Location: Noëlville, ON, Origins: Status: Registration: Cost: History: First public event in 2005 Website seems inactive, but their FB page is being updated. # of Members: Connections: Signed “treaty” with Council of First Metis People of Canada in 2017. Contact: http://www.frenchrivermetistribe.ca Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Halifax Origins: Status: Inactive Registration: Cost: History: Incorporated in 2003, folded by 2005. One of their directors is spokesperson for 7 orgs in NS as of 2018. # of Members: Connections: Contact: Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Origins: 1999 Status: Inactive Registration: Cost: History: Posts on its website between 2002-2009. Starting in 2004, starts talking about “Acadian-Métis” on its website. Headed by Wendy Annand. Incorporated in 2004, folded in 2009. # of Members: Connections: Member of Canadian Métis Council, based in Hamilton. Members organizations also included Annapolis Valley Métis Council, Yarmouth & District Métis Council, Eldawik Métis Council (Halifax), South West Nova Scotia Métis Council, Kespu’kwitk Métis Council (Tusket), We’kopekwitk Métis Council (Truro) Contact: http://www.geocities.com:80/nsmetis/culture.html…
Location: Origins: Status: Inactive Registration: Cost: History: Inactive, was at its peak around 2007-2009. Connected with Lloyd Fournier, former “chief.” # of Members: Connections: Contact: Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Tusket, NS Origins: 2018 Status: Active Registration: Cost: History: No trace online. Only trace is in NS registry of corporate bodies. # of Members: Connections: Contact: Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Mineville, NS Origins: June 2018 Status: Active Registration: Cost: History: Founded by Greg Burke and 5 other directors in 2017. Offshoot of the Bras d’Or Métis Nation/Unama’ki Voyageur Métis Nation. # of Members: Connections: Bras d’Or Métis Nation/Unama’ki Voyageur Métis Nation. Contact: Supporting Docs Court Cases
Location: Little Dover, NS Origins: 2006 Status: Active Registration: Any Indigenous ancestor works for membership. Certified genealogy and DNA ancestry test through 23andme (no longer required as of 01/17). Cost: $75 application fee $25 per year. History: # of Members: Connections: Signed a “treaty” with Council of the First Métis People in Canada in 2018 Founding member of Nova Scotia Métis Alliance on July 13, 2018. Contact: http://www.easternshoremetis.com Supporting Docs Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquos, “Newsletter,” Summer 2018. Court Cases
Location: Yarmouth, NS Origins: Incorporated in 1999. Status: Active Registration: Claim to be Wampanoag descendants Cost: History: Has had 3 other names that are different versions of the current one. http://web.archive.org/web/20040511123455/http://www.geocities.com:80/swnmetis/ # of Members: 3,000 members in 2010 Connections: Contact: https://www.facebook.com/Kespukwitk-M%C3%A9tis-Council-326519707545262/ Supporting Docs Canada. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. 1st. sess. 41st Parliament. Evidence. November 6 2012. https://sencanada.ca/en/Content/Sen/committee/411/appa/49788-e Court Cases R. v. Babin
Location: Located in Yarmouth, NS Origins: Status: Active Registration: Any ancestry will do. “There is NO blood quantum required. We do not see ourselves as a percentage of our Native heritage, but as being 100% Metis Aboriginals and nothing else. Our members come from all walks of life and heritage – Mi’kmaq, Cree, Ojibwa, Blackfoot, Sioux or any other Native peoples. What joins our Metis people together is our commonalities, our inability to walk in either Indian or White…
Location: Yarmouth, NS. Origins: Started formal incorporation in 2008, as response to Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) “Powley Implementation Project” Status: Active Registration: “The AAMS will accept as a Regular member, any individual over the age of sixteen (16) years, who resides in Nova Scotia and beyond, whose families originated in mainland Nova Scotia, who self-identifies as Métis with an ancestral connection to a historical Acadian community, who provides genealogical proof of an ancestral connection to Acadian Métis heritage…