to the English that they will not permit new settlements to be made in Acadia. . . I shall do my best

  • the man - 7 years ago

    DUM WHITEMAN

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